Tags: network_theory

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Monday, October 4th, 2010

Weak Ties, Twitter and Revolution | Wired Science | Wired.com

Responding to Malcolm Gladwell's recent piece in the New Yorker, Jonah Lehrer argues that the strength of weak ties *does* extend to social activism.

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Web science a new frontier - Find Events - The Royal Society

This looks like being a thoroughly excellent event at The Royal Society, featuring Tim Berners-Lee and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi.

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Six Degrees of Black Sabbath #6dobs

An extremely addictive bit of fun with small world network theory as applied to music.

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Six Degrees of Wikipedia

Six degrees of separation as applied to Wikipedia articles. Read on to find the Kevin Bacon of Wikipedia pages.

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Is Happiness Catching? - NYTimes.com

An examination of behavioural contagion in social networks.

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Disorderly genius: How chaos drives the brain - life - 29 June 2009 - New Scientist

It turns out that the brain is a scale-free small-world network in a state of self-organised criticality. Just like the internet.

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

How your friends' friends can affect your mood - life - 30 December 2008 - New Scientist

The spread of happiness, obesity and smoking habits through social networks.

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Social networks may be imaginary | The Register

My new motto is "The Social Graph is a Spherical Cow."

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

THINKING ABOUT NETWORKS

They never taught this in my school.