Bill,
Phil,
I don't know whether the reason that people create images of the unknown
is important to your work, and if it's not then what I'm saying here is
moot, but I really take a strong exception to categorizing this as the
product of "laziness".
[PH] Oh, I'm not referring to actual lazines
Phil,
I don't know whether the reason that people create images of the unknown
is important to your work, and if it's not then what I'm saying here is
moot, but I really take a strong exception to categorizing this as the
product of "laziness". What Lippman noted, and what is still true today,
is
Bill,
That makes sense, although I don't know if it necessarily needs to be a
negative image. There's a strong desire to create images which support
one's own self-image or sense of place, so if one of the "aliens"
appears to be an enemy of your enemy you would tend to assign that alien
a posit
Phil,
That makes sense, although I don't know if it necessarily needs to be a
negative image. There's a strong desire to create images which support
one's own self-image or sense of place, so if one of the "aliens" appears
to be an enemy of your enemy you would tend to assign that alien a
positive
Bill,
Do you think there's anything to my idea that part of the reason for the
negative images assigned to 'aliens' from the disconnected parts of the
larger world, about whom we know almost nothing, is that it's just an easier
way to cover up the natural edges where the quality of information
fal
Phil, what you describe here is exactly what Lippman describes in his
book. Lippman notes that most people in the early 20th century literally
have very small circles of acquaintances, and then have even smaller
circles of confidantes, and that within each of these hives there's a
certain consiste
On 8/25/07, phil henshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Well, the intense 'hive' of relationships between airline attendants at
> an airline 'hub' also counts, though they appear at different levels of
> the airline network organization. A lot of the appearance of things has
> to do with how you
Phil, it sounds from the follow-on conversation so far like you're mainly
interested in *quantifying* the relationships between "hives" and "hubs",
which is well outside my purview, but if you're interested in a
discussion of *why* different people fail to effectively communicate, and
how that rela
>> I'm not sure how Hubs and Hives connect in your analogy.
>> Airports are
>> Hubs and cities are Hives... if I understand your meaning.
>>
>
> Well, the intense 'hive' of relationships between airline attendants at
> an airline 'hub' also counts, though they appear at different leve
> Phil
> >
> > Do you know anyone else working on this?
> I have been "noodling" on it for some time. Nothing
> published exactly.
> >
> >
> > In thinking over what the measure of 'distance' between nodes in
> > networks means (the nominally 5 degrees of separation for
> people and
>
Phil
>
> Do you know anyone else working on this?
I have been "noodling" on it for some time. Nothing published exactly.
>
>
> In thinking over what the measure of 'distance' between nodes in
> networks means (the nominally 5 degrees of separation for people and
> 19 degrees for web pa
phil henshaw wrote:
> Do you know anyone else working on this?
Duncan Watts, http://cdg.columbia.edu/cdg/projects
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Do you know anyone else working on this?
In thinking over what the measure of 'distance' between nodes in
networks means (the nominally 5 degrees of separation for people and 19
degrees for web pages) it's occurred to me there are two very different
sides of connection. Natural system n
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