Comments on: Around the Web http://savageminds.org/2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Fri, 25 May 2012 11:29:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John McCreery http://savageminds.org/2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/comment-page-1/#comment-251757 John McCreery Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:06:39 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/#comment-251757 LOL ;-()!! LOL ;-()!!

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]]> By: Rex http://savageminds.org/2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/comment-page-1/#comment-251219 Rex Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:54:08 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/#comment-251219 TOP HEADLINE: JOHN MCCREARY POSTS REACTIONARY OLDSTER COMMENT ABOUT HOW VICTOR TURNER DID IT BETTER FIFTY YEARS AGO BACK WHEN ANTHROPOLOGY WAS 'MAKING PROGRESS' -- YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST! Seriously, though, iirc 6 degrees of separation is about double the number of nodes that separate most Americans. So maybe the breaking news is MSN sucks? Oh wait.... we've known that for years... TOP HEADLINE: JOHN MCCREARY POSTS REACTIONARY OLDSTER COMMENT ABOUT HOW VICTOR TURNER DID IT BETTER FIFTY YEARS AGO BACK WHEN ANTHROPOLOGY WAS ‘MAKING PROGRESS’ — YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!

Seriously, though, iirc 6 degrees of separation is about double the number of nodes that separate most Americans. So maybe the breaking news is MSN sucks? Oh wait…. we’ve known that for years…

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]]> By: ckelty http://savageminds.org/2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/comment-page-1/#comment-250988 ckelty Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:41:31 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/#comment-250988 John McCreery is OLD NEWS! Wait, that's not what I meant to say. What's new about Horvitz is that he, along with like 10 other people have managed to make their careers by resurrecting a field of study that Milgram and Kochen initiated 40 years ago, and which anthropologists and sociologists have been constantly contributing to in incredibly boring ways. The more interesting questions is: why AREN't the people who have been working on networks in social science for 40 years the one's getting the attention? INJUSTICE, I SAY! Or something like that. John McCreery is OLD NEWS! Wait, that’s not what I meant to say. What’s new about Horvitz is that he, along with like 10 other people have managed to make their careers by resurrecting a field of study that Milgram and Kochen initiated 40 years ago, and which anthropologists and sociologists have been constantly contributing to in incredibly boring ways.

The more interesting questions is: why AREN’t the people who have been working on networks in social science for 40 years the one’s getting the attention? INJUSTICE, I SAY! Or something like that.

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]]> By: Strong http://savageminds.org/2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/comment-page-1/#comment-250837 Strong Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:46:14 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/#comment-250837 John: Is there some rule that says that everything discussed here at SM must be *hot off the presses*? John: Is there some rule that says that everything discussed here at SM must be *hot off the presses*?

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]]> By: Jay http://savageminds.org/2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/comment-page-1/#comment-250772 Jay Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:46:32 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/#comment-250772 Right, as the article itself mentions. I think what struck me was the apparent unconcern with Microsoft tracing usage patterns. But again, nothing new there either. Right, as the article itself mentions. I think what struck me was the apparent unconcern with Microsoft tracing usage patterns. But again, nothing new there either.

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]]> By: John McCreery http://savageminds.org/2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/comment-page-1/#comment-250662 John McCreery Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:58:30 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/#comment-250662 TOP STORY IS OLD NEWS!!! Six degrees of separation goes back to Stanley Milgram and has been a stock item in books on networks for going on half a century. TOP STORY IS OLD NEWS!!! Six degrees of separation goes back to Stanley Milgram and has been a stock item in books on networks for going on half a century.

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