Web 2.0 and Semantic Web for Bioinformatics

the tipping point… (and we’re going live again)

Posted in web 2.0 by agbiotec on August 26, 2009

I have been always amazed by the dynamics of the internet… a complex network, similar to the pathways in a living cell, power grids and social webs. It can explode, shrink, change dynamic, all by following purely non-linear dynamics.

A good example of this, is what happened yesterday to this blog… inactive for the past 3 months since I’ve started my new job, it just got 5000+ reads in the past couple of days, as the stats for WordPress’ dashboard show below:

All these reads went to a post from back in May, tittled  software jobs, PhDs and “over-qualification”.

Why did that happen ? By Googling around a bit, I’ve found that a Reddit power-user, BioGeek, posted a link to this post of mine. A lot of commentary followed up on Reddit and also many comments on the original post here on WordPress.

So I guess it all about riding on the shoulders of giants… In any case, this traffic to this blog lifted my spirit, and I decided to start posting to it again after a long absense.

Stay tuned for the updates, which will include knowledge, tips and tricks, opinions and trends, from the new thought space I’ve submerged myself too for the past 3 months; having to do with cloud computing, science as a service, big data and Hadoop, and everything distributed.

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  1. marlena said, on August 27, 2009 at 7:59 am

    So glad you are back! You made some really great posts. I figured you’d probably gotten hired somewhere. Would be nice to know where, if you feel like sharing.

    I kept going on my blog because I saw you writing great stuff on your blog. Thx 4 inspiration n stuff ;o)

  2. xzhou said, on August 27, 2009 at 1:17 pm

    I also shared your post with my friends and we had a serious discussion, which also drove them to your blog :)

    Could this be underlining a mechanism of positive feedback of internet activity? Potential interested readers are driven at exponential speed to your blog by a few agents (like me?). Perhaps another logistic model…

    I’m also in the process of looking for postdoc positions in bioinformatics. That’s why I get to know your blog. Good work! Keep going. Hope to communicate with you.


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