On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, danah boyd wrote: > If there are any comic book fans out here, this is just adorable: > > http://www.nature.com/nsu/020218/020218-17.html See also Slashdot Marvel Universe Is Almost Like *Real Life* Society from the scary-as-heck dept. posted by Hemos on Friday February 22, @14:05 (science) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/22/185249 where a cluster of geeks proves that they don't understand very much about social network analysis, (or) that the reporting that went into this missed a thing or two about lead up to the story for the uninitiated. (Somewhere in there the fact that the research was based on an existing compendium of Marvel lore and not done from scratch was missed.) Slashdot itself would be an interesting social network to study; there's a peer ranking system where people hand out points to posters depending on how highly they rank their comments, and only the high ranking comments get shown to readers who configure their accounts accordingly. thanks Ed Edward Vielmetti The Vacuum Group LLC Ann Arbor, MI [log in to unmask]