Comments on: Around the Web /2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: John McCreery /2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/comment-page-1/#comment-251757 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:06:39 +0000 /2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/#comment-251757 LOL ;-()!!

]]> By: Rex /2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/comment-page-1/#comment-251219 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:54:08 +0000 /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…

]]> By: ckelty /2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/comment-page-1/#comment-250988 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:41:31 +0000 /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.

]]> By: Strong /2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/comment-page-1/#comment-250837 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:46:14 +0000 /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*?

]]> By: Jay /2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/comment-page-1/#comment-250772 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:46:32 +0000 /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.

]]> By: John McCreery /2008/03/16/around-the-web-5/comment-page-1/#comment-250662 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:58:30 +0000 /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.

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