I am thinking that it must be a bad weekend for servers or there is a huge attack on internet that brought down lots of nodes. It's weird enough that kaon is down and now the other link I want to introduce is down too. TheBrain is a network visualization tool. It can map the physical network including printers. It can also map a virtual network with all the users connected. However, TheBrain is more of a network management software.
I guess it would be useful to look at. TheBrain functions differently. I actually searched somewhere along the line of ontology to find out about this site. I think this is where internet toplogiest's theories can be applied into real world situations. (I am not implying that internet is not real world.) By studying the system/network/interconnectivity of the internet, can we perhaps apply those things we learned into other network systems, for example, physical network? management network?
I also searched online for KAON, and found this visualizer plug-in that used the KAON OI-modeler module as part of its development.
I am also digesting the University of Notre Dame Physics Department that studies self-organized networks that is directed by Barabasi. more notes on mapping
