Many of my colleagues and I have applied social network analysis to Internet social media. Email, mail lists, wikis, blogs, newsgroups, web boards, photo sharing systems and social networking services all create "network" structures. In several papers we documented the…
I am pleased to announce the return of our network overview, discovery and exploration add-in for Excel 2007 now called NodeXL. Please visit http://www.codeplex.com/nodexl for the add-in and the source code for the application. Key features in NodeXL: > Import data from existing…
Clay Shirky posted his talk from last week’s Web 2.0 conference as a wonderful piece on what he calls social surplus – extra cognitive capacity that people don’t know how to spend at first. He argues that our next revolution is the shift from spending our spare cognitive cycles consuming content – watching TV – to spending our spare cognitive cycles consuming, producing, and sharing content.
It’s an interesting train of thought. I particularly like the bit at the end:
I saw an article posted to Slashdot yesterday about how scientists are using Web 2.0 tools to facilitate collaboration. The original piece, published in Scientific American, offers some food for thought around these parts. The article is pretty basic, but…
At the recent ICWSM 2008 in Seattle I had an opportunity to present some thoughts about what makes social media social. The question is important because so many different types of interaction systems are considered social and they cannot all…