the structure of the internet has never been about where the ditches and ruts are dug although the world needs ditch diggers too it s a simple inductive concept you are you and see the world as such you plus NUMBER degree of separation is a new you all this stuff about scale free internets viruses sex and money is silly scale free statistically indistinguishable models really means internet scale as rediscovered by social networks people research has shown that the network of human sexual partners seems to be scale free too i tend to prefer the harvard business review to the economist as they tend to spend less time writing about who s sleeping with whom and come up with real statistical models greg lies damn lies and statistics russell turpin wrote not exactly new bits but i enjoyed seeing the economist pick up on the similarity between computer and social networks URL _________________________________________________________________ chat with friends online try msn messenger URL gregory alan bolcer cto work NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER gbolcer at URL URL endeavors technology inc cell NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER 