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John Battelle on Searchstreams

John Battelle on Searchstreams 08/14/2004 03:06 PM
Great entry on Battelle's Searchblog about the value of recording the journey of finding information on the Web.

That's when I remembered As We May Think, Vannevar Bush's famous essay in The Atlantic. I had read it earlier in my research, and was struck not by the idea of the Memex, which is well understood, but by Bush's explication of the problem - that knowledge and learning has become so complicated, so layered, so inefficient, that it is near impossible for anyone to be a generalist, in the sense Aristotle was. Bush's answer to this problem was the Memex, of course, but what I find interesting is the mechanism by which the Memex is made potent - the mechanism for capturing the traces of a researcher's discovery through the Memex's corpus, and storing those traces as intelligence so the next researcher can learn from them and build upon them.

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"John Battelle?s predictions for 2005"

"John Battelle?s predictions for 2005" 01/03/2005 10:35 AM

John Battelle on Google's Froogle
Promotion

John Battelle on Google's Froogle
Promotion 12/18/2003 01:05 PM
If you're interested in the web search world and aren't reading John Battelle's searchblog, you really should be. John's a smart guy who knows a ton of people in this area. On the recent addition of Froogle results to Google search results, John says: ...it is a clear departure from the conceit - and I use that term neutrally - that Google has always maintained, which is that the results offered by their engine are free of human intervention -...

Online video of 60 Minutes Google seg
(with John Battelle)

Online video of 60 Minutes Google seg
(with John Battelle) 01/04/2005 11:55 PM
Xeni Jardin: Here's last Sunday's 60 Minutes segment about Google, including comment from BoingBoing's John Battelle. Link to video (divx), and Link to previous BB post with details. (thanks, matthowie!)

Webmaster World New Orleans Pubcon -
John Battelle Keynote

Webmaster World New Orleans Pubcon -
John Battelle Keynote 06/22/2005 02:33 AM

John Battelle visits Applied Minds, a
Willy Wonka-esque nerdvana

John Battelle visits Applied Minds, a
Willy Wonka-esque nerdvana 06/17/2004 06:12 PM
John describes his mind-blowing tour through Applied Minds, a Glendale, CA consultancy started by former Disney Imagineers Danny Hillis and Bran Ferren.

After chit chatting for a few minutes, he took me to a small room - no wider than my outstretched arms - at the far end of which stood one of those classic red English phone booths. We stepped inside - a bit cramped - and Danny lifted the receiver and dictated a passphrase of some sort. Presto - the rear wall of the booth opened, and we stepped into - nerdvana.

From a cramped phone booth into massive pure-white-lit space two-stories high, adorned with all manner of things strange and beautiful. Over to one side stood the Terminator-like skeleton of a forty-foot dinosaur, its 15-foot pneumatic legs gleaming and exposed. Nearly blending into the walls, itself painted movie-set white, was a tricked out Hummer-like RV refitted as a communications/command center - complete with built-in kitchen and bedroom. The space was a great big project lab, with happy geeks combing over various assemblages of wiring, motors, processors and plans like ants on a summer picnic. It's Willy Wonka's chocolate factory for geeks.

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Battelle on TimesSelect

Battelle on TimesSelect 06/05/2005 10:46 PM
As a follow up to yesterday's post, John Battelle's got some interesting perspective on the TimesSelect announcement as well, over on SearchBlog....

Battelle on Google's S-1

Battelle on Google's S-1 04/30/2004 03:37 AM
John Battelle's analysis of Google's S-1 filing -- and particularily, the charming-but-stilted founders' letter -- is fascinating and insightful:

The letter states, among other things, that 1. We don't need to do this for the money; 2. We have no plans to run our business to satisfy Wall Street's need for smooth earnings predictability; 3. We plan to give no earnings guidance, not at least as it's understood on Wall St.; 4. Don't ask us to do so, we'll simply decline the request; 5. We'll do odd things that you won' t understand; 6. We will make big bets on things that may not work out; 7. We run the company as a triumvirate, so there will not be clear leadership from one person like most other companies; 8. We bridge the media and tech industries (interesting), which are in flux, so we've chosen a two-class stock structure similar to the NYT, WashPost, and NYT that helps us avoid being taken over by those forces; 9. We plan using an auction model, as it feels fairer and we understand auctions from AdWords; 10. Don't invest in us if this scares you at all, or the price feels too high; 11. Don't even think about asking us to cut expenses with regard to our employees; 12. We believe in the idea of Don't Be Evil; 13. It's evil to pay for placement or inclusion (a swipe at Yahoo); 14. We hope to bridge the digital divide through Gmail type free services and a foundation with at least 1% of profits and equity to help make the world a better place; 17. Betting on Google is a bet on Sergey and Larry (this was said multiple times, making me wonder if there wasn't some odd future blame being assigned here by the VCs or bankers); 18. This letter is our way of answering the questions we can't answer in the coming months due to the IPO quiet period.

