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Stephen Downes

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What is surprising is not that the web self-organizes - human creations have been doing that for millennia - but rather that it self-organizes in such a way that we can retrieve the resulting structure. "Solely by analyzing the link structure of the web (the pattern of hypertext links between pages), communities of highly related information can be identified." Cool.

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