Re: <nettime> WiReD: 'infectious blogs'

[<wade {AT} thefrictioninstitute.org>]

I thought this was great coming from WiReD:

>The most-read webloggers aren't necessarily the ones with the most
>original ideas, say researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs....

>"There is a lot of speculation that really important people are highly
>connected, but really, we wonder if the highly connected people just
>listen to the important people," said Lada Adamic, one of the four
>researchers working on the project.

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