Category: Social Networks
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Fun with Wikipedia Networks
So the mouse-over text of today’s xkcd (“Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at ‘Philosophy.’”) has inspired a little playful procrastination. I’d love to put together one of those fun xkcd-style info…
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News: Local and Blocal
Happy Saturday. I’m sitting in my pajamas listening to Michael Pollan on a “special encore edition” of Whad’ya Know and catching up on my online life. First off, special encore editions can only mean it’s fund drive time at Wisconsin Public Radio. Fund drive time is many people I talk to’s reason for not listening…
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Balancing Act, Part II: Scott, Free
I mentioned in my last post that the timing of the launch of this blog was no mere coincidence. Indeed, I don’t think I could have started one at any other time than during a holiday’s week away from the place where I practically live. But the other motivator was that over the break I…
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Point of Contention
Is The Tipping Point‘s central tenet–that “‘social epidemics’ are ‘driven by the efforts of a handful of exceptional people’”–correct? Some networks theorists writing in Journal of Consumer Research don’t think so. I won’t start my “Network Flows” class until the end of the month, but I think these guys’ central point makes sense: Dodds compares…