Re: [ba-unrev-talk] More on backlinks
At 11:04 AM 5/17/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/5/16/152614/482
>"The idea for this article came about the other day while I was viewing
>some of the recent posts on drop.org. I followed a link to an article,
>'Blogspace Under the Microscope', on the O'Reilly Network. The author was
>talking about a 'mutation' and the next 'phenomenon' in weblogging. He was
>referring to 'backlinks' - links which point back to the referring web
>page - which the web site Disenchanted has been using for about a year.
>The article consisted of very few links and no historical or background
>information to the idea of 'backlinks' and implies that Disenchanted
>invented this idea; which is dismissed by an accompanying article on
>Disenchanted. "
>
>More at http://www.foresight.org/WebEnhance/backlinks.news.html
>which is part of the http://www.foresight.org/WebEnhance/enhance.html
>WebEnhance project. Pretty old stuff there. (01)
It should be noted that these folks http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/LEARNWEB.html
have been advocating using Hebbian learning with links as a means of
"learning" what's relevant. Hebbian learning is a mechanism
http://www.nd.com/definitions/hebbian.htm that tweaks "weights" on links:
the more a link is active, the stronger its weight becomes. That idea has
been modified over time to "competitive" and "differential"
versions. Differential applies a "time" window such that, if someone uses
Link A to reach B, and someone else uses Link A to reach B, and that
happens within the window, then weight of Link A is enhance, otherwise
nothing happens to the weight. (02)
Imagine what would happen during a "slashdot" event! You might never get
rid of that link! (03)