I'm speaking at an event next week at the PM Studio in Bristol on Wed 16th at 4pm and the event is free!

Software Paleontology - Tomas Rawlings (Fluffy Logic & DCRC PhD Student)
Tomas is on a GWR PhD scholarship applying evolutionary theory to peer to peer networks. As part of this research Tomas has developed a unique methodology of ‘software paleontology’ comparing the change logs of P2P software versions to the fossil records of  biological evolution.

I had an interesting email discussion with Ernesto (the Editor-in-Chief of TorrentFreak) about my last post on the blog and thought I'd reproduce some of it here (with his permission of course!)...

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

There is an interesting post on the blog Why Evolution in True - interesting because it points to an interesting idea for those of us looking to biology for tools in other realms (such as media in my case aka media ecology).  First here is a quote from the post;