sábado, março 13, 2004

Oops!

Ando à volta de uma semana atrasado com as leituras, tanto on-line como em papel. Correndo o risco de não estar a dar novidade nenhuma a ninguém, aqui vai uma possível confirmação, por parte dos Hewlett-Packard Labs e publicada pela Wired News no passado dia 5, de que aquilo que todos os bloggers já sabiam e nunca ousaram afirmar é verdade:
"The most-read webloggers aren't necessarily the ones with the most original ideas, say researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs. Using newly developed techniques for graphing the flow of information between blogs, the researchers have discovered that authors of popular blog sites regularly borrow topics from lesser-known bloggers -- and they often do so without attribution."

"In North America the black bear was seen by [Samuel] Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."
Darwin, Charles; "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" (On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and structure)