{"id":73,"date":"2006-07-14T03:17:19","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T03:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/?p=73"},"modified":"2006-07-14T03:18:08","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T03:18:08","slug":"newbies-view-of-a-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Newbie’s view of a Network"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started poking around in omidyar.net<\/a> a few days ago, curious if it can be a resource for locating activist techs and funding. As I’m not really a member of any of the “social networking” sites, I don’t really have a sense of the social protocol. It is kind of like stepping blind into a cocktail party. A few people immediatly contacted me, but I didn’t know who they were other than by reading their profiles. So I got curious about the structure of communication of the site. After a day or so of coding with a little help from carnivore<\/a>, htmlparser <\/a>and sonia<\/a>, I’ve got a few pictures of the network of positive feedback on comments. (people have the ability to give points to eachother’s posts in the fourms, kinda like slashdot)
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yup, its one of those “peacock on the windshield” inkblots. I labled myself, all the way out in the astroid belt. Here is a closer look at the core:<\/p>\n

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Here I labeled a few of the people with the most feedback (sorry for the name truncation). Both of these were done by doing a snowball sample from the list of newbies. The graph is large enough I had to do this with FR algorithm, so I don’t trust the positions that much. I don’t think I’ve got the link tracing code quite right yet, but I think there is some potential. Part of the problem is designing a good weighted snowball procedure that won’t oversample the core. If we had the time data, I could probably do movies… and there is lots of data about communication between groups, but I guess for that we can wait until they complete an API.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I started poking around in omidyar.net a few days ago, curious if it can be a resource for locating activist techs and funding. As I’m not really a member of any of the “social networking” sites, I don’t really have a sense of the social protocol. It is kind of like stepping blind into a … Continue reading Newbie’s view of a Network<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}