Comments on: Attentional Ecology: Blogs Are The Gills of The Web http://cluster.othermaps.com/attentional-ecology-blogs-gills-of-the-web mediated space etc. Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:49:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nic http://cluster.othermaps.com/attentional-ecology-blogs-gills-of-the-web/comment-page-1#comment-7663 Nic Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:21:39 +0000 http://cluster.othermaps.com/blogs-gills-of-the-web#comment-7663 I was thinking along the same lines as the commenter above - I think you'd be interested in 'The Black Swan' by Nasim Nicholas Taleb - it looks at the problems of prediction in standard economic models - and how Risk managers singularly fail to predict catastrophic market failures. Taleb works directly with Benoit Mandelbrot - and looks at how fractal patterns tend to have a closer mathematical affinity to genuine market fluctuations - as opposed to 'bell-curve' statistics which ignore the possibility of 'outside' events. I was thinking along the same lines as the commenter above – I think you’d be interested in ‘The Black Swan’ by Nasim Nicholas Taleb – it looks at the problems of prediction in standard economic models – and how Risk managers singularly fail to predict catastrophic market failures. Taleb works directly with Benoit Mandelbrot – and looks at how fractal patterns tend to have a closer mathematical affinity to genuine market fluctuations – as opposed to ‘bell-curve’ statistics which ignore the possibility of ‘outside’ events.

]]> By: jon http://cluster.othermaps.com/attentional-ecology-blogs-gills-of-the-web/comment-page-1#comment-6405 jon Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:19:47 +0000 http://cluster.othermaps.com/blogs-gills-of-the-web#comment-6405 Like the gills idea and the extended surface of the lungs metaphor. For some reason this reminds me of Mandelbrot sets and their infinite surfaces (as best shown in the pictures of them). The blogoshpere as a fractal structure? Do the maths on that one! Like the gills idea and the extended surface of the lungs metaphor.

For some reason this reminds me of Mandelbrot sets and their infinite surfaces (as best shown in the pictures of them). The blogoshpere as a fractal structure? Do the maths on that one!

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