***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 03:19:55PM -0500, Valdis Krebs wrote: > Been doing that for years, Bill... > > http://www.orgnet.com/booknet.html [1999!] > > > On Dec 31, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Bill.Richards wrote: > >An interesting approach to gathering network data? > > > >http://www.aggregateknowledge.com/index.html While I think Bill was referring to a particular data collection method, for those interested in principles and techniques I'd recommend [sic] to start looking at the vast literature on "recommender systems," or "collaborative filtering" as a variant was called in 1992. An easy starter, cited several hundred times since, is Paul Resnick and Hal R. Varian Recommender systems Communications of the ACM 40(3):56-58, 1997 ACM Press Best regards, B. -- Prof. Dr. Ulrik Brandes Department of Computer & | +49 7531 88 4433 (phone) Information Science, Box D 67 | +49 7531 88 3577 (fax) University of Konstanz | [log in to unmask] 78457 Konstanz, Germany | http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/~brandes/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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.