Tag Archives: scalefree-networks

Homeland Security, Networks, and Accountability

Posted on September 16, 2004 by

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 →

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It's a Small Campus After All

Posted on September 15, 2004 by

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 →

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overstated: Weblogs and authority

Posted on September 14, 2004 by

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 →

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Weblog Audience-Building and the Strength of Weak Ties

Posted on September 9, 2004 by

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 →

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Informational Cascades, Network Theory, and Behavioral Economics

Posted on August 29, 2004 by

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 →

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