Saturday, January 04, 2003

Jennifer Government: NationStates. A new book and a new game. (51 words) [markpasc.org] 6:38:26 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Social Network Feedback II. More feedback on the mapping project: Adina Levin on weblog clustering: The reason I get all all excited about weblog clustering is that the "winner-takes-most" aspect of the log scale graph is NOT what is most interesting about weblog networks... The weblog network is a mesh of communities with overlapping and shifting memberships; each subcommunity has its connectors and popular voices.When we focus on identifying the "most central node" of the network, we turn a world with multiple centers into a hierarchy. Jim McGee: As I reflect on this particular analysis, I'm struck by the potential to find additional insight in mapping the bridges between multiple networks. Here we have a group who all belong to two explicit networks. How can we use these tools to get a better sense of how to more effectively navigate through half a dozen different yet interconnected networks? Phil Wolff stereo-, um, well, arche-typing: Two communities (schmoozers and bloggers), two media (Ryze and weblogs), and mutual members... Ryze is a gregarious, directly-social space, blogging is a reluctant, indirectly-social space. Andrea Janssen: So really this [blog data] is the network map of those 16 people, with others only entering the picture as far as they are of importance to them. Big difference to the friends network within the closed Ryze universe. Once you know it you see it - but to represent more adequately that this is a fairly small group with additional outbound contacts it may make sense to color-code those 16 differently. Valdis Krebs: The Friends network has a good data set, the Blog network is missing a lot of data points -- no way to easily collect it. With directional data we can run a Gooogle-like metric[looks at connections but not content] and figure out 'BlogRank'! [Ross Mayfield's Weblog] 6:35:01 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

I can't believe it.... I finally broke down and bought Visual C#. I used PrimalCode for awhile and #develop, but the speed of IntelliSense (the main feature I want) just can't be matched. Plus I've noticed both of the aforementioned products don't always get the IntelliSense right. I'll still be using NAnt for most of my building and deployment needs. As well as NUnit for my testing needs. Also a new tool I've been playing around with is Draco.NET. Works really well with CVS NT. I seem to remember someone mentioning once that there is a Source Control Interface implementation for CVS that allows it to plug into Visual Studio. Is that correct? Also for all you SourceOffSite fans, SourceGear has released pricing for Vault. Vault is a complete replacement for Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, backed by MSSQL Server instead of the file system. Personally, I like the following feature the best - "Furthermore, Vault supports atomic checkin transactions (change sets). When checking in a collection of files, the entire checkin either succeeds or fails as an atomic unit". Plus there is a full page ad in the new MSDN. So they are probably pretty close to releasing. [News from the Forest] 6:32:12 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Expat Bloggers Unite. I was just checking my referrers and noticed the Blogging Abroad page which lists a bunch of Expat Bloggers like myself. Very cool! It's actually well done, with little flags of the nationalities of each blogger and the countries they're in now. I'm sure there's a lot more expat bloggers out there, though... hopefully the list'll grow. It'd be nice to see an OPML list of these blogs, or aggregated like JavaBlogs.com. I'll have to go through the list to see which ones I want to add to Russell's Blog Roll v2003. Actually... this is Yet Another Cool Blog Idea. Just like JavaBlogs.com aggregates those bloggers who share a certain theme - there could be a site that allows bloggers to organize themselves like that. "bGroups.org" could provide the same services, if you think about it. Bloggers could go and sign themselves up for certain categories and then see pages aggregated for that group, download blogrolls, etc. Maybe this already exists? -Russ [Russell Beattie Notebook] 11:00:02 AM    trackback []     Articulate []