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The Valve - A Literary Organ | Mouthpieces, Mind, and Matter
"Last month Jane Bennett gave a talk at New York’s New School entitled “Powers of the Hoard: Artistry and Agency in a World of Vibrant Matter”. She was interested in the question of whether or not compulsive hoarders have a particular affinity for matter, specifically, the matter of/in the things they so assiduously collect. The purpose of this post is to ask a similar question about trumpet players and their mouthpieces. Some have only a few, while others have hundreds."
collecting  hoarding  multicriterion-decisionmaking  sociology  psychoceramics  eccentricity  diversity 
october 2011 by Vaguery
[1106.0296] The Emergence of Leadership in Social Networks
"We study a networked version of the minority game in which agents can choose to follow the choices made by a neighbouring agent in a social network. We show that for a wide variety of networks a leadership structure always emerges, with most agents following the choice made by a few agents. We find a suitable parameterisation which highlights the universal aspects of the behaviour and which also indicates where results depend on the type of social network."
minority-game  social-networks  sociology  agent-based  network-theory 
august 2011 by Vaguery
Designing Incentives for Crowdsourcing Workers | The CrowdFlower Blog
"Why do BTS and punishing workers for disagreement succeed in improving performance significantly where so many of the other incentive schemes failed? The answer hinges on the fact that both conditions tied workers’ payoffs to their ability to think about their peers’ likely responses. (We elaborate on the argument in more detail in the paper.)"
crowdsourcing  collaboration  collective-attention  sociology  economics  via:Cory-Doctorow 
may 2011 by Vaguery
The Return of the Phantom Time Menace « Easily Distracted
"In many ways, this intensified recurrence may be something we can learn from rather than worry about. I think it’s sociologically interesting when or if readers have the same reaction to these kinds of fringe stories as they recur and recirculate. It tells us something about where such stories exist in larger productions of knowledge and information, that we have a firmly marked off niche for “well, that’s nuts but non-offensively so”. The story makes no lasting impression on us, we don’t learn it or incorporate it, it doesn’t challenge us, but we also have a continuing expectation that these stories will continue to be with us and continue to be of interest to us. We’re not repelled by them, not transformed by them, we expect them and find them momentarily intriguing."
psychoceramics  sociology  cultural-dynamics  conspiracy-theories  belief 
may 2011 by Vaguery
What Bureaucracy Looks Like
photography  exhibition  bureaucracy  worklife  sociology  cultural-norms 
may 2011 by Vaguery
James on Habit
"…Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty, so that, when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test."
habit  psychology  sociology  William-James  advice  learning 
may 2011 by Vaguery
Gossip, Collaboration, and Performance in Distributed Teams « Skilful Minds
Those corporations that successfully implement these techniques will be torn apart as their traditional hierarchies and silos dissolve into right-sized communities; those that fail will be nibbled to death by community-based "competitors" who ignore those hierarchies. Either way, it's full of win.
disintermediation-in-action  corporations  sociology  collaboration  management  anarchy-in-the-boardroom 
may 2011 by Vaguery
Empathy and Collaboration in Social Business Design « Skilful Minds
Collaboration means getting to know that other employees possess expertise on this or that topic, but also developing comfort with one another by sharing significant symbols relating to self, family, friends, and social activities, thereby understanding one another as people.
workantile-exchange  collaboration  community  sociology  membership 
may 2011 by Vaguery
[1004.1854] Contribution Games in Social Networks
"In this paper we have proposed and studied a simple model of contribution games, in which agents can invest a fixed budget into different relationships. Our results show that collaboration between pairs of players can lead to instabilities and non-existence of pairwise equilibria. For certain classes of functions, the existence of pairwise equilibria is even NP-hard to decide. This implies that it is impossible to decide efficiently if a set of players in a game can reach a pairwise equilibrium. For many interesting classes of games, however, we are able to show existence and bound the price of anarchy to 2. This includes, for instance, a class of games with general convex functions, or minimum effort games with concave functions. Here we are also able to show that best response dynamics converge to pairwise equilibria."
