11.12.03

John Titor On Wheels!

The John Titor story has now popped up in a BMX discussion forum. Read the thread and decide for yourself if these guys wear helmets.

I'm curious about how often specialist forums get invaded by these kinds of off-topic ideas, and more generally about the symbiosis between blogs and discussion boards. My own sense (based on my log files) is that the latter have a ton more readers, but I don't know where to find hard data.

There's a thousand (really pompous) PhD dissertations waiting to happen in the space connecting IRC, blogs, email, mailing lists, discussion boards, and the commercial Web. Bioinformatics tends to be about using computational techniques to model real-world ecosystems and analyze genomes. I wonder if any biologists are going in the other direction, and using traditional techniques to study the ecosystems that form online?

If you know of such efforts, drop me a line.

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