I was happy to discover that this blog has a Technorati Authority of 401! As the score runs from 1 (lowest) to 1000 (highest), I am quite pleased with that. So what is this Authority?

A couple of very interesting research papers that I came across recently...both are looking at cross sections of complex data systems and how they interact and operate. One of these is old (in technology terms), from 1998 and describes the emergence of Google;

Hope to go to this: