The Name(s) for The Digital Universe?

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Colleagues/

I am interested in knowing if there is A Name for The
Digital Universe, by which I mean All **Things** That Exist
(or Might Exist in The Future) via the Internet / Web /
Networks.

By Things I Mean: Text /  Audio  / Video / Online Social
Networks / Online Communities / Objects / Etc. 

I am particularly interested in Any And All Efforts That
Have Created An All-Inclusive Digital Environment / World /
Space/ Place / Etc.

Thanks for Considering

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

gerrymckiastate.edu  

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The multiverse comes to mind

http://en.wik
ipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse

Alternatively, meta-universe or metaverse.

Incidentally, your recent question regarding crystals was
particularly 
interesting (and particularly relevant on Valentine's
Day!):

> It has occurred to me that Online Social Networking [
>  h
ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service ] may
be envisioned 
> as Crystals [ http://en.wikip
edia.org/wiki/Crystals ]

Just the other day, we generated a graph of a certain blog
community 
network. The first comment: 'That looks just like
Buckminster Fullerine'. 
Very large graphs usually don't come out looking
particularly crystalline, 
but it is in the nature of small networks of regular link
structure that 
they produce a pseudo-crystalline structure. However, many
social networks 
contain a more Zipfian density distribution (ie a few very
popular blogs 
and a huge number of decreasingly popular blogs, for
example), which 
produces a less regular set of vertices...

Regards

Em Tonkin



On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Gerry Mckiernan wrote:

> ***APOLOGIES FOR RECEIPT OF DUPLICATE POSTINGS***
>
> Colleagues/
>
> I am interested in knowing if there is A Name for The
Digital Universe, 
> by which I mean All **Things** That Exist (or Might
Exist in The Future) 
> via the Internet / Web / Networks.
>
> By Things I Mean: Text /  Audio  / Video / Online
Social Networks / Online Communities / Objects / Etc.
>
> I am particularly interested in Any And All Efforts
That Have Created An All-Inclusive Digital Environment /
World / Space/ Place / Etc.
>
> Thanks for Considering
>
> /Gerry
>
> Gerry McKiernan
> Associate Professor
> Science and Technology Librarian
> Iowa State University Library
> Ames IA 50011
>
> gerrymckiastate.edu
>
> There is Nothing More Powerful Than  An Idea Whose Time
Has Come
> Victor Hugo
> [ h
ttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ]
>
> Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West
Wind Blows ...
> [ http:
//www.alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]
>
>
>
>
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M/

Thanks for your interest in my posting(s).

Yes. Multiverse is a Possibility ...

/G

>>> Emma Tonkin <e.tonkinukoln.ac.uk> 2/14/2008
6:36 PM >>>
The multiverse comes to mind

http://en.wik
ipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse 

Alternatively, meta-universe or metaverse.

Incidentally, your recent question regarding crystals was
particularly 
interesting (and particularly relevant on Valentine's
Day!):

> It has occurred to me that Online Social Networking [
>  h
ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service ] may
be envisioned 
> as Crystals [ http://en.wikip
edia.org/wiki/Crystals ]

Just the other day, we generated a graph of a certain blog
community 
network. The first comment: 'That looks just like
Buckminster Fullerine'. 
Very large graphs usually don't come out looking
particularly crystalline, 
but it is in the nature of small networks of regular link
structure that 
they produce a pseudo-crystalline structure. However, many
social networks 
contain a more Zipfian density distribution (ie a few very
popular blogs 
and a huge number of decreasingly popular blogs, for
example), which 
produces a less regular set of vertices...

Regards

Em Tonkin



On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Gerry Mckiernan wrote:

> ***APOLOGIES FOR RECEIPT OF DUPLICATE POSTINGS***
>
> Colleagues/
>
> I am interested in knowing if there is A Name for The
Digital Universe, 
> by which I mean All **Things** That Exist (or Might
Exist in The Future) 
> via the Internet / Web / Networks.
>
> By Things I Mean: Text /  Audio  / Video / Online
Social Networks / Online Communities / Objects / Etc.
>
> I am particularly interested in Any And All Efforts
That Have Created An All-Inclusive Digital Environment /
World / Space/ Place / Etc.
>
> Thanks for Considering
>
> /Gerry
>
> Gerry McKiernan
> Associate Professor
> Science and Technology Librarian
> Iowa State University Library
> Ames IA 50011
>
> gerrymckiastate.edu 
>
> There is Nothing More Powerful Than  An Idea Whose Time
Has Come
> Victor Hugo
> [ h
ttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ]
>
> Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West
Wind Blows ...
> [ http:
//www.alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]
>
>
>
>
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> Colleagues/
>
> I am interested in knowing if there is A Name for The
Digital Universe, 
> by which I mean All **Things** That Exist (or Might
Exist in The Future) 
> via the Internet / Web / Networks.
>
> By Things I Mean: Text / Audio / Video / Online Social
Networks / Online 
> Communities / Objects / Etc.
>
> I am particularly interested in Any And All Efforts
That Have Created An 
> All-Inclusive Digital Environment / World / Space/
Place / Etc.


cyberspace
mediaspace
digital noosphere (with a nod to Teilhard de Chardin...)
blogosphere
the matrix

etc?


--elijah
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> Colleagues/
>
> I am interested in knowing if there is A Name for The
Digital Universe, 
> by which I mean All **Things** That Exist (or Might
Exist in The Future) 
> via the Internet / Web / Networks.
>
> By Things I Mean: Text / Audio / Video / Online Social
Networks / Online 
> Communities / Objects / Etc.
>
> I am particularly interested in Any And All Efforts
That Have Created An 
> All-Inclusive Digital Environment / World / Space/
Place / Etc.


cyberspace
mediaspace
digital noosphere (with a nod to Teilhard de Chardin...)
blogosphere
the matrix

etc?


--elijah
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how about... 'everyday life' 
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