game-theory  context-is-a-feature-not-a-bug  agent-based  microeconomics  nudge-targets  sociology 
august 2010 by Vaguery
[1006.4622] A High-Resolution Human Contact Network for Infectious Disease Transmission
"… Using wireless sensor network technology, we obtained high-resolution data of CPIs during a typical day at an American high school, permitting the reconstruction of the social network relevant for infectious disease transmission. At a 94% coverage, we collected 762,868 CPIs at a maximal distance of 3 meters among 788 individuals. The data revealed a high density network with typical small world properties and a relatively homogenous distribution of both interaction time and interaction partners among subjects.…"
epidemiology  network-theory  social-networks  real-data  complexology  sociology 
june 2010 by Vaguery
[1006.4271] A Community Membership Life Cycle Model
"…In this work, we give a short overview of traditional community roles. We adapt those models and apply them to virtual online communities. We suggest a community membership life cycle model describing roles a user can take during his membership in a community. Our model is systematic and generic; it can be adapted to concrete communities in the web. The knowledge of a community's life cycle allows influencing the group structure: Stage transitions can be supported or harmed, e.g. to strengthen the binding of a user to a site and keep communities alive."
social-engineering  social-norms  social-dynamics  online  web-culture  online-communities  sociology 
june 2010 by Vaguery
[1005.4376] Characterizing the community structure of complex networks
"Community structure is one of the key properties of complex networks and plays a crucial role in their topology and function. While an impressive amount of work has been done on the issue of community detection, very little attention has been so far devoted to the investigation of communities in real networks. We present a systematic empirical analysis of the statistical properties of communities in large information, communication, technological, biological, and social networks. We find that the mesoscopic organization of networks of the same category is remarkably similar. This is reflected in several characteristics of community structure, which can be used as ``fingerprints'' of specific network categories.…"
social-networks  network-theory  classification  empirical-economics  physics  sociology  complexology 
may 2010 by Vaguery
The Monkey Cage: Visualizing World Peace
"As many of you likely know, the World Bank has opened up its World Development Indicators Data for everyone to play with. Matthew Russell has thrown together a nice simple tool to generate visualizations of the data. Fun stuff."
public-policy  datasets  visualization  world-bank  sociology  metrics 
may 2010 by Vaguery
[1005.4006] Temporal Link Prediction using Matrix and Tensor Factorizations
"…Through several nu- merical experiments, we demonstrate that both matrix- and tensor-based techniques are effective for temporal link prediction despite the inherent difficulty of the problem. Additionally, we show that tensor-based techniques are particularly effective for temporal data with varying periodic patterns."
nudge-targets  prediction  social-networks  sociology  marketing  recommendations  linear-programming 
may 2010 by Vaguery
American Individualism: Exceptional? » Sociological Images
"The argument and the answers clearly revolve around how we define (or operationalize) “individualism.” In any case, the comparative data does put the U.S. into perspective and Fischer’s discussion leaves a lot to unpack."
that-word-you-keep-using  individualism  sociology  cultural-assumptions  cultural-norms  self-definition 
may 2010 by Vaguery
Why You Should Lie in Your Online Dating Profile » Sociological Images
'It turns out that people’s stated preferences have a weak relationship to who they actually like. Stated preferences, one study found, “seemed to vanish when it came time to choose a partner in physical space.”'
sociology  social-norms  survey-data  marketing  models-and-modes  relevance-theory  pragmatics 
may 2010 by Vaguery
'Forced' Part-Time Employment Increases -- Seeking Alpha
"In the last two months, involuntary part-time employment has increased by 738,000. See Table A-8. This implies that either (1) more people who were already employed have been reduced to part-time status or (2) part-time positions are being added to payrolls."
