Is the graph search limited to facebook data? Or does it include the rest of other search engine data? If just FB then it may have the problem the author discusses .. needing a constant stream of new activity from which to infer the graph.
At a guess, I'd say twitter is a better source and much more graph-able .. almost a tripple-store with hashtags and @ identifiers. I've noticed that people tend to migrate toward/between one of G+, Facebook, and Twitter rather than use all of them so FB may be right to try to get folks back into the herd. -- Owen On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Per Nick's fine invitation, see: > > http://battellemedia.com/archives/2013/01/facebook-is-no-longer-flat.php > > -tom johnson > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Nicholas Thompson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear all, **** >> >> ** ** >> >> We had a discussion last Friday at Friam that I would like to see >> continued here. Many of us had seen a recent talk in which somebody was >> using satellite imagery to track an individual through his day. The >> resolution of such imagery is now down to 20 cm, and that is before >> processing. We stipulated (not sure it's true in NM) that if I were to >> follow one of you around for week, never intruding into your private space, >> but tagging along after you everywhere you went and patiently recording >> your every public act, that I could eventually be thrown in jail for >> stalking. We tried to decide what the law should say about assembling >> public data to create a record of the moment by moment activities of an >> individual. We suspected that nothing in law would forbid that kind of >> surveillance, but it made some of us uneasy. So much of what we take to be >> our private lives, is, after all, just a way of organizing public data. * >> *** >> >> ** ** >> >> We then wondered what justified any kind of privacy law. If everybody >> were honest, the cameras would reveal nothing that everybody would not be >> happy to have known? Were not privacy concerns proof of guilt? No, we >> concluded: they might be proof of SHAME, but shame and guilt are not the >> same, and the law, *per se*, is not in the business of punishing SHAME.** >> ** >> >> ** ** >> >> I thought our discussion was interesting for its combination of >> technological sophistication and legal naiveté. (In short, we needed a >> lawyer) In the end I concluded that, as more and more public data is put >> on line and more and more sophisticated data mining techniques are >> deployed, there will come a time when a category of cyber-stalking might >> have to be identified which involves using *public* data to track and >> aggregate in detail the movements of a particular individual. Do we have >> an opinion on this?**** >> >> ** ** >> >> We will now be at St. Johns for the foreseeable future. **** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> Nick **** >> >> ** ** >> >> Nicholas S. Thompson**** >> >> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology**** >> >> Clark University**** >> >> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/**** >> >> http://www.cusf.org**** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > > > > -- > ========================================== > J. T. Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM > USA<http://www.analyticjournalism.com/> > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > Twitter: jtjohnson > http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] > ========================================== > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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