Hi Danny > ... another one the name of which escapes me - something like Vultures? (pretty sure it isn't that, but it'd make a > cool name for some kind of harvester - what is the carrion of the web?). > Of course it was Falcons, but indeed vultures would make a better metaphor. First because they are scavengers, and we badly need that given all the rotten stuff around, and second because they have a cool collective strategy to get at it. Vultures monitor a quite large territory from above, and at the same time the behavior of their neighbouring fellows. So if one moves down to a prey, the guys next door follow inwards and downwards, and the information propagates quickly to friends of friends. Social semantic web, sort of. :-) Falcons are not that kind of social birds (neither are owls). They hunt individually, for themselves and families at best. Good parents, not-so-good neighbours. Bernard -- *Bernard Vatant *Knowledge Engineering ---------------------------------------------------- *Mondeca** *3, cité Nollez 75018 Paris France Web: www.mondeca.com <http://www.mondeca.com> ---------------------------------------------------- Tel: +33 (0) 871 488 459 Mail: bernard.vatant@mondeca.com <mailto:bernard.vatant@mondeca.com> Blog: Leçons de Choses <http://mondeca.wordpress.com/>Received on Thursday, 20 March 2008 13:25:33 UTC
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