{"id":6253,"date":"2005-03-01T22:31:28","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T22:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/01\/tulip-economy-a\/"},"modified":"2005-03-01T22:31:28","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T22:31:28","slug":"tulip-economy-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/01\/tulip-economy-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulip Economy and Fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> 3<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>

Last week, when I ran across Henry Farrell’s
\n
\nCrooked Timber entry on flogrolling<\/a>, I was also reading from Watts’
\n
\nSix Degrees<\/a><\/i> and Barabasi’s
\n
\nLinked<\/a><\/i>.  Flogrolling, as I understand it from the
\n
\nfew<\/a>
\n
\nplaces<\/a> I could find it in recent circulation, names the aggressive efforts
\nto publicize or promote links, thereby elevating the rate of emergence of newer
\nbloggers.  From Farrell’s entry and the comments following it, the
\ndiscussion seems to center on the problem of spamming entries to
\n
\nTechnorati<\/a> and the resulting skew altering an entry’s popularity or
\n"interestingness" (a term which Farrell acknowledges as "ugly"). 
\nFlogrolling potentially circumvents more authentic geneses of interest in
\nsmall-world networks, such as those networks constituting the blogosphere. It
\nassumes, with links as a basic unit of exchange, rank is sharable; it can be
\npassed from one high-ranking blog to another through simple linking, even if
\nsuch linking is profit-motivated.  Consequently, the new weblog stands on
\nthe shoulders and enjoys a fleeting, deceptive mobility.  Yes?<\/p>\n

Although Barabasi doesn’t write directly
\nabout weblogs, a few principles from his research seem to apply.  Foremost, Barabasi suggests that scale-free networks
\n(as distinguished from random networks) should be understood in terms of growth and preferential attachment.  Their busy edges and volatile topologies present us with just a few defining premises–premises which, as I understand them, may or may not apply neatly to the blogosphere or, more specifically, the network(s) of politically-interested blogs and bloggers.  In a scale-free network (which is a theoretical abstraction, Watts tells us…no network can be both an object of study and purely scale-free), we might guess that the earliest-established nodes (some turned hubs) occupy a privileged position, near the tall margin of the power law graph (in fairness, Farrell and Drezner speculate that the politically-interested blogosphere follows a
\n
\nlognormal distribution<\/a>, rather than a power law).  But when we factor
\nin competitiveness–the ongoing "up-for-grabs" nature of links–network fitness intervenes, bucking the assumption that the first-comers hold a protected position of privilege in the network.  Fitness addresses the consequence of newly adjoining nodes, latecomers who inject new energy to the network, often with the potential of cascading beyond the proximal nodes and, thereby, imparting other effects.  Barabasi
\ndiscusses this phenomenon in terms of Einstein-Bose condensations and Bose
\ngases, and although my few notes here are mostly just a summary of Barabasi’s
\nmiddle chapters, some of his physics references are more scientific than I can
\nwrite through with confidence just yet.<\/p>\n

I’d like to return to the idea of "authentic geneses of interest."  How
\ndo we find weblogs we’re interested in or, more specifically, entries we’re
\ninterested in?  If we accept that ordinary links (rather than trackbacks)
\nare the dominant currency unit in the blogosphere, then I suppose it follows
\nreasonably that futzing with the genuine link as a gesture of interest and
\nreplacing it, instead, with the flogrolled link–a paid-for gesture meant to
\nby-pass the economic order, results in economic disturbance. And although this
\nquasi-counterfeiting might initially appear in the form of robust new
\naccelerations in traffic for newcomers exploiting such a system, I tend to think
\nthat the net effect will be negligible. Maybe that’s too strong a way to put it. 
\nBut as I read it alongside Watts’ discussion of tulip economies (196)–the
\nhigh-hopes bubbles bursting over The Netherlands following the spark-fizzle of
\nbulb sales, I had the impression that flogrolling will settle out as one of the
\nlesser disturbances in the blogosphere. Just how great is the disturbance? 
\nHow long will it elevate low-interest (or artificially trafficked) sites into
\nlofty standing before those sites must self-sustain or before the network’s
\nfitness coefficient stabilizes again?  It’s just a hypothesis, really, but
\nthe selective paths of specific readers who follow links according to interest
\nor reputation will restore the regular patterns.  Granted, much of this
\ndoes little to account for the different ways we trace paths of interest across
\nthe various small-world networks of the blogosphere.  Whether by RSS,
\nTechnorati searches, trackbacks, chains of blogrolls, conventional links and so
\non–distinctions in how our interestedness is enacted when reading across the
\nblogosphere most definitely bears on these tentative few ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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