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Battelle and The First Rule of AdSense

Battelle and The First Rule of AdSense 09/07/2004 09:55 PM
John Battelle is blogging his experience with advertising on his weblog. He's started with Google AdSense (which I also use) but seems to have violated the First Rule of Google AdSense rather quickly. There's some amusing (or sad, depending on your point of view) stuff in his post as well as some good comments from Cory Doctorow in the comments, like: anything the scale of Google is way, way too big to be involved in editorial decision I think John's...

60 Minutes: Google, Battelle, and
Bollywood

60 Minutes: Google, Battelle, and
Bollywood 01/02/2005 11:06 PM
Xeni Jardin: Well -- not all together in the same story, though that might have been even more interesting.

The CBS television program 60 Minutes featured a lengthy segment on Google this evening which included astute comment from John Battelle, who moonlights as BoingBoing's Reuben Kincaid when he's not writing books, building empires, and tracking search tech trends here. Snip from the transcript:

"If anybody got a Porsche or a Ferrari right now at Google, they’d probably be drummed out of the company," observes John Battelle, an author and entrepreneur who has been following Silicon Valley companies for 20 years. He says, "Google has a brand image to maintain. And their image is they’re all about innovation and they’re all about the Internet, and they’re all about trust. They’re not about selling out. They’re not about getting rich quick. So you’ve got a culture like that; I think if anyone were to buy, you know, a new Mercedes convertible and drive around with the stereo blaring, and miss work a couple days because they’re rich now, that would not be acceptable behavior at Google.

"But trust me," he adds. "There’s a Mercedes convertible in every one of their heads. There is. And it will…come out. Over time, it will come out."

The show also included a killer piece on Indian film star and hyperbolic superbeauty Aishwarya Rai. Snip:

The reason Bollywood films have such universal appeal is because they’re squeaky-clean. There are no sex scenes, not even kissing. Every time you think someone’s going to do it, they'll burst into song instead. "I'd assume that's really a reflection of our society," Rai says, when asked to explain the films' modesty. "Of course people kiss and of course people have a very healthy love life. This is the land of the Kama Sutra. But nevertheless, in our society you don't really see people around the street corner kissing or being extremely, overtly, physically demonstrative publicly. They do it privately but not publicly."

Link to Google piece with BoingBoing's own John Battelle, and Link to seg on Aishwarya Rai.

:: John Kerry for President - John
Kerry's Official Naval Records ::

:: John Kerry for President - John
Kerry's Official Naval Records :: 04/22/2004 04:00 PM
Kerry camp posts military records online. Bush camp checking his parents attic for his .. docs of his Vietnam service record .. this gentleman's record .. 120 pages of records .. his

johnkerry.com/about/military_records.html
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Radio Interview with John Brady Kiesling
and John H. Brown

Radio Interview with John Brady Kiesling
and John H. Brown 03/15/2003 06:05 AM
KALW in San Francisco did an hour long radio interview with John Brady Kiesling and John H. Brown, the American Foreign Service officers who resigned over Bush's Iraq policy. Both are impressive speakers, and Kiesling is as articulate and as convincing as his letter:

If we can't convince our historical allies that this is a good thing to do, there is no way we are going to be able to convince the Arab world. People have to take a stand. War may be inevitable, but we need to do what we can to keep our consciences clean. There is a policy to make America safer, but this is not it. "America is still the safest country in the world. The administration is trying to scare people with this talk about terror and duct tape. We should use our safety and prosperity and our strength to do good and we can do good."

Brown said his resignation was "in part a result of Andrew Card's comment, 'Never launch a product in August.' War is not a product." I learned a lot from listening to it. Recommended. Requires Real Player.

Vodkapundit - John Stossel on John
Edwards

Vodkapundit - John Stossel on John
Edwards 07/26/2004 03:49 PM
problem with the segment .. like

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Congrats to...

Congrats to... 01/22/2004 04:31 AM
Congratulations to the Kerry supporters. Edwards', too. See you in New Hampshire :)...

Congrats Jay!

