Month: October 2013
More Symposium Take Aways
David D on the Facebook hack, Kevin Bacon, why not become a hub, and that you need to do it. (Related to that thanks to Boglarka for this gem.) Denham on the Facebook hack, making, and the new world o... Read More
Paul Revere, Social Graph, Speculative Writing
The readings about networks and graphs. Facebook has what it calls a social graph, which is the data it maps about all our connections. I can’t do the mathematics behind it, but it is potentiall... Read More
This Week Was Bought to You By…
Shannen digs up some supplementary reading on technique and technology (well done). Anna C with notes. Victoria L, with streamed notes that seems to have kept up well. Brittany has dot points, and Pat... Read More
Specular (Not Speculative)
Lauren on the ‘specular economy’ which is not only about how we think we want to present ourselves but also how extensive networks now are. If as we saw with Kevin Bacon it is easy to get ... Read More
Small World Networks, Scale Free, Kevin Bacon
My riff in response to Brian’s comment that the 80/20 stuff isn’t what really matters in the reading. the internet is scale free – you can add and add to it and it doesn’t fill... Read More
Blogs, Opinion, Knowledge
Opinions, argument, the university and the coffee house. Read some interesting things in the blogs about the blogs and the encouragement of opinion and reflection. These are good conversations to have... Read More
All the Faces on Facebook
Have a look. This is what happens when we make networks of bits and loose connections. Services are porous to each other, so someone could make a service that pulls this data from over there, and does... Read More- 2 of 2
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