Posted 12:10 PM by Charles Cameron

Social Network Analysis

I was pleased to run across an ancient entry in geORge brett's blog, InfoArk(ive), today, linking my work to that of Noshir Contractor and others in the field of Social Network Analysis, thus:

Via a personal social network, Ed Vielmetti's Vacuum, I came across a great article today from Peter Moreville at Semantic Studios, "Social Network Analysis". It is a wonderful synopsis of the value and power of Social Network Analysis in organizations. Be sure to take a look at it. In particular he mentions two applications I want to check into: Inflow and Babble.

It spurred two thoughts/memories for me:

The work of Noshir Contractor at UIUC with I-KNOW which is an acronym for Inquiring Knowledge Networks On the Web.

Charles Cameron's Hipbone Games.

What Charles has developed is potentially a strong parallel tool that might serve the Socal Network Analysis framework with another viewpoint.

Bingo!

Thanks, geORge: that's been very much on my mind, though I don't think I've ever expressed it that succinctly.