Fast ramp to getting to know people? My friend Ron sent me an article by David Pogue, People Rating on the Web? It is a little creepy to ponder what a set of XML tags for the ontology of interpersonal relationships would look like, so that you could slip ratings of people into the web [...]

Inf@Vis! From the com-prac network, a link to a great newsletter on the Visualizing Social Interaction, at InfoVis.net. I was reminded about how important this was on a recent phone session for CPsquare. When people whose names you haven’t heard before introduce themselves on the phone, even when the introductions are managed geographically, it is [...]

UN Petition. I received a UN petition against the war in Iraq and forwarded to my friend Adele. She sent a note to me and a niece of hers, that she received the same petition from both of us, but that the one she received from me had more names on it. I compared the [...]

Duncan Watts (see entry for 1/25) gave a talk at the MIT Media Lab today. I wasn’t able to get into Cambridge to see it, but it was simulcast on the web (the webcast failed 45 minutes into the presentation, but that was not bad). Called, “Six Degrees: Science of the Connected Age,” it was [...]