employment  financial-crisis  worklife  sociology  cultural-dynamics  risk-redistribution 
april 2010 by Vaguery
Stowe Boyd - /message - Clay Shirky on The Collapse Of Complex Business Models
"When complex systems collapse, it starts by people simply wandering away, going over the hill. They don't pay their taxes to Rome anymore. They ignore copyright protections. They accept inferior web hosting for $6/month from some low rent company, instead of paying AT&T $60. They make videos with a Flip camera instead of a $20,000 Betamax."
collapsonomics  sociology  business-culture  business-model  assumptions 
april 2010 by Vaguery
The Collapse of Complex Business Models « Clay Shirky
"…But there is one compensating advantage for the people who escape the old system: when the ecosystem stops rewarding complexity, it is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future."
coworking  disintermediation-in-action  sociology  business-culture  business-model-failure  cultural-norms 
april 2010 by Vaguery
Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Vampires and Zombies: Transnational Transformations
"Contributors are invited to submit papers on aspects of zombies and vampires as they relate to texts and media across cultural boundaries."
conferences  academia  horror  criticism  sociology  media-studies  popular-culture 
february 2010 by Vaguery
Rich People Things: David Brooks and the Myth of the New Fair Society | The Awl
"One can only gesture broadly at the cavernous dioramas of fallacy and illogic on display here, but a good place to begin is with this column’s woeful opening assertion that the C. Wright Mills classic The Power Elite—published in 1956, the putative heyday of balmy aristocratic management of the investment economy—somehow chronicled the ongoing social dominance of WASP primogeniture. Mills did argue that old family fortunes continued to loom disproportionately over the country’s long-term wealth profile—but more important, he maintained that the defining structural features of the power elite arose from its mastery of the technocratic military state created in the first flush of the Cold War."
David-Brooks  review  culture-war  cultural-assumptions  social-norms  sociology  American-cultural-assumptions  economics  clubbiness  elitism 
february 2010 by Vaguery
How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America - The Atlantic(March 2010)
'“We haven’t seen anything like this before: a really deep recession combined with a really extended period, maybe as much as eight years, all told, of highly elevated unemployment,” Shierholz told me. “We’re about to see a big national experiment on stress.”'
financial-crisis  economics  unemployment  not-an-employee  sociology  cultural-norms  American-cultural-assumptions  politics  capitalism  capital  types-of  great-employment-shift 
february 2010 by Vaguery
Three-Toed Sloth
"[W]hy didn't prints displace paintings the same way that printed books displaced manuscript codices? Why didn't it become expected that visual artists, like writers, would primarily produce works for reproduction?"
art  media  disintermediation  history  publishing  painting  prints  intellectual-property  craftsmanship  social-norms  sociology  self-definition 
february 2010 by Vaguery
Baffler - Journals of the Crisis Year
"Perhaps full-scale economic devastation was the only way to restore the sense of “intimate and inextricable relation to the society” around us that Tom Wolfe famously hoped to instill in readers of his 1987 crash-lit classic Bonfire of the Vanities, one of the last memorable explorations of the morally hazardous culture of the Master of the Universe class."
economics  sociology  capitalism  financial-crisis  economic-crisis  public-policy  governance  non-governance 
february 2010 by Vaguery
PeteSearch: How to split up the US
"Stretching from New York to Minnesota, this belt's defining feature is how near most people are to their friends, implying they don't move far. In most cases outside the largest cities, the most common connections are with immediately neighboring cities, and even New York only has one really long-range link in its top 10. Apart from Los Angeles, all of its strong ties are comparatively local."
social-networks  cultural-norms  sociology  American-cultural-assumptions  Facebook  geography  network-culture  visualization  GIS 
february 2010 by Vaguery
RSA - How bad biology killed the economy
"And for those who keep looking to biology for an answer, the fundamental yet rarely asked question is why natural selection designed our brains so that we’re in tune with our fellow human beings and feel distress at their distress, and pleasure at their pleasure. If the exploitation of others were all that mattered, evolution should never have got into the empathy business. But it did, and the political and economic elites had better grasp that in a hurry."
sociobiology  sociology  economics  collaboration  competition  genetic-excuses  libertarianism-as-mutation 
december 2009 by Vaguery
Contrary Brin: The betrayal of the smart sons
"It doesn’t have to be science, though that is where I found these refugees from the aristocracy, most often. It might also be the arts, or starting a new company from scratch, in a completely different field. Any way you look at it, this trend has to be viewed with admiration.

