Connecte Dness

  • Subscribe to our RSS feed.
  • Twitter
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Facebook
  • Digg

Thursday, 19 June 2008

Network Centrality: All Your Links Are Belong to Us

Posted on 09:09 by Unknown
Yesterday was a full moon. Tomorrow is the longest day of the year. What better day to celebrate the brightest metric known to network science: centrality.

Connectedness celebrates centrality by putting Google, the world's most popular centrality-based tool, to work. For any set of keywords you can imagine, Google points you to the center of that universe. Each link below does exactly that, using the highlighted text as the keywords. Results are real-time and may change after this post goes to press.
  • Network Centrality: The center of this universe is Steve Borgatti. Yeah!
  • Organizational Network: The center of this universe is Valdis Krebs. Kudos to you, Valdis. I am jealous.
  • Community Network: Apparently centered in Seattle. Interesting. How did Seattle beat out Portland, OR?
  • Collaboration, Innovation: Centered on Dave Pollard. This confirms my excellent impression of him from a couple months ago--which was the first I heard of him.
  • Leadership, and most other words you care to look up: Wikipedia has the first answer you will find.
No celebration of centrality would be complete without asking, "What universe am I the center of?" For Connectedness, the answer is: sears refrigerator customer service repairman. To all my readers, let me say: Welcome to the inner sanctum.

While you're celebrating having "arrived," let me add that this weekend is the fourth birthday of Connectedness. All the more reason for jubilation.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License and is copyrighted (c) 2007 by Connective Associates LLC except where otherwise noted.

Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Posted in | No comments
Newer Post Older Post Home

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Popular Posts

  • Happy, or at least healthy endings
    Yesterday was the 8th anniversary of my first Connectedness post , but it's been 3 years since I was even semi-active in this space. One...
  • Technology, sociology, and networks
    Behind the scenes at Connectedness , I have been talking to more computer scientists and fewer sociologists, relative to previous months. I ...
  • Social capital of twenty-first-century leaders, by Daniel Brass and David Krackhardt
    How do effective leaders manage relationships with their team members? Dan Brass and David Krackhardt put this question in context: "...
  • Structural equivalence: related tags in social bookmarking
    In my " Holy Trinity of Network Power ," structural equivalence is conceptually the most obscure. But practically speaking, it is ...
  • Weekend edition: SWMSNA seeks SWF
    It is the great tradition of science that our biggest discoveries often emerge from the smoldering ashes of our most disappointing failures....
  • Weekend Edition: Flesh-Eating Zombies
    As part of my final preparations for Sunbelt XXV , I watched a dramatic treatment of infection networks. 28 Days Later is the modern-day st...
  • What is My Network Value Worth?
    Pedro Domingos and Matt Richardson analyze the power of viral marketing in their paper, " Mining the Network Value of Customers ....
  • Sunbelt Goes to the Oscars
    I am dried off from the record-setting rains of Sunbelt XXV and ready to start reflecting... about this weekend's big Oscar hoo-ha (sor...
  • Searchable leadership networks bibliography
    Our new Link-to-Results site features a categorized searchable bibliography . Of all the pages on the site, this one has generated by far ...
  • Process networks in medical research
    I tripped over this interesting post by John Hagel : " Process networks in medical research ," in which he describes the Myelin Re...

Blog Archive

  • ►  2012 (1)
    • ►  June (1)
  • ►  2010 (3)
    • ►  June (2)
    • ►  May (1)
  • ►  2009 (22)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  September (2)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (5)
    • ►  May (4)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ▼  2008 (36)
    • ►  December (3)
    • ►  November (2)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  September (6)
    • ►  August (4)
    • ►  July (2)
    • ▼  June (8)
      • Network Centrality: Making Us Stupid, Says Atlanti...
      • Network Centrality: More Current Events
      • Network Centrality: Size Does Matter
      • Network Centrality: All Your Links Are Belong to Us
      • Holy Trinity of Network Power
      • Fathers of Connectedness
      • Cell phone spying, physics, and ethics
      • Ownership and the Power of Networks
    • ►  May (4)
    • ►  April (3)
    • ►  February (1)
    • ►  January (2)
  • ►  2007 (42)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (2)
    • ►  September (6)
    • ►  August (6)
    • ►  July (5)
    • ►  June (8)
    • ►  May (4)
    • ►  March (3)
    • ►  February (1)
    • ►  January (5)
  • ►  2006 (63)
    • ►  December (4)
    • ►  October (2)
    • ►  September (2)
    • ►  August (3)
    • ►  July (7)
    • ►  June (10)
    • ►  May (10)
    • ►  April (4)
    • ►  March (8)
    • ►  February (6)
    • ►  January (7)
  • ►  2005 (136)
    • ►  December (11)
    • ►  November (13)
    • ►  October (11)
    • ►  September (9)
    • ►  August (10)
    • ►  July (10)
    • ►  June (10)
    • ►  May (12)
    • ►  April (13)
    • ►  March (15)
    • ►  February (9)
    • ►  January (13)
  • ►  2004 (99)
    • ►  December (9)
    • ►  November (18)
    • ►  October (13)
    • ►  September (16)
    • ►  August (15)
    • ►  July (20)
    • ►  June (8)
Powered by Blogger.

About Me

Unknown
View my complete profile