Congrats Jay! 07/25/2004 11:08 PM
About 10 months ago, I posted a lazyweb request for a blacklist-based comment-spam solution. Only 2 days later, Jay Allen posted a solution that pretty much did exactly what I (and many others) needed. Ever since, he's been adding more and more features to aid in the fight against comment spam and even started maintaining a master blacklist people could... (156 words)

"IT'S A JOHN-JOHN TICKET: John ..."

"IT'S A JOHN-JOHN TICKET: John ..." 07/06/2004 02:58 PM

:: John Kerry for President - Remarks of
Senator John Kerry on Security and
Strength for a New World ::

:: John Kerry for President - Remarks of
Senator John Kerry on Security and
Strength for a New World :: 05/30/2004 08:37 PM
Remarks of Senator John Kerry on Security and Strength for a New World .. openly threatening the Saudi regime .. Seattle speech .. Today's speech .. speeches

johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2004_0527.html
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Congrats to Userland

Congrats to Userland 05/07/2004 05:00 AM

The transition of Userland continues.

I go back with Peter Winer almost as far back as Dave.

Clearly this is a company like no other.

Congrats to Rojo

Congrats to Rojo 02/07/2005 01:51 AM

Even though we know they got their money long ago - I guess Rojo got even more money today (or recently.)

So congrats to Chris and Kevin - and let's not forget Mark Graham - either!

Go daddies go!

Maybe one day even YOU can get bought by a search engine company.

Congrats to Rafat!

Congrats to Rafat! 12/17/2004 06:28 PM

Turns out Rafat Ali of PaidContent.org got married in South Africa and is taking some time off.

The guy's a monster!

His new wife better appreicate the time she's getting.

Congrats to BookSlut!

Congrats to BookSlut! 03/11/2003 10:45 AM

Winners of the 2003 Bloggies have been announced, and BookSlut won for "Best Topical Category!"

Congrats to Ted Shelton

Congrats to Ted Shelton 02/01/2005 08:42 PM

Ted Shelton is at Orb Networks - coolio.

Congrats to Om for being Slashdotted

Congrats to Om for being Slashdotted 05/08/2004 11:04 PM
The SlashDot Effect.

I had only read about the SlashDot Effect, popularly known as Slashdotted. I had never experienced it first hand. While I was away in Los Angeles, this story about the Linksys gateway, which did the rounds in the blogsphere via Engadget, Gizmodo, Boing Boing , Broadband Reports and a couple of other sites, was picked up by SlashDot. (Broke the Blogdex top 50 for the first time as well.)I had no idea that my innocuous little post could stir up such reaction. Oh well … power of the Internet first hand.

Next thing I know (rather I did not know) the traffic to the website went crazy, and quickly site was “off the air.” Apparently, the number of hits to the page created log files which tipped me over the available disk space on the server, and the index page became unavailable. Well managed to fix this problem, but it is becoming increasingly evident that it is time to go for a higher end web hosting company. Which is a problem because that is going to cost money, and well given that GigaOM is more of a hobby, I am wondering out aloud about what to do next. Suggestions and ideas are always welcome.

[Om Malik on Broadband]

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Speaking of Clay Shirky - we got Shirkydotted last Septemeber when he mentioned the PeopleAggregator. I had dropped a subtle hint of it's existence and he immediately picked up on it.

But that was nothing like the real Slashdottin g we received when Richard McManus' article/interview of me went live, and first Doc and Xeni/BoingBoing picked it up and then within an hour - BAM.

Down on our knees begging for forgiveness for days.

Congrats To The Meyers!

Congrats To The Meyers! 12/10/2003 05:47 AM
Carolyn Maxwell Meyer .. new arrival: Carolyn .. meyerweb .. carolyn

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Congrats to Justin

Congrats to Justin 05/11/2004 01:43 PM

Web Site Founder Flees Mounting Scandal

Today, Justin Hall refused to take questions on the scandal that has engulfed his personal work on the web. Amidst allegations that he has fabricated his life, the embattled Hall today ducked into a black car leaving Oakland for Los Angeles. The controversy threatens to overshadow his recent work to reinvent himself as a graduate student and resident of Southern California; some independent media analysts are now claiming that his plans to attend grad school and move to Los Angeles are actually premeditated concoctions.

Hall's late application to grad school and too-rapid closing of his Oakland estate are leading observers to highlight the chronological impossibility of events Hall details on his personal web site, "Justin's Links." Citing application deadlines, researcher Stan Hodgson writes, "What must have happened is that Mr. Hall applied by January 30, and then began posting on the graduate school topic at a much later date, most likely after he'd been admitted, but AS IF he were still contemplating applying. Certain decisions about the house were likely made and concluded far in advance of the posting, if it is indeed the case that he is moving and selling the house."