Alas, it may also be one of the principal reasons that American capitalism is going down the toilet. Because... who is left behind, minding the store? Oh. Yeah. I already answered that question. "
politics  cultural-norms  aristocracy  elitism  American-cultural-assumptions  Babbittism  survivorship-bias  testable-hypotheses  sociology  social-networks 
december 2009 by Vaguery
YouTube - I'm on the Phone
"WITH A FIVE PERCENT P MOTHERFUCKER"
sociology  via:mahatm  research  survey  academic-culture  graduate-school 
october 2009 by Vaguery
apophenia: Twitter: "pointless babble" or peripheral awareness + social grooming?
"We like the fact that humans are social. It's good for society. And what they're doing online is fundamentally a mix of social grooming and maintaining peripheral social awareness. They want to know what the people around them are thinking and doing and feeling, even when co-presence isn't viable. They want to share their state of mind and status so that others who care about them feel connected. It's a back-and-forth that makes sense if only we didn't look down at it from outter space."
twitter  social-norms  sociology  community  web2.0  MSM  then-they-dismiss-you 
october 2009 by Vaguery
Very off topic: Why I won't be at my high school reunion : Good Math, Bad Math
"My reaction to them... What the fuck is wrong with you people? Why would you think that I would want to have anything to do with you? How do you have the chutzpah to act as if we're old friends? How dare you? I see the RSVP list that one of you sent me, and I literally feel nauseous just remembering your names."
high-school  sociology  cultural-norms  abuse  geek  psychology  bullying  social-psychology  reunions  Facebook 
july 2009 by Vaguery
Mario Romero
"I am interested in simple but robust computer vision and information visualization techniques that support interactive analysis of human behavior in multi-stream video. My advisor is Dr. Gregory Abowd."
via:jyew  sociology  worklife  patterns  visualization  networks  social-dynamics  video 
may 2009 by Vaguery
Parallel play - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Parallel play is also sometimes observed in older children when playing video games..."

[and coworkers]
via-JeremySeligman  play  psychology  education  development  attention  cognition  community  dynamics  sociology 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Model D - Whiskey Town: As Blowout Beckons, a Look at Hamtramck's Barroom Legacy
"Kowalski says that bars were used to grow political bases and owners were very civic-minded people. "Social organizations were formed at bars and city meetings were held at bars. Bars sponsored events and sports teams. They weren't just bars," Kowalski says."
mentioned-in-passing  local  history  Hamtramck  sociology  community 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Love thy neighbour: Why have we become so suspicious of kindness? |
"The most long-standing suspicion about kindness is that it is just narcissism in disguise. We are kind because it makes us feel good about ourselves: kindly people are self-approbation junkies. Encountering this argument in the 1730s, the philosopher Francis Hutcheson dispatched it briskly: "If this is self-love, be it so ... Nothing can be better than this self-love, nothing more generous.""
kindness  altruism  sociology  cultural-norms  politics  philosophy  psychology  competition  individualism  respect 
january 2009 by Vaguery
Sociological Images » THE TRUTH ABOUT INFECTED CIGARS: FAITH IN SCIENCE
"Maybe someday we’ll think of soap that isn’t anti-bacterial as a high-quality, artisanal product."
advertising  marketing  sociology  hygiene  smoking  cultural-engineering  technology  manufacturing  craftsman  artisanal 
december 2008 by Vaguery
GeekPress
"High school students in Maryland are using speed cameras as a tool to fine innocent drivers in a game, according to the Montgomery County Sentinel newspaper. Because photo enforcement devices will automatically mail out a ticket to any registered vehicle owner based solely on a photograph of a license plate, any driver could receive a ticket if someone else creates a duplicate of his license plate and drives quickly past a speed camera. The private companies that mail out the tickets often do not bother to verify whether vehicle registration information for the accused vehicle matches the photographed vehicle."
game-theory  government  law  sociology  abuse 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Eligibility criteria contribute to racial disparities in hospice use
""These findings suggest that the hospice eligibility criteria of Medicare and other insurers requiring patients to give up cancer treatment contribute to racial disparities in hospice use," the authors wrote. "Moreover, these criteria do not select those patients with the greatest needs for hospice services," they added.

