How We Know Us

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  • If Facebook were real life

    Idiots of Ants [via Tomorrow Museum].

  • Astroturfing Censured by NY Attorney General

    While not networking exactly, this does touch on our predilection to believe others we do not know, if there are enough of them. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has settled with a plastic surgery company, alleging the firm published phony positive testimonials and Web sites. Lifestyle Lift, associated with Michigan-based Scientific Image Center Management,…

  • Iranian Government Social Network Analysis

    In honor of the Iranian election, here’s the 2001 social network analysis of the Iranian government by Renfro and Deckro.

  • Kiva Micro-Lending Offers API

    Incredibly great idea Kiva.org, the distributed micro-lending organization, has recently released a freely available API for accessing their data. I have just started poking at the data available, as I suspect network analysis will be able to help predict rates of return. Good on ‘ya Kiva! Update: hi-res image by request from smoovej

  • Andreas Kluth and the Campfire

    Great podcast interview with the Economist‘s Andreas Kluth contrasting social media and the communication around the campfire. “We were all awkward as teenagers … if I had had already Facebook and such media available to me I would have probably been completely impossible to talk to now. Because of course, there is a certain brain…

  • /Message: Authority Is A Highly Charged Particle

    I’ve discussed my thoughts on authority before and I think follower count is a poor measure; but Stowe Boyd as has a great post (where the name for this post came from) summing up much of the controversy. Two things I particularly like about the post: his spelling out why follower count is not without…

  • Beautiful, Beautiful Data

    Flip over at InfoChimps has put together a massive scrape of twitter.  While trying to figure out how to process it all, I’ve drawn one day’s scrape* (20-Dec-08).  Many thanks to Flip and InfoChimps for the wow work, and doubly so for making publicly available.

  • A brief history of communication

    A breif History of communication from ljudbilden on Vimeo. Yes, it’s an ad, but who can say no to stop-motion history? [via neatorama]

  • Social Networks of the Senate

    I always enjoy analyzing social networks (SN’s) that have had a lot less press than the Goliaths of MySpace and Facebook.  I have done an awful lot of them, but one of my favorites was looking at the co-sponsorship patterns in the US Senate, 110th session (the current one). This analysis was especially enjoyable because…

  • Your network: for or against you?

    Your network can help you or work against you, it all depends on the level alignment between your network and your goals.  If you are trying to get something done with a team, your network should reflect that.  If you are looking for new opportunties, your network should reflect that. I wrote a short piece…