Algorithm
Identifies Top Ten Technology News Trend Setters
But the
process of selecting trend setters raises as many questions as it answers
One of the
interesting features of modern news coverage is the way that stories spread across
the web. Many research teams have attempted to model this process, likening it
among other things, to the spread of flu, fashions and forest fires.
One of the
fundamental insights that these studies have produced is why these phenomenon
spread in similar ways. These phenomenon do not share similar physical
properties--a flu virus is not much like a burning leaf or a designer
dress.
What these
things have in common is the networks on which they spread. It is their
environment and the way it is linked together that determines how these events
cascade.
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