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Tag Archives: scalefree-networks
Homeland Security, Networks, and Accountability
Social networks guru Valdis Krebs has written an analysis which purports to show that creating a single intelligence czar is less efficient in terms of getting intelligence to the President than leaving the stove pipes but adding connections among them. … Continue reading
It's a Small Campus After All
Gilad Ravid and Sheizaf Rafaeli’s new piece in FirstMonday, “Asynchronous Discussion Groups as Small World and Scale Free Networks“, analyzes a voluntary learning community that develops on a university’s LMS. These are all students who are (apparently) registered for on-campus … Continue reading
Posted in Books I Like, Build This, Please, Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Science, Notable Posts
Tagged FirstMonday, Malcolm-Gladwell, scalefree-networks
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overstated: Weblogs and authority
In the Overstated weblog (great name, by the way), Cameron Marlow suggests that blogrolls are proxies for popularity while links directly from a blog post to a permalink of another blog are proxies for influence. For example, slashdot is popular … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Science
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Weblog Audience-Building and the Strength of Weak Ties
One of the challenges you face when you start a new weblog is attracting an audience. Who is going to gather the pearls of wisdom that you offer to the world? It’s not that hard these days to find somebody … Continue reading
Informational Cascades, Network Theory, and Behavioral Economics
Stephen Downes’ mention of my article on informational cascades (thanks for the plug, Stephen) led me to his post in the trdev discussion group. He writes: In network theory, ‘groupthink’ is an instance of what is known as a cascade … Continue reading
