Connected Action

   Katy Borner at the Visual Data Analysis Conference in San Jose It was good to see Katy Borner at the Visual Data Analysis conference held recently in San Jose. Katy is part of the Network Workbench project that provides a comprehensive set of network analysis data sets and tools.

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ASONAM 2009 – CALL FOR PAPERS (A printable typeset version of a more extensive CfP can be found at <http://www.asonam.org/ASONAM09_CfP.pdf>.) The 2009 International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Data Mining. http://www.asonam.org ASONAM is an international conference to be held in Athens, Greece, July 20-22, 2009 will provide an interdisciplinary venue for practitioners [...]

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Forester recently released its review of leading social media platforms. They conclude that communities are a powerful way for businesses to grow.  Community and social media have ROI! The segment is getting crowded, over 100 vendors and growing, but only few cleared Forrester’s threshold for robustness and feature richness. Forrester evaluated nine social media platforms [...]

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I share the loss of Peter Kollock with the many people who knew him.  Peter died Saturday after a motorcycle accident near his home. Many people in the social sciences and beyond have been influenced by Peter’s works of scholarship, teaching, mentorship, entreprenurship and friendship. Peter had a big impact on his many students at [...]

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The next meeting of the “Quantified Self” group will be held on January 27th, 2009 at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information. The group focuses on the emerging practice of recording lots of data about your physical state and activity.  Its where life logging meets populations of people grappling with illness or seeking [...]

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