Month: November 2001

Social Network Analysis

astonishing what can be gleamed from public ally released information. social network theorist Valdis Krebs graphically mapped the hijackers connections amongst themselves. social network analysis is what does the trick, and it may be a potent weapon for fighting future wars, and running business. he researches

the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, computers or other information/knowledge processing entities. The nodes in the network are the people and groups while the links show relationships or flows between the nodes. SNA provides both a visual and a mathematical analysis of human relationships.

valdis is now conducting an analysis of the ryze blogger tribe, a schmoozing cabal i happen to be part of. what a great opportunity to test drive FOAF (friend of a friend)

allows the expression of personal information and relationships, and is a useful building block for creating information systems that support online communities.

if this analysis goes out of its way to look into FOAF, interesting things could happen. stay tuned.

Technologies of coordination and cooperation

the community meme is quickly taking hold. i met 2 friends yesterday who want to do the same things in the music space, what a coincidence.

the key issue in the coming weeks / months will be striking a balance between centralization and decentralization.

i talked to some social scientist recently, and he confirmed what i had assumed all along. communities are the next big thing. duh. on a different note i want to have the autolink stuff working decently. manually entering links cannot be the answer.. maybe if it scours my past articles and my link db for hints..