Evan Daniel wrote:
> Do we have any understanding of how well network clusters will
> correlate with content clusters?  That is, if there are effectively
> two networks, especially if they result from cultural and language
> barriers, to what extent will the two sides be uninterested in
> communicating with each other?  I think having a ballpark answer to
> that question will go a long way in determining how big a problem this
> really is, and also what sort of solutions might be appropriate.  Of
> course, it sounds hard to answer :)

But all the interesting questions are hard to answer. :-) I asked a 
friend who works on computational trust and he pointed me to some papers 
by Jennifer Golbeck:

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~golbeck/publications.shtml

The short answer appears to be "somewhat".

Cheers,
Michael

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