I've just been passed a couple of links to the code-swarm system. It's a method a visualising the development process of a software project – and it's pretty amazing looking! What this system does is use the commit process (aka check-in) of software development to track the additions to a software project. This is where a developer takes a copy from the central control one of the source files and adds to it, then places it back into the repository.

We are used to seeing family trees in biology.  For example this is the human family tree:

I am currently reading Digital Biology by Peter J Bentley.

Here's a flavour of it..  This is how he justifies the application of evolution to areas outside its traditional biological role;

Listened to a very interesting talk by Ray Kurzweil where has says that biology is fundamentally an information process.

This is an interesting interview with Niles Eldredge of the City University of New York.  It's a very good account of looking at both the parallels and the differences between biological evolution and the idea of cultural and/or technological evolution.  First off he takes on the issue that in biological evolution we have DNA linking and encoding the information from one generation to the next:

There is an interesting article in the current issue of New Scientist, an essay by W.Brian Arthur on his theory of technological evolution;

A final comment on an interesting story on the growth rate of wikipedia caught my eye;