So networks tend to have power centers, as explained in this reading. I thought about this idea last week, that although networks have many different parts and links, they usually form around, or many of them link back to common places. This is because networks form by power law. All of our blogs link to different things, but they all link to/ from one bigger blog called ‘networked media’ as well, and would not be able to hold a strong network on their own, as the ‘networked media’ blog is the thing that connects many of them, by providing common ideas and interests, as well as hyperlinks to all of our blogs. I told you guys, in this blog post. I knew it.

This also suggests that these networks are not randomly formed, neither is the formation of the internet itself. The idea of atoms being like a community threw me off a bit though. I studied Chemistry in VCE and never once did I ever picture them like that… Except for one video we watched where the atoms all had houses, friends and personalities… yeah that was weird.