Social Networks, Black Panthers and Radical Childhoods...
I found two separate things today that were kind of linked.
There's at least one other person on my friend's list who will find the International Network for Social Network Analysis interesting. It has journals, software and other info. If I were to ever become a mathematician this is the sort of thing I would love to work on.
Related is the psycho-conservative David Horowitz's website. Discover The Network. If you click on the visual network it uses the same software that I saw Mario using that showed a visual map of Livejournal connections. It's actually kind of cool unless you know what it's being used for. David Horowitz basically thinks that there is no real difference between liberals, leftists and terrorists. This map purports to show how it is all linked together. You can read all about it at Salon.
David Horowitz is one of those sad stranger-than-fiction people. He wrote a controversial memoir a couple years ago about his childhood in an ultra-Marxist-Stalinist family and his disenchantment with the left during the sixties which included the rape and murder of one of his friends, possibly by Black Panthers. It sounds like he has completely become unhinged. What's funny is that in some ways he's more useful to the left as an object of ridicule than he ever was as an activist.
There's at least one other person on my friend's list who will find the International Network for Social Network Analysis interesting. It has journals, software and other info. If I were to ever become a mathematician this is the sort of thing I would love to work on.
Related is the psycho-conservative David Horowitz's website. Discover The Network. If you click on the visual network it uses the same software that I saw Mario using that showed a visual map of Livejournal connections. It's actually kind of cool unless you know what it's being used for. David Horowitz basically thinks that there is no real difference between liberals, leftists and terrorists. This map purports to show how it is all linked together. You can read all about it at Salon.
David Horowitz is one of those sad stranger-than-fiction people. He wrote a controversial memoir a couple years ago about his childhood in an ultra-Marxist-Stalinist family and his disenchantment with the left during the sixties which included the rape and murder of one of his friends, possibly by Black Panthers. It sounds like he has completely become unhinged. What's funny is that in some ways he's more useful to the left as an object of ridicule than he ever was as an activist.