Made out of people

Networks Everywhere!

Interesting to see lots of pictures of networks in lots of contexts coming out and around.

via many-2-many Rob Cross explains social network analysis for business in a brief, but nicely illustrated manner.

via danah this cool site on tangible social networks connecting people to each other with balloons and ribbons. It's an interesting tangible network, although the images make it pretty clear that it's not really possible to actually figure out things like, "who is connected to whom."

Among other things, this being an art gallery, you probably can't touch the art. Which is too bad, because it turns out that with ribbons, it's very easy to figure out shortest-distance algorithms. To get the shortest distance from person A to person B, just grab the balloons representing A and B, and pull them apart. Then locate the really tight strings. That's the shortest path between A and B.