January 2003 archives

January 28, 2003 by Patti

Following my recent post, I received email from Rene de Vries in Holland, who runs a Dutch community of interest on knowledge management. Rene worked at Digital during the same period that I did, and I remembered his name from many NOTES conferences. Rene said in his email, The funny part is that I continue [...]

January 27, 2003 by Patti

Thinking about collaboration today, I was telling my friend Karl over coffee about joining CPsquare. (more on this later or another day). He asked me if I remembered the relationship between Lotus Notes and VAX NOTES. (We are both alumni of Digital Equipment, one of the first networked companies, where communities of interest and communities [...]

January 26, 2003 by Patti

Well, SOCNET (the listserv for researchers in social networks and complexity), had a number of things to say about this NYT article. Barry Wellman sent the following to the New York Times: Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:02:33 -0500 From: Barry Wellman To: new york times letters Cc: duncan watts Subject: Erroneous facts Emily Eakin’s [...]

January 25, 2003 by Patti

Valis Krebs, a role model for anyone looking to use SNA in organizational development, points out an article in the New York Times, “Connect, They Say, Only Connect,” an interview with Duncan Watts at Columbia University. He is publishing a new book next month, Six Degrees: The Science of the Connected Age, next month. He [...]

January 21, 2003 by Patti

Booz Allen’s strategy+business newsletter is publishing articles on networks, social network analysis and complexity. Karen Stephenson talks about her work in Karen Stephenson’s Quantum Theory of Trust, where she emphasizes the element of trust. Another recent article is a review by Michael Shrage on the wonderful book, Linked, by Albert-László Barabási, Network Theory’s New Math. [...]