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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** I just want to add that even though yes, Google does help in doing research and finding papers, you have to read those papers and access them to see if they're relevant or not. It takes people to determine that, because there is that cognitive element that search engines don't have. Another suggestion is to go to http://citeulike.org which basically is a del.icio.us site for papers and references. People tag references and make comments and then you can see if others also cite the same paper. You can do a search on a particular tag let's same community, and see what other papers people have read on community. We need to have some sort of social search capability, Eurekster kind of started that, where you use other people's search to feed your own search. Google doesn't have that, and I one time mentioned this to one of Google's managers when he came to U of T for a talk. He kind of shrugged it off. Human beings are social beings, we like to engage and talk with other people. People will give their suggestions and their input from their own experience. Can Google do that? OK, end of rant. Alvin On 9/19/06, Paul B. Hartzog <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** > > On 9/19/06, Bill.Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** > > > > Rather than asking other people to do your research, do it yourself. > > "I don't read anymore; I just talk to people who have." — Dr. Tom > Malloy, University of Utah > > Dr. Malloy's tongue-in-cheek comment sparked an interesting > conversation about… well… conversation. When two people have a > conversation, they act as proxies for the many ideas in their heads > which are drawn from the many things they have read. In effect, a > conversation is a many-to-many interaction that is both mediated and > moderated by the participants. The individuals catalog, sort, tag, and > filter ideas as they are drawn into the shared space of the > conversation. > > http://many.corante.com/archives/2005/09/11/the_power_of_conversation.php > > > Email lists are for conversation; conversation IS research. I see > nothing untoward with asking here on the list. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.paulbhartzog.org > http://www.panarchy.com > [log in to unmask] > [log in to unmask] > -------------------------------------------------------- > The Universe is made up of stories, not atoms. > --Muriel Rukeyser > -------------------------------------------------------- > > _____________________________________________________________________ > SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social > network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send > an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line > UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. > _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.