Hall's web site "Justin's Links" has a reputation for personal disclosure, as Hall has spent ten years sharing what has appeared to be his innermost thoughts, physical sensations and pending experiences. Now it appears that Hall may have been weaving nothing but a web of lies. Weighing recent evidence and using measured language, Hodgson remarks: "Mr. Hall's recent posts on this site suggest a greater than normal divergence between lived experience and the blogged representation."

Experts are just now unraveling what some call a premeditated pattern of deceit surrounding Hall's recent announcement of plans to sell his home and attend school. In a possible attempt to hide evidence, Hall emptied his Oakland home of five years, splitting his records between multiple vehicles that were today dispatched from that location, bearing their contents to undisclosed California storage facilities.

The crisis threatens to undermine years of good will from websurfers, who had been lead to believe that Hall was telling the truth about his life online. James, a frequent commenter on Links.net, posted this remark in response to the allegations: "I've often wondered whether there was not a great deal of artifice in Justin's apparently casual and offhanded (and apparently uncensored) manner of describing his life." In the days since the scandal broke, a growing number of voices online have joined James in calling for an official investigation of or explanation from the elusive Hall.

Hall was seen at an In-N-Out Burger in Kettleman California, seemingly oblivious to the growing scandal, and calls for him to reveal the true story behind Justin's Links. A observer noticed Hall in a corner booth, eating a double cheeseburger and deleting spam on a laptop hooked up to a mobile phone.

Experts are not yet agreed on Hall's motivation for faking a life online. But it appears that this callow youth might have finally have tipped the scales of truth, as investigators could have enough evidence to indict Hall on charges of false honesty.

Claiming "travel and deadlines," Hall himself could not be reached for comment.

congrats on Waxy 2.0!

congrats on Waxy 2.0! 01/22/2004 06:19 PM
all of this child's toenail clippings will be archived permanently on the web in plain text format

Congrats to Jonas on getting a job!

Congrats to Jonas on getting a job! 06/09/2004 05:54 AM
Does that mean I have to wear pants, again?.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's with not inconsiderable pleasure, that I announce my re-entry into the world of the bi-monthly paycheck. Starting today I will be getting paid to lend what little of expertise I have to offer and use it to play with and work on some cool Open Source collaboration things. Psyched.

[a preponderance of evidence blogs]

Collabnet is very lucky to get Jonas to work for them.

Congrats to Justin!

Congrats to Justin! 03/06/2004 01:49 AM
Just In Tokyo Released to the Waiting Web.

Just In Tokyo Released to the Waiting Web

I lived in Japan between October 2001 and January 2003. Mostly Tokyo. I published a guide book in September 2002, called Just In Tokyo: "How to Live as an Urban Nomad in the World's Most Expensive City." It was great fun - I wrote it up and laid the whole thing out; the pages are busy, just as I like 'em.

My publisher was Garrett County Press, in New Orleans. After about a year, we agreed to take the guidebook off the market. I would have published the thing forever, but it was selling slow (slow and steady!) and losing some of its direct relevance as it aged.

So I've released it to the web, under a Creative Commons license. Just In Tokyo PDF - download it for your next trip to Tokyo! Visit the Tokyo of the  [Justin's Links]

Congrats to Cory

Congrats to Cory 03/20/2003 04:23 PM

How nuts is it that Cory' s book was reviewed by Jeff Bezos and Harriet Klausner, Amazon's #1 reviewer? And speaking of, how on earth does someone review 4605 products (almost all books) in just a few years? I'm seeing 4-5 lengthy book reviews per day in some of her history, how on earth does someone do such a thing?

Congrats to Ross et al - keep going!

Congrats to Ross et al - keep going! 04/24/2004 03:25 AM

And as if (on cue) Ross was waiting for the official battles to commence, here comes Blogware with....

Busy Week in Blogware-land.

It has been an extremely busy week on Blogwareland. The project is really firing on all cyclinders and I'm starting to get pretty excited about the upcoming release. Most of my time has been devoted to staff training. We took 30 or so staffers through hands-on with the service in a lab environment and the feedback has been great. I really enjoyed taking everyone through the in's and out's of Blogware and the weblog market and it is great to see the rest of the team over here finally starting to understand why I'm so excited by Blogware and the weblog opportunity. The blogosphere can be a tough thing to grok for one person - getting 150 people on the same page is even harder ;)

I finally got the nerve up to steal a page out of Doc Searls playbook and go outside of the "bullet-snore-click-snore" structure that Powerpoint forces on Office users. I've had the pleasure of seeing Doc "present" a few times and he's really taught me that 60 slides in 60 minutes is only bad if the content is bad...

