The Wisdom and/or Madness of Crowds
The latest explainer/game from Nicky Case is an absolutely brilliant interactive piece on small world networks.
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Web science a new frontier - Find Events - The Royal Society
This looks like being a thoroughly excellent event at The Royal Society, featuring Tim Berners-Lee and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi.
Six Degrees of Black Sabbath #6dobs
An extremely addictive bit of fun with small world network theory as applied to music.
Six Degrees of Wikipedia
Six degrees of separation as applied to Wikipedia articles. Read on to find the Kevin Bacon of Wikipedia pages.
Disorderly genius: How chaos drives the brain - life - 29 June 2009 - New Scientist
It turns out that the brain is a scale-free small-world network in a state of self-organised criticality. Just like the internet.
Is the Tipping Point Toast? -- Duncan Watts -- Trendsetting
Duncan Watts works at Yahoo Research? I had no idea! Ironically, it was Gladwell's Tipping Point that first led me to Watts' work.
Twitter Blocks
A lovely visual of contacts of your Twitter contacts, exploring those six degrees.
Co-evolution of neocortex size, group size and language in humans
The Dunbar number gets bandied about a lot in conversations about social networks these days. Here's the original paper that shows the research behind the oft-misused term.