brynnafred musings and other goodies

Rapleaf data on social network size

How very timely that I discovered this article today about a group called Rapleaf, who purport to understand how people use the social web by following their “internet footprint.” As a quick aside: I was pretty disappointed after signing up for an account to see what info they had on me—it was hardly complete. A [...]

Top “social network” sites according to my “friends”

As part of a larger study I’m working on, I need a way to validate social network measures like size and diversity. For example, if Johnny has 1000 friends on Facebook, you would say that his online social network is much larger than Suzy’s of 100 friends. But “in real life,” does Johnny really have [...]

links on ma.gnolia

In case you’re curious what I’ve been reading…
The oil mirage

Good case for NOT drilling for oil off the US coast.
Mechanical Turk: The Demographics

“One of the common misbeliefs about Mechanical Turk is that it is a virtual sweatshop”…Panos says not so. This post provides some demographics (age, gender, and location) for 300 turkers, collected over the [...]