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RT @connected_book: very nice paper by Damon Centola on 'complex contagion' in networks http://bit.ly/dmt4Hg 2010-09-02

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Network-y visual introduction to the Annenberg Networks Network research group (@USCANN ) out of @USCAnnenberg http://bit.ly/uscann #sna 2010-08-20

People evaluate online source credibility collectively & use cognitive heuristics: Metzger Flanagin & Medders in J Comm http://bit.ly/b7pGmI 2010-08-20

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Zuckerman (aka @EthanZ ) writes a CNN op-ed about Facebook, imaginary cosmopolitans and echo chamber effects: http://bit.ly/dpisN7 2010-08-03

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The @Gephi software does seem to be doing well at #Sunbelt :) 2010-07-02

Padgett & Powell to address the problem of actor emergence in network analysis – “the black hole of genesis” – in an upcoming book #Sunbelt 2010-07-02

Good news: Bulgaria central in chess networks. Bad news: John Kelly’s presentation on news memes got canceled :-/ #sunbelt 2010-07-03

David Lazer @ the Web Science panel at #Sunbelt: we now have the vast opportunity to discover utterly trivial data. Research design matters. 2010-07-03

@lanalana Heh, not to worry – I’ve never been a fan of vowels anyway ;) 2010-07-04

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RT @MITOCW: Course published: Doctoral Seminar in Engineering Systems, Fall 2009 | http://bit.ly/aJqABq 2010-06-23

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New report on cloud computing from @Pew_Internet: http://bit.ly/aag8MW. Experts say the PC is a fad and it’s time for it to go away. Hmm… 2010-06-12

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@arthurtejeda Have not played with igraph yet. Downloaded it for further inspection some time ago tho, website description looked quite neat in reply to arthurtejeda 03:24:46, 2010-05-28

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Two #SNA articles in the last JoC: Atouba & Shumate (org nets) http://bit.ly/ce2DLm; Barnett, Danowski et al (PhD nets) http://bit.ly/9cYkMO 00:32:31, 2010-05-21

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Gentzkow & Shapiro 2010 study finds no echo chamber effect online. Not too sure about the validity of their conclusion http://bit.ly/dicjYB 09:17:27, 2010-05-02

A morning of SNAP: the Stanford Network Analysis Platform. Nice collection of large scale #network datasets there. http://bit.ly/amNaog #sna 13:30:38, 2010-05-02

Good Sunday read. RT @USCANN: Hot off the presses: Valente and Fujimoto on critical network connectors http://bit.ly/bpPcbO #sna #networks 13:32:19, 2010-05-02

From my ever expanding Spelling Mishap Archive:”critical evaluation kills” true as it may be differs from “critical evaluation Skills” #LFMF 14:24:27, 2010-05-03

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Barbie Zelizer on ACTV: #Journalism does not affect social change. Journalistic institutions are no longer legitimate. http://bit.ly/bAMoYd 07:45:46, 2010-04-27

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Note2Self: When looking for quote of Putin dissing the Net as being 50% porn, do NOT try a search for “Putin pornography” in Russian #LFMF 18:02:23, 2010-04-20

@hornOKplease It is sound advice, trust me on that one :) All is well at Annenberg, hope you’re not having much volcano trouble in London 18:24:36, 2010-04-20

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Point taken RT @genevaoh: More news is consumed online than in newspapers.Yet 80% of that content has nothing original in it:Schmidt to ASNE 15:49:29, 2010-04-11

In #network & evolutionary studies on #media orgs, it’s a pain to define population boundaries. Since the Web, circulation area doesn’t help 18:00:47, 2010-04-11

So – define focal news outlet population through market structure? Look at audience segmentation? Apart for Dimmick, not much help from lit. 18:04:10, 2010-04-11

Interesting work… RT @Gephi Visualizing Texts as Networks http://bit.ly/9Bzbzb #madewithgephi #gexf #dataset #sna 20:19:48, 2010-04-13

RT @librarycongress Library to acquire ENTIRE Twitter archive — ALL public tweets, ever, since March 2006! Details to follow. via @cuihua 10:45:40, 2010-04-14

.@evgenymorozov Heh, a crisis of identity is in order. I’m from Bulgaria & most of my students think that’s a different spelling for Belarus 16:37:35, 2010-04-14

“The Blogs” is no longer a meaningful category. Too broad to be useful: NYT blogs, Daily Kos, Gawker & teen personal diaries r all in it 16:49:02, 2010-04-14

.@barrywellman Proud to have been a Soviet satellite ;) Students also ask: “how do you live there w/o Internet?” My BG access speed > in US 16:56:01, 2010-04-14

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Turns out you can really feel a 6.9 #earthquake in a 30-story building @ downtown LA. A little shaken (pun intended) but no damage. 16:16:57, 2010-04-04

Difficult to compare. RT @NiemanLab: Print still reigns: only 4.5% of newspaper pageviews happened online June09-Feb10 http://j.mp/aOaU13 12:26:00, 2010-04-05

So survey perception of left/right bias for major outlets? @Pew_Internet: 72% adults think most news sources are biased http://bit.ly/9UM2hB 12:22:31, 2010-04-06

RT @marcusmessner: Court Says F.C.C. Cannot Require ‘Net Neutrality’ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/technology/07net.html?hp 12:33:07, 2010-04-06

Look up #freekg, #bishkek, and #kyrgyzstan for latest tweets from Kyrgyzstan. Easier to follow for ppl who understand Russian. 00:18:38, 2010-04-08

Good point. Google Translate, FF addon or greasemonkey script can help ppl get translation RT @coach_char: http://bit.ly/aWV2Gy translates 00:26:44, 2010-04-08

As expected “The Revolution Will Be Tweeted” is once again in news titles http://bit.ly/a6FXHG Time for @evgenymorozov ‘s next column, no? 00:30:48, 2010-04-08

RT @evgenymorozov: I couldn’t resist the temptation: Kyrgyzstan’s ‘Analog Revolution’, my blog post over at FP: http://bit.ly/bPm3iV 10:54:15, 2010-04-08

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Subway suicide bombing in Moscow likely a retaliation for Russian raids in Ingushetia. Sad story. http://bit.ly/a97bUT 05:03:04, 2010-03-29

Note to self: academic text is sensitive to minor spelling errors. Like “researchers worth noting” & “researchers worth nothing” #LFMF 00:36:28, 2010-04-02

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RT @SaveTheNews: Do people agree with this? // How Blogs Are Becoming More Like Newspapers: http://networkedblogs.com/1rr8Y 16:15:13, 2010-03-20

@SaveTheNews Which blogs? The big, multi-author (oft. paid-for) news ones that compete w online newsppers? Well yes, _those_ are converging. 16:19:39, 2010-03-20

@SaveTheNews @kateto “paid for” as in “the authors get paid to post”, so it’s a job, not a hobby for them… 16:22:24, 2010-03-20

Local elections in Russia, the old tricks. Still: go bloggers! RT @globalvoices: Russia: Bloggers Expose Election Fraud http://bit.ly/9Cep0v 16:47:18, 2010-03-20

RT @valdiskrebs: Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy — http://bit.ly/cUv6iK 02:16:27, 2010-03-23

@valdiskrebs Was just thinking about this, stumbled into the “Whuffie Bank” twitter reputation measures today http://bit.ly/cm758d in reply to valdiskrebs 02:17:43, 2010-03-23

@valdiskrebs Right; btw nice that Cha et al look at topic dynamics – you’ve got to have that in addition to net structre to get at influence in reply to valdiskrebs 03:10:12, 2010-03-23

White House disappointed, they’d like Google to stay in China & not be censored. And I’d like a pony. http://bit.ly/b2kuPv (via @jeffjarvis) 03:30:29, 2010-03-23

Newspapers having a really rough year, says NAA http://bit.ly/aQRpQS but at least their owners can now buy TV stations http://bit.ly/aDp9wt 19:15:14, 2010-03-24

Not unexpected: @PewResearch report just out says census non-participation best predicted by age. Youth won’t respond. http://bit.ly/9FfOCB 19:35:17, 2010-03-24

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