Danah Boyd has taken on (publically, in SOCNET) the task of collecting information about digital social networks (Friendster and its ilk), in connected selves. Therein many great links and tidbits about how people use these internet-assisted linkages.

Now, I’m starting on the path of thinking about the differences between transactional networks and learning networks. It may have been a conversation with Bill Snyder (researcher into social networks and social capital and really generous thinker) that I had last week, or maybe some other recent connection who used the distinction…