Tag: trust
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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,…
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I Hear Twitter
Friendship, it seems, is more accurately demonstrated than described. We usually don’t do a good job accurately reporting our friendships when questioned. So, here’s a look at a slightly higher measurement of friendship: conversations. If you squint (or click to enlarge the image) you can find a little yellow dot. That’s me. The connections between…
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Complete(?) Kiva Network
I wanted to offer up an image of the complete(?) network after all of the kind interest in the preliminary network map I put together yesterday. From the feedback yesterday, I learned my lesson and have linked to a high-res version of the image.
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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
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Code Blue: Swift Trust and Team Dynamics of a Crash Cart Response
Swift Trust, much like it sounds, is the concept of rapidly coming to intra-team trust. A doctor friend of mine who introduced me to the term, explained it with the context of the ad hoc team of MDs and nurses responding to a cardiac arrest, a code blue. I have been thinking about this throughout…