Category Archives: networks

When nobody can hear you

By deeharvey | Published: June 18, 2008
Last night I watched an episode of Imagine about the Berlin Philharmonic on tour in Asia. It was a fascinating look inside an institution made up of highly talented and skilled people who must work together. One woman spoke about how her husband asked her why she bothered practising so much when nobody could actually hear her!
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Lawrence Lessig

By Administrator | Published: October 4, 2006
Lawrence Lessig Lessig describes two economies - the commercial one, and the amateur/social/sharing/p2p economy.
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Economics and Networks

By Administrator | Published: April 12, 2006
Last week on Earshot we did a show about Telecommunciations Networks and the ways new technology is disrupting the current order and regulatory system. This is stuff I’m really interested in. John spoke to Nicholas Economides of NYU’s Stern Business School, an expert in the Economics of Networks. I spoke to Brian Capouch of St. [...]
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MySpace second for page views

By Administrator | Published: April 5, 2006
GigaOM : » Big Shifts In Internet Usage
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Danah Boyd on MySpace and Friendster

By Administrator | Published: March 27, 2006
Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad? This is a great super-long blog entry cum essay by the super-smart Danah Boyd. She’s insightful on social software stuff. Heart.
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Social Networking Bubble

By Administrator | Published: March 22, 2006
GigaOM : » Social NOTworking
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Do Right the Wrong Way

By Administrator | Published: December 13, 2005
“Worse is Better” by Richard Gabriel - a sort of confusing treatise on the differences between the “worse is better” approach to writing code and the Stanford MIT model. Basically trying to get everything right first time is not as good as just getting something to work and then expanding it from there. “The Cathedral [...]
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Flickr and the Return of the Real

By Administrator | Published: November 22, 2005
So for our group assignment this week Sean, David, Monica and I had to do a group study of Flickr. I’ve never used Flickr, except to look at other people’s pictures, mostly of TNO, so it was really interesting for me. We were looking at how Flickr interacts with the “real world”, or the incursion of [...]
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Distributed Thinking

By Administrator | Published: November 14, 2005
For Thinking About Networks this week Clay had us read “Wisdom of Crowds” by James Surowiecky. This article contains the following gem: “James Shanteau is one of the country’s leading thinkers on the nature of expertise, and has spent a great deal of time coming up with a method for estimating just how expert someone is. [...]
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Social Capital

By Administrator | Published: November 9, 2005
“Social Capital” - Mark K. Smith I hate the phrase Social Capital - it’s like Human Capital. I remember Padraig Cullinane refusing to call his EU Presidency Conference “Human Capital” rather than Human Resources back in the Enterprise, Trade and Employment days. I’m with him, even more so with Social Capital - reducing the goodwill that [...]
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