The Desert of My Dreams

You couldn’t figure out the “World’s Theory” for yourself? It’s just common sense. Anybody knows, ya gotta keep your worlds apart.
- George explaining to Jerry the “World’s Theory” on Seinfeld - The Pool Guy
If you’re a Seinfeld fan like me (as in you’d rather re-watch Seinfeld over and over again as opposed to watching the […]

I celebrated my birthday a few weeks ago.  This year was a bit different from the other 26 birthdays I’ve celebrated in my life - a larger percentage of my social network (and my strongest ties) are distributed across the country (and around the world).  Even when I was going to school at SI, my […]

A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to speak at a private two-day conference (entitled the Conference on Blogs and Democracy) sponsored by the U.S. State Department. I am honored to have been selected and am very grateful for getting the opportunity to hear some of the most influential people in this area […]

Since posting a condensed version of my thesis online, a few people have asked some questions or left feedback about it. I’ve been a bit busy as of late so I haven’t responded as quickly as I usually do to such matters. Apologies and excuses aside, here are my responses to the feedback/questions […]

For anyone who might be interested, I have posted a condensed online version of my master’s thesis, which was a study of relationship formation in three blog communities (Kuwait Blogs, UAE Blogs, and DFW Blogs).
Comments and questions (whether about the results, the experience of doing a master’s thesis at SI, or the online presentation) are […]

del.icio.us has recently rolled out a new feature that allows del.icio.us users to see who is subscribed to their bookmarks through the network (formerly the inbox) feature of del.icio.us. I’ve been wanting to see this feature for a long time so I’m glad it is finally here. I always assumed that the only […]

I had a dream about social network diagrams last night.
I don’t remember much of the dream other than I did some sort of reduction, which caused my network to become fairly disconnected. Nonetheless, due to the reduction, I was able observe some interesting patterns in the network. Central nodes emerged more clearly after […]

Have you ever wondered how the Chinese Zodiac would look on a network diagram? Have you ever wondered if Monkey people are more central than Dragon people? Yeah, you probably haven’t but I did this past Wednesday afternoon. I was waiting for my carry-out order at China Gate (which isn’t great and […]