The basis for these disparities is likely related to both cultural differences and economic characteristics. The results from this study indicate that hospice access could be made fairer by using eligibility criteria that are more directly need-based. For example, the investigators suggested that eligibility might be determined by assessing needs for specific hospice services such as pain or symptom management."
sociology  healthcare  hospice  diversity  Medicare  public-policy 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Homeschooling Research & Scholarship: Home Page
sociology  social-norms  education  academia  demographics  research  homeschooling  teaching  culture-clash 
december 2008 by Vaguery
'The Tyranny of Structurelessness' by Jo Freeman
"The basic problems didn't appear until individual rap groups exhausted the virtues of consciousness-raising and decided they wanted to do some- thing more specific. At this point they usually floundered because most groups were unwilling to change their structure when they changed their task. Women had thoroughly accepted the idea of 'structurelessness' without realising the limitations of its uses. People would try to use the 'structureless' group and the informal conference for purposes for which they were unsuitable out of a blind belief that no other means could possibly be anything but oppressive."
social-dynamics  group-dynamics  organizational-behavior  collaboration  politics  community  sociology  activism  structure  anarchy  leadership 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Jared Diamond on why societies collapse | Video on TED.com
Jared-Diamond  collapse  sociology  history  video  lecture  sustainability  inspiration 
october 2008 by Vaguery
EconoSpeak: The Irrelevance of Workers In Economic Theory
"At the same time as questions of labor were disappearing, economics began to elevate the status of investors' financial claims, insisting that owners of this form of property had rights equal to those of owners of real goods, such as land or factories. Even something as ephemeral as "good will" became recognized as property."
economics  social-norms  social-construction-of-science  academia  politics  sociology  labor  work  worklife  models 
september 2008 by Vaguery
Apomediation: Word of the Day « The Scholarly Kitchen
"Librarians are being moved from intermediaries (mediating between patrons and information), and some say they are being disintermediated. However, I think they are on their way to becoming apomediaries when it comes to information access.

Publishers have traditionally been intermediaries between authors and readers, but some experiments (PLoS One, Wikipedia and the like) seem to indicate that they are moving into the realm of serving as apomediaries. In the realm of blogs, apomediation is the main force affecting much of the talent running blogs. Publisher intermediation is not what it once was.

Google is perhaps the most prominent apomediary, guiding results to the top based on apomediation.

Apomediation feels like the net effect of an information economy that no longer operates on a scarcity model. Now, information is readily available any time. Intermediaries will still be needed, but less often than before, in fewer roles, and for shorter durations."
via:read20-l  disintermediation  sociology  business-culture  business-model  terminology 
august 2008 by Vaguery
Butterflies and Wheels Article
"In any case, there is something deeply inauthentic about the contemporary demand for authenticity."
via:jbdelong  anthropology  cultural-norms  social-norms  prejudice  golden-age  sociology  identity  AUTHENTIC 
july 2008 by Vaguery
Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104: beer, barbeque, urban alienation and intranets
community  collaboration  networking  discovery  social-norms  sociology  social-networks 
june 2008 by Vaguery
/Message: Web Culture And The New Ethos Of Work [From Enterprise 2.0 June 2008]
social-norms  cultural-norms  sociology  economics  future  presentation  collaboration  attention  web2.0 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Labyrinth Books
via:cshalizi  book  philosophy  gadgets  sociology  engineering  cyborgs 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Economist's View: On This Day in 1692
The comments thread is surprisingly vociferous
history  blogging  current-affairs  politics  economics  government  crisis  sociology 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Coding Horror: Strong Opinions, Weakly Held
When it comes to graceful expertise, I am reminded of the intentional stance Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson take in their work.
