Kathy quoted Berners-Lees saying:
"An intriguing possibility, given a large hypertext database with typed
links, is that it allows some degree of automatic analysis [ . . . ] Imagine
making a large three-dimensional model, with people represented by little
spheres, and strings between people who have something in common at work.
Now imaging picking up the structure and shaking it, until you make some
sense of the tangle: Perhaps you see tightly knit groups in some places, and
in some places weak areas of communication spanned by only a few people.
Perhaps a linked information system will allow us to see the real structure
of the organization in which we work."
not exactly the same thing but interest for the same reasons, have you seen
lumeta's work on mapping the web based on the path taken by a data packets
as they travel from network to network branching at each router or switch
along the way,
http://www.lumeta.com/mapping.html
data representation is quite fascinating, & colourful graphs are cool ;)
cheers,
Sol.