The dev team is also totally in the zone. A bunch of new features coming out this week and a few bug fixes as well. I can see v1.0 just over the horizon...

Something old, something new, something boring and nothing blue...

 Something Old...

Comment Notifications v2.0! Weblog publishers getting comment notifications is old hat. Now, authenticated readers can also choose to receive comment notifications on a per article, per category or on a site-wide basis. Publishers also get to choose whether or not this feature is even available to their readers.

Something New...

Import/Export. Publishers can now get the important content out of their old weblogs and into their shiny new Blogware weblog. Also, the Export feature makes your Blogware content just that much more portable - great peace of mind. Import initially supports only MT imports with support for the Blogger, Radio and other formats shortly.

Something Boring...

Bug fixes. Yawn. ;) Publishers will notice that the webstats are much snappier now - we realized a ton of performance increases with some of these new fixes.

Nothing Blue...

No, I meant it - there was nothing blue. Well, just this. Literally.

So what's the big take away? It has been impossible for me to keep up with my email this week. If you've sent me a message and I haven't gotten back to you, rest assured, I still love you - its just that I'm currently 300 messages behind where I should be - and that's after 4 hours of catch up. Problem is, I'm not going to get through it all today - marketing needs sign-off on virtually everything that they've been working on for Blogware this afternoon and unless I wade into it, they are going to hunt me down and kill me - probably with a bad PowerPoint presentation or something ;)

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Congrats to Mikel!

Congrats to Mikel! 09/13/2004 07:01 AM

One of my favorite peeps is Mikel Maron - how moved to the South of England to go be a college student - again.

But it looks liek it paid off. Along the way Mikel has been doing plenty of contributing - still.

Unfortunately Mikel is there and I'm here - and it doesn't look like I'll get back to SF in time for a Sept. 17th dinner in SF - maybe a week later?

Here's Mikel's post.....

My dissertation is complete! An Ecological Approach to the Evolution of Complexity

Two weeks ago I completed an intense summer of work and sumbitted my dissertation for the MSc in Evolutionaty and Adaptive Systems. If all goes to plan, and there's no reason why not, I will have my degree within the next month. The research turned out well, and may lead to some future developments. Here I'm publishing the text (minus the code appendix) and the abstract, for easier reading flavor. Enjoy! (I am for sure).

An Ecological Approach to the Evolution of Complexity

How evolution led to complex life is one of the great questions. This paper describes simulations that investigate the role of ecological interactions in the evolution of complexity. Webworld is a robust model of evolution in food webs. It is extended for variability of organism complexity under evolution. Statistical and network analysis indicates a clear tendency for complexification within the model, led by adaptations that initially disconnect the species from trophic interactions. This suggests a process where short term fitness is increased by less connection to the ecosystem, but long term fitness is insured by incorporation within the ecosystem. Certainly it suggests a greater role for ecosystems in the evolution of complexity.

[Mikel Maron]

Congrats Rusty

Congrats Rusty 03/08/2004 11:27 PM
It looks like Rusty has gotten a daytime gig as an Internet big cheese. I notice that the sidebar blurb of Armstrong Zúniga LLC (a web consulting shop for political campaigns) now says: Rusty Foster joined Armstrong Zúniga in February of 2004 as CTO. Rusty created the Scoop software platform in 1999 and founded Kuro5hin.org the same year. Kuro5hin is widely recognized as a pioneering project in collaborative media, and Rusty has written and spoken extensively about the potential of the internet as a medium for collaboration and grassroots organizing. More...

Congrats to SixApart

Congrats to SixApart 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
NTT's Typepad powered blogging service

Here it is, and it looks great even though I do not understand Japanese. NTT is providing blogs to their millions of clients. Congratulations to Six Apart's team in Japan. Can't wait to see our first Typepad powered ISP & portals partnerships in Europe ! [Loic Le Meur Blog]

I need to put something witty here for my friend Loic.

How 'bout "Yes, we all want to see coming out of France, besides Wine and Cheese."

"One Of The Authors Of A New Anti-John
Kerry Book Frequently Posted Comments On
A Conservative Web Site Describing
Muslims And Catholics As Pedophiles And
Pope John Paul Ii As Senile (If You
Can't Refute The Charges, Attack The
People Making Them)"

"One Of The Authors Of A New Anti-John
Kerry Book Frequently Posted Comments On
A Conservative Web Site Describing
Muslims And Catholics As Pedophiles And
Pope John Paul Ii As Senile (If You
Can't Refute The Charges, Attack The
People Making Them)" 08/12/2004 02:13 AM

Death of a Salesman - Can John Kerry
sell John Kerry? By William Saletan

Death of a Salesman - Can John Kerry
sell John Kerry? By William Saletan 01/28/2004 08:43 AM
Senator Kerry has a personality and bearing that is likely all but unbearable in the West .. Will Saletan:

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Congrats ot Bill Appleton

Congrats ot Bill Appleton 01/16/2004 11:28 AM

Start-up DreamFactory conjures up new tools. The upstart introduces its first commercial product for building graphical user interfaces based on XML and Web services standards. [CNET News.com - Front Door]

Hey!  Congrats to Bill Appleton for getting some press!  We used Bill's 'Dreamfactory' tool to build our prototype 'MyMagicCarpetRide' - two years ago.  now Bill has deals with Salesforce.com and Grand Central Communications.

One thing Martin Lamonica - the writer of the article forgot - is that Laszlo Systems also creates "software for building so-called rich clients, or graphically rich desktop software that relies on XML and Web services."

We (Broadband Mechanics) - spent several years trying to build a 'rich-media platform'.  We finally just ran out of money.  But Laszlo got it right.  Oh - and Bill Appleton's Dreamfactory - also got it right - too.  :-)

Congrats to the Happy Couple!

Congrats to the Happy Couple! 05/30/2004 10:10 PM
A Very Christian Proposal-via-Scavenger-Hunt in Starbuck's Headquarters Hometown "The whole day was so much fun, and absolutely perfect. It meant so much to me that Sean included the people that were important in our lives. This really is the best engagement story I've ever heard - I'm overwhelmed that it is actually mine!"

Congrats to Jiri and Ricardo!

Congrats to Jiri and Ricardo! 03/08/2004 11:26 PM

:-) Now danah are I are in sync!

The fact that:

Jiri Slovacek male, 23, single Czech Republic

and

Ricardo Capitanio Martins da Silva male, 23, committed Brazil

.....are the leading conenctors - totally fascinates me!  How come?  Why? Their brilliant understanding and manipulation of the system is signs of things to come! 

I'm reminded of some Tom Clancey novel - where the stock market is played and the servers shut down simultaneously - which leads to world war outbreak of course!

What if all our explicit social networks went down?  Would we all resort to telephone again?  Or even worse - Shopping Malls?

I kind of think of every blog or message post I make - as a sort of homage to the telephone pole torn-up signage posting - or bulletin board thumbpost - in a laundry room.

Except this time - all the pre-precut telephone numbers tilted 90 degrees - for ease of tearing off - are my memes.

:-)

Here's danah's post.........

gaming Orkut connectors.

I logged into Orkut today and was pleasantly surprised to find that the first two connectors were neither Joi nor Marc. Instead, they are two men from outside the States (Brazil, Czech Republic) with a relatively small cohort of friends (73, 19). This is intriguing.

Now, i know that there are games being played, so i checked out their friends. Almost all are from their countries of origin and most have relatively few friends. Now, this would make sense in a normal model, but i'm curious who these central bridges are - how are they playing such a significant role on the network?

I also received an email from Marc Canter encouraging people to make more friends so that he can be more of a connector. This was a kind reminder of how fake the data really is.

Since it's fake anyways, i encourage all of you geeks with times on your hands to play. The trick to being the biggest connector is not a game of collecting people. It's a graph theory game. You need to bridge the most disparate groups as well as connect to the hubs strategically. Remember: it's an algorithm of average path length. Thus, you don't want exceptionally long path lengths factored into the average. But, if you bridge the hubs and the disparate groups, you've reduced the average for everyone.

Anyhow, i've got to get back to work and should not focus on this instead of writing, but it's a really fun math problem that i'd love for someone to solve. What is the algorith to minimize your average path length? Given the data, what strategic connections need to be made for a newcomer?

[apophenia]

Congrats to Dave Weinberger

Congrats to Dave Weinberger 03/06/2004 01:50 AM

Woohoo!

I found out this morning that I've been offered a fellowship at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. I start officially in July.

What a great opportunity! I'm thrilled. Joho the Blog]

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