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 to [...]

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 [...]

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 story Jan 25 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]