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mars 14, 2004

Fler sociala nätverkskurser -- Eller: När fel kan bli intressant

Den väldigt nya bloggen Random digressions from a man with big hair har hittills endast tre anteckningar, samtliga om sociala nätverk och relaterade ämnen.

Normalt skulle jag endast lägga in bloggen i Bloglines för vidare bevakning, men dess tagline How to get an A in 208B gjorde mig lite nyfiken. Vad är "208B" för någon kurs?

Den första googleförekomsten är SOCIOL 208B LEC 1: Social Network Methods som verkar skoj. Full med länkar och datamängder. Se även föreläsarens Rick Grannis hemsida.

Nu tror jag inte att det var denna kurs som bloggen refererar till. Troligen är det i stället INFOSYS 208B: Analysis of Information Organizations, men den sidan har inte alls lika mycket intressant information.

Bloggaren heter David Schlossberg vars hemsida themeat.org kan bjuda på saker såsom Guide to Slacking. Citat: Slacking is the skill of making it seem like you're doing your job when you're not. I say "skill" and not "art" because this is something that you can train to do, not something that you're born with..


Uppdatering
Till slut hittades också en betydligt mer intressant kurssida: IS 208B Analysis of Information Organizations, där det även finns blogg assigments, vilka ovanstående är exe

Det finns en anhopning slika bloggar:

Sarah Ellinger, 208B Social networking like a MACHINE
Jeannie's Blog
sindikk.aeshin
Prickly Monkey Yuppie Foxy
my crazy social networking [we]blog
vmakam A blog for a class at Berkeley for Digital Social Networks
danah's 208B weblog
shelby Blog for Infosys 208B assignments and reading responses.
Musings of a Information Management Drama Queen
Not Quite a blog
brooke's 208 webrant
Shane Ahern IS 208B
CULTURAL.CA Reflections on culture from a Canadian-born Chinese studying in the United States
mspring
cdclph

Här är en lista på (vissa av) deltagarna i kursen.

Posted by hakank at mars 14, 2004 11:34 FM Posted to Social Network Analysis/Complex Networks

Comments

Hej Håkan!

My friend and klasskompis David Schlossberg found your link to his site. He asked me to translate your entry for him because I can read Swedish. What he wanted to know, and I wasn't able to find out, is how you found his 208B blog. (Han är för blyg att frågar dig själv.) He has done nothing to publicize it and did not expect to find your link. He sent your entry out to our class, and people were very surprised to see that our blogs were found by someone outside of our school.

Thanks!
Lisa

Posted by: Lisa deLH at maj 4, 2004 07:25 EM

Hi Lisa and David,

I don't remember exactly how I found David's blog. It was probably via some search subscription on Bloglines, http://www.bloglines.com , most likely "social networks" or "John Allen Paulos". How and why David's blog came into the Bloglines system in the first place, I don't know.

If I recall correctly, google already had a link to David's blog, so it could have been via some google search I found the blog.

At first, the mysterious tagline "How to get an A in 208B" made me curious; I am a sucker for these kind of mysteries :-). When I after some googling found that danah boyd (of which I'm a great fan) was involved, it became really interesting to know more about the course.

I sincerely hope that the publication of the links didn't offend anyone.


Regards

Håkan

Posted by: Håkan Kjellerstrand at maj 4, 2004 08:52 EM