amateurism  generalism  expertise  personal-brand  self-definition  reputation  sociology  social-norms  learning-by-doing  innovation 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » In My Day…
"Seriously, it would help, if you want to complain about the declining quality of the humanities, to not be a historical dunderhead on a fantastic scale..."
via:tsuomela  academia  history  cultural-norms  myths  golden-age  education  sociology 
june 2008 by Vaguery
right makes might - bookforum.com / in print
politics  sociology  economics  America  cultural-norms  dischotomy  history 
june 2008 by Vaguery
extinctiontimeline.jpg 1500×1061 pixels
via:complexitydaemon  book  design  diagrams  explanation  future  futurism  sociology  visualization 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Alan’s Blogometer
"You’ll learn to get answers by asking other people. You’ll learn to obtain new information by exchanging information with other people. This, of course, puts in active communication with people, instead of being a passive consumer of feeds.

Feeds
advice  RSS  social-norms  sociology  culture  politeness  etiquette  productivity  feeds 
april 2008 by Vaguery
YouTube - Swearengen on Youtube
via: Making Light
Deadwood  blinker-our-judgements-of-motive  language  community  communication  sociology  culture  economics  networks  chaos  keen  observation 
march 2008 by Vaguery
Scholz
"If Web 2.0 is the answer then we are clearly asking the wrong question."
via:vielmetti  analysis  collaboration  economics  community  criticism  crowdsourcing  cultural-norms  commons  myths  web2.0  publishing  corporations  social-engineering  sociology 
march 2008 by Vaguery
Joshua Klein, Mobile, Personal, and Future Technology Specialist
via:cshalizi  ethology  biology  social-norms  sociology  behavior  experiment  art 
march 2008 by Vaguery
License to Sit
via:bkerr  negative-affordances  art  commentary  culture  economics  amusing  politics  satire  sociology  technology 
march 2008 by Vaguery
Community Building isn’t about Features - Bokardo
via:hrheingold  community  social-norms  social-engineering  web-design  sociology  marketing  cultural-norms 
february 2008 by Vaguery
BBC NEWS | Business | EBay to ban negative seller views
End of eBay
stupidity  eBay  social-norms  economics  sociology  business-culture  redisintermediation  business-opportunity 
february 2008 by Vaguery
Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » Competency as a Cultural Value
"A commitment to proceduralism and competency cannot be the end of your political or social appeal if you really aspire to lead or transform America."
politics  sociology  anthropology  psychology  social-norms  cultural-norms  election  subjectivism 
january 2008 by Vaguery
Overcoming Bias: Absolute Authority
"This experience, I fear, maps the domain of belief onto the social domains of authority, of command, of law."
bias  science  pedagogy  fallacy  religion  authority  psychology  sociology  philosophy 
january 2008 by Vaguery
Overcoming Bias: The Two-Party Swindle
"Even dishonesty is not required..."
politics  sociology  social-norms  party  rationality  bias 
january 2008 by Vaguery
Eurozine - France: return to Babel - Marc Hatzfeld
on balance, I find it comforting that I cannot understand myself some days
via:3quarksdaily  language  sociology  cultural-norms  diversity  homogenization  economics  innovation 
january 2008 by Vaguery
naked capitalism: Holiday Special: Something That Changed My Perspective (#4)
consumerism  tv  BBC  documentary  sociology  politics  marketing  corporations  Freudianism 
december 2007 by Vaguery
Trading for their own account
"... rise of new opportunities for specialized information and data mining services that go deeper than what's available in search engines..."
business  economics  Google  trends  web2.0  wikipedia  competitiveness  sociology 
december 2007 by Vaguery
JCMC Vol 13 Issue 1
social-norms  social-networks  sociology  academia  journals  community  scholarship  academic  open-a 
november 2007 by Vaguery
/Message: Another Clue To 'Old Time': Pre-Industrial 'Old Sleep'
I always feel more comfortable and alert when I've had some "insomnia" and a nap the next day. Ironically, "old sleep" may well be what we do as we get older, too.
sleep  against  modernity  health  cultural-norms  physiology  futurism  sociology  physical  anthropology 
november 2007 by Vaguery
[0710.4911] Social Media as Windows on the Social Life of the Mind
Cosma-R-Shalizi  collective  intelligence  social-networks  sociology  social-norms  cultural-norms  culture  simulation  models 
october 2007 by Vaguery
Science Musings by Chet Raymo
"Mine may be the last generation that defines itself by books, rather than digital data."

I don't think it's that simple.
cultural-norms  user-experience  sociology  pedagogy  physicality  books  libraries  interactivity 
october 2007 by Vaguery
Ann Arbor Marketing and Events - Arb Camp - Get Connected to Ann Arbor » Arbcamp is not Barcamp.
Sorry we're not doing it right.
ArbCamp  social-norms  culture-clash  prejudice  mob-action  sociology  bitterness  marketing 
october 2007 by Vaguery
The Lost Art of Reading
I wish Google bothered to punctuate. We're scanning another copy, and will send it through Distributed Proofreaders soon, but in the meantime read the page scans from Google if you like....
Gerald-Stanley-Lee  philosophy  sociology  reading  books  generalism  diversity  lost-classics 
september 2007 by Vaguery
Bowles and Gintis: Is Equality Passé?
via Cosma Shalizi, who for whatever reason fails still to have a del.icio.us account, AFAIK
economics  anthropology  social-norms  cultural-norms  altruism  sociology  philosophy  equality 
september 2007 by Vaguery
The Man in Blue > There are no social networks
via:mitten  social-norms  social-networks  business-model  community  communication  collaboration  user-experience  assumptions  anthropology  sociology  social-engineering 
september 2007 by Vaguery
Meeting needs - why social computing works « Matt’s Musings
social-computing  social-networks  sociology  psychology  collaboration  networking  software 
july 2007 by Vaguery
Leaving the Ivory Tower
This reminds me of Clay Shirky's recent "good entrepreneurs are young", and the common "mathematicians do all their best work before 25" tropes. Life and school are opposites. Age brings life; it kills school. Unless you're faculty already....
academia  attrition  graduate-school  sociology  cultural-norms  books  social-networks  success 
july 2007 by Vaguery
[0705.0599] NodeTrix: Hybrid Representation for Analyzing Social Networks
social-networks  visualization  data-analysis  sociology  algorithms  software  papers  preprint  arXiv  graph-layout  graph-theory 
june 2007 by Vaguery
Robert's Stochastic thoughts
academia  economics  papers  altruism  sociology  cultural-norms  rationality 
june 2007 by Vaguery
Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » “Citation Plagiarism”
"[A] lot of scholarly writing in the humanities and some social sciences uses citation as a marker of institutional sociology, as a performance of intellectual identity, as an affect of authority rather than the substance of it."
academia  scholarship  citation  writing  papers  publishing  social-norms  sociology  semiotics 
june 2007 by Vaguery
The reinvention of scarcity | openDemocracy
"A public realm needs scarcity: without constraint we devolve into the weak forces of diffusion..."
via:tsuomela  community  commons  social-norms  sociology  economics  scarcity  agalmics  open-source  Second-Life  creative-commons 
june 2007 by Vaguery
Linda Stone on Continuous Partial Attention: The War On Flow
via:vielmetti  flow  attention  psychology  pop-psychology  collaboration  social-norms  sociology  cognition  business-culture  advice 
june 2007 by Vaguery
Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Borat get a bibliography
personal-brand  nationalism  anthropology  sociology  cultural-norms  media  meeting  abstract 
may 2007 by Vaguery
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