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Frank Paynter points us to an article (in PDF) in which Valdis Krebs applies what he knows about mapping social networks to mapping the terrorist cell responsible for 9/11. The key illustration is on Valdis’ site here.

I mentioned Teilhard de Chardin’s “noosphere” when commenting on Akma‘s blogthread-inspiring idea that the Web might be usefully compared to the mind. I heard from Trevor Bechtel, Assistant Dean at the Loyola grad school:

In your deliberations about the web and the brain you should know that Jennifer Cobb Kreisberg wrote an article in WIRED in 1995 on just this subject. The article compares Teilhard de Chardin’s thoughts about the noosphere to the rise of new information technologies.

I’m doing a monthly column now for The O’Reilly Network entitled, aptly enough, Megnut. You can read the first one here on “Attendee-Centered Conference Design” aka My Observations from the SXSW Interactive Festival last week in Austin TX.

Gary Lawrence Murphy has written a spirited reply to Dave Webb’s article “Blogging a Dead Horse.”

Ryan Ireland has moved his always enjoyable blog, Becoming. (The new host, Movable Type, can suck in all your previous Blogger entries if you move from here to there.)

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