It is amazing how many of our current problems come down to the realization that it's the network, the connectivity, that matters. In most situations we know how to fix and enhance the nodes in the network. The links, and their patterns and structure, are the hard problem.We are making progress in alternative energy production, but we still fail at energy distribution. Windmills and solar energy collectors have made great progress -- we just can't ...

Everyday I try to look at the Google Analytics [GA] data for my business web site -- orgnet.com -- and my blogs.GA provides various export options of the data it presents to webmasters, so I have started to export some of the interesting views as CSV files which I then import into InFlow for social network analysis.Using the GA data we see some interesting maps. Here are the 10,500+ web pages[red nodes] that point to ...

As we approach the 2008 U.S. presidential election, we notice new books focused on Barack Obama. A few of the books are negative on Oabma and one is positive. The books do not not seem to be making much of a difference. The anti-Obama books are being read by those already predisposed against him and the pro-Obama book is solidly in the group supporting him. The din from both sides grows louder -- yes he ...