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Thought this was interesting: Digital Swarm Behavior

In general, I keep waiting for a new set of paradigms for “everyone to be talking about” to emerge.

The candidates I hear about are:

• “social graph”, as in “facebook rules the social graph”
• “big data” – alright, this one is pretty much a common phrase by now
• “internet scale” – common in tech circles, but I think will make a jump into mainstream reporting soon

I also liked how the article was written, especially when compared to something like Is Your Enterprise Socially-Networked or Just Your Employees which was nearly incomprehensible, and pretty boring when actually parsed.

The latter was just… lame. And what’s up with capitalizing all Your Words In A Title?

ps. I am not sure what it is today with all the “” this and CAP that for me. apologies.

Related articles

• Book Review: The Smart Swarm (businesspundit.com)

“Beginning Oct. 15, a monthlong discussion of “War and Peace” will appear in the online edition of The Times. The panelists will include Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times; Stephen Kotkin, the director of Russian and Eurasian studies at Princeton University; and Francine Prose and Liesl Schillinger, both frequent contributors to the Book Review. The moderator will be Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of the Book Review. Readers can find the discussion at nytimes.com/books.”

from NYTimes Book Section

I suppose it would be too much to expect the times to publish the discussion as an RSS feed.

Update: There is, actually, an RSS feed for the NYT Reading Room blog, but the Times still is not ready to actually put full posts into RSS, just the abstracts.