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Nick Thompson

If you build one they will come!

Mike

YOU WROTE:

In fact, this FRIAM group should be operating in
a social network and these threads would be preserved for future readers.
If this is interest in this, I'll build one.

I have to say this interests me. Much as I hated its "ontology",
BLACKBOARD had something that nothing else I have encountered has. Public
or Private access, document posting, threaded discussion lists, and email
lists useable and manageable by all members of the list. PB Wiki has a
lot of this stuff but none of the email facilities, yet.

What are you using facebook FOR?

Nick

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> Date: 8/19/2007 10:02:31 AM
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> 1. NPR : Size Matters: The Hidden Mathematics of Life (Owen Densmore)
> 2. whether successfully averted for the moment or not, ...
> (Phil Henshaw)
> 3. Re: Facebook? iPhone? (Michael Orshan)
> 4. tom at jtjohnson.com sent you a link to content of interest
> (tom at jtjohnson.com)
> 5. Netlogo 4.0Beta5 (Stephen Guerin)
> 6. Reed's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Owen Densmore)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:57:59 -0600
> From: Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net>
> Subject: [FRIAM] NPR : Size Matters: The Hidden Mathematics of Life
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> <friam at redfish.com>
> Message-ID: <E81A3B87-060A-4182-9AF5-C8087D93B435 at backspaces.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
> Geoff is getting a lot of press lately, nice to see:
> <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12877984>
>
>
> -- Owen
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:24:05 -0400
> From: "Phil Henshaw" <otwo at synapse9.com>
> Subject: [FRIAM] whether successfully averted for the moment or not,
> ...
> To: "FRIAM" <Friam at redfish.com>
> Message-ID: <006a01c7e1bc$947ade50$6402a8c0 at SavyII>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
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>
> Hi folks,
>
> ...this week's global run on credit seems like a casebook example of how
> a natural system failure to provide growing physical returns on
> investment would effect financial commitments for endlessly growing
> financial returns. The naturally conflict.
>
> One thing we can do is watch it closely, so others may learn from our
> experience. Because systemic collapse is a big physical process in a
> big physical system, displaying all-together new kinds of rapidly
> spreading behaviors, watch for that. If you see that sort of thing
> perhaps you'll 'believe your eyes and ears' and not feel the
> observations were 'planted' in your imagination somehow. Remember what
> things seemed to mean before and after and make note of it.
>
> ---
> I've been using the mismatch between our unlimited economic expectations
> and their certain disappointment as a way to learn about natural systems
> and how they fool us for about 30 years. It's remains a rich and
> engaging subject. In June I sent out my first 'system collision
> warning' ever, initially in a post to the AIA environment forum. I
> said I thought the surprise discovery by the ethanol investors in May,
> that ethanol couldn't have the land they wanted (to begin the shift of
> the world economy to a carbon neutral energy source) because milk
> producers raised the price, signaled the tip of the growth system's
> physical collision with the earth we've all been waiting for, 'the big
> crunch'. The same kind of 'fish-tailing' in the steering mechanisms
> of the world economic system I observed then in the energy markets also
> seems clear in the rapid, large scale, and indecisive maneuvering this
> week by financial institutions.
>
> Just because growth expectations are fulfilled, even for hundreds of
> years, doesn't mean it's not certain that natural systems will fail
> them, and so our financial design that requires growth for it's own
> stability is a mistake. If this week's threatened global financial
> collapse is just a warning, well, then do take it as a warning.
>
>
>
> Phil Henshaw ????.?? ? `?.????
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 680 Ft. Washington Ave
> NY NY 10040
> tel: 212-795-4844
> e-mail: otwo at synