[Sig-bwp] The Name(s) for The Digital Universe?

[Emma Tonkin]

The multiverse comes to mind

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse

Alternatively, meta-universe or metaverse.

Incidentally, your recent question regarding crystals was particularly 
interesting (and particularly relevant on Valentine's Day!):

> It has occurred to me that Online Social Networking [
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service ] may be envisioned 
> as Crystals [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystals ]

Just the other day, we generated a graph of a certain blog community 
network. The first comment: 'That looks just like Buckminster Fullerine'. 
Very large graphs usually don't come out looking particularly crystalline, 
but it is in the nature of small networks of regular link structure that 
they produce a pseudo-crystalline structure. However, many social networks 
contain a more Zipfian density distribution (ie a few very popular blogs 
and a huge number of decreasingly popular blogs, for example), which 
produces a less regular set of vertices...

Regards

Em Tonkin



On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Gerry Mckiernan wrote:

> ***APOLOGIES FOR RECEIPT OF DUPLICATE POSTINGS***
>
> Colleagues/
>
> I am interested in knowing if there is A Name for The Digital Universe, 
> by which I mean All **Things** That Exist (or Might Exist in The Future) 
> via the Internet / Web / Networks.
>
> By Things I Mean: Text /  Audio  / Video / Online Social Networks / Online Communities / Objects / Etc.
>
> I am particularly interested in Any And All Efforts That Have Created An All-Inclusive Digital Environment / World / Space/ Place / Etc.
>
> Thanks for Considering
>
> /Gerry
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> Gerry McKiernan
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