Month: September 2008
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Response: How Does the Web Define Authority?
The real questions are: whom do we trust, why, and under what conditions is trust transferable? Chris Brogran asks: How does the web define authority? First is an important matter of language. There is a large difference between authority and an authority. Authority is power formally granted by a position or role. An authority is…
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How Would You Promote Education through Social Networks?
I was recently asked to put together some thoughts about the potential impact Social Networks could have on education by a really savvy M.D. over at Cerner, and I thought this audience might be interested too. I have not seen too much about this topic, and would really like to hear your thoughts. Social Networking…
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Implied Social Networks: People In the News with Rankings
As a follow up to this previous post with an image of the relationship between people mentioned in the news, I’ve been asked to provide more detail. First, why bother at all? Exploring the implied relationships may tell us about the individuals in question, but certainly provide more context to each of the other topics…
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Deconstructing Delicious: Merlin Mann
Merlin Mann has a large set of public delicious tags, and I thought I’d take a stab at their interrelation. By my measure of centrality, his top 20 are: 43folders domains tumble music sanfrancisco macosx flickr mbwideas gtd movies design tv selflink mac heh email productivity lifehacks the_man cigars Why Merlin Mann you might ask? …
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5 Years of Insider Trading
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Implied Social Networks example: the news
Social Network derived from relationships in the news.