"freedom is the right to be left alone."

too late, i fear. yochai benkler was talking, but also leaving before i get my hands on. well, well. at least he was dropping one line about his critizism on power law. he didn't name barabási, but he did say, he didn't do the empirical studies of link structure and networking, he just made the interpretation: which says more or less that the curve looks different, if you break it down into smaller clusters, then you might find that if five people articulate same intererst, they become a group and get recognized. well, as varian, the guy with the book "information rules" pointed out - i think correctly: it is still mass media most people are reacting too; reminds me of a saying of the people who analyze search terms, who also say that new terms are first indicated by traditional media before they are used by someone else. we are not that far as some like to think or want others to believe in.

varian's remark also was: if hard- and software are expensive, economically, you want to have one fact in the game that's cheap. and that is in the online "game" information. industry has an interest in keeping it that way. yet the game to gain revenue from something else isn't that new: print, radio and tv are also living on ads as it is the case for information providers.

in general terms:this conference has less t-shirts, more suits, more to x-any, so far.

13.07.2006 the official inauguration of the Turkish section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil export pipeline, the new Ceyhan marine export terminal and the full BTC pipeline export system was held today at the Ceyhan terminal on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey |bp

history seen from azerbaijan international, ends 2005.

the strategists are in bled these days. | bildt