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In the article from WolrdChanging Blog it talks about Fractal Democracy.

small numbers of people, let’s say somewhere around 7 form the base cell of the organisation. Out of these, the group agrees on who represents their group will the best, and these selected persons form together with others who are selected to form the same kind of grouping, and these people then select one out of their group which goes up to the next level, where the same thing happens again. This method of distributing the will of the people is guaranteed to be totally representative, because it is the collective decision which ultimately feeds up to the top level, which irons out all the kinks.

What’s the 80/20 rule? Looking at the income distribution, we can find the existence of power law distribution. We all understand the idea of Pareto’s law of economics, which emerges from his understanding of 80% of the Italy land, was owned by only 20% of the population. The 80/20 rule then later emerges into different areas. Examples like, 80% of profits are produced by only 20% of the employees. 80% of customer service problems are created by only 20% of consumers. It might be hard to see the relation between the 80/20 law and power law in these examples, but we can clearly understand power law if we think about 80% of the money is made by 20% of the population. There are only very few rich people out there (We don’t have 10 Bill Gates or Mr. Trump running …

The idea of hub exists not only in the social network; moreover, it can be considered in an online space. Even though it is suggested by Barabasi that hub is nautrally formed, the question of “can we create hub?” emerged in my mind.

As I previously suggested, I have noticed the “key person” or the connector in a social context where a person that connects different clusters together. To think of the idea of hub in a cyberspace context, we can consider yahoo as a hub because there are so many page pointed to yahoo. If we were to create a person as a connector in a society, we would have to push the person to a very social level. (The example of social climbers who try to meet all different people all the time can be considered a creation of …

A real network is usually governed by the laws of growth and preferential attachment. The assumption of a network from Erdo and Renyi does not perfectly describe how real networks work. Their assumption describe a fixed number of nodes and all the nodes are equivalent so they are linked randomly to each other. If we only have a fixed number of nodes we’ll end up wit a static network. In real network, it is dynamic because there is always growth. New nodes are added into the network from time to time. This step underscores the fact that networks are assembled one node at a time. When new nodes are added in, they do not just link to any other random nodes. The nodes will more likely connect to the one that has more connected node. It also brings up the …