Connected Action

@israelblechman looking for network visualizations in C# and .Net, and free? See http://www.codeplex.com/nodexl # @makovec Thanks for the tweet! NodeXL has just updated: see http://www.codeplex.com/nodexl # Facebook network edge list app: http://ping.fm/kx67h # My colleague Bernie Hogan at the Oxford Internet Institute releases a Facebook app to grab your network: apps.facebook.com/mynet_phaseon … #

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A great conference on social media and related issues will be held this August in Vancouver: 2009 IEEE Social Computing Conference.  I will be reviewing for the conference and will be working on a couple of papers that will be submitted for review. http://cse.stfx.ca/~socialcom09/ Topics of particular interest for the conference include, but are not [...]

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Harry Brignull, a User Experience Consultant, recently mentioned this on the Anthrodesign email list: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2GfOhFZkY8 This is one of the great works of empirical sociology: using a time lapse camera (and an analog clock) to study the flow of people over time through several spaces in New York City in the 1970s. The associated books, [...]

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In my paper From Hyperlinks to Hyperties in  The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age (Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui, Editors; which came from the symposium of the same name at Annenberg School of Communication in Philadelphia).  I propose one of the ways mobile devices and social software will change the nature of [...]

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The great sociologist Erving Goffman wrote a number of influential works about a domain of social life he called the “interaction order”, the realm of interactions between people.  Goffman studied how interactions are structured in the most common settings like how people pass by each other in hallways, manage eye contact, or show that they [...]

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After a lovely dinner you order a third glass of wine, take a sip and your mobile phone rings. Its your health insurance company’s computer. You take the call. “We’re delighted to see you are enjoying yourself this evening!” the cheerful voice synthesis exclaims. “Please note, however, that you are now at the policy limit [...]

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Jordi Comas at Bucknell University just mentioned this cool application on the SOCNET social network analysis discussion email list and I think it is worth a repeat: here is a great game that challenges you to find arrangements of nodes to minimize all edge crossings. http://www.aeriagames.com/games/mini/puzzle/4467/Untangle_1.2 Not a bad way to spend a few moments [...]

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NodeXL is growing in features and utility along with its user base. As we just crossed the 5,000 download milestone, it seems time for the next phase in the evolution of all software projects: t-shirts. We need an image, logo, or design that best reflects the NodeXL project and we would like your help!  If [...]

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A shout out to my co-authors Eric Gleave, Howard (“Ted”) Welser, and Tom Lento – our paper “A conceptual and operational definition of “Social Role” in Online Community” got the best paper award at HICSS-42!  The Hawaii International Conference of System Sciences has featured a great series of mini tracks over the years.  The Persistent [...]

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A nice example of the value of a graph: here is a network chart generated with NodeXL that represents the connections between products and producers that may be tainted with peanuts that have food poisoning. From Doug Finke’s Development in a Blink blog: If you have any examples or samples of informative network diagrams (particularly [...]

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