Metadata Chronicles: NYT Beginning to Realize the NSA Builds Social Attribute Network
It is interesting and vaguely rewarding in a bloggy kind of way to watch The New York Times start connecting the dots and realizing that …
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Paul Revere’s Random Ride: Metadata And Social Attribute Networks
Like everyone else, I read Kieran Healy’s post on Paul Revere, the mostly highly connected person in Boston circa 1770. Healy, a sociologist at Duke, …
Marketing Earthquakes: Nature Provides the Clue to Mega-Hits
In a different era, you would have learned about Didier Sornette’s work as a physicist by perusing the pages of selected academic journals. Sornette was …
Tipping the Giant
I spent part of a long rainy afternoon two weekends ago slaying a Giant with a small pebble. No, it wasn’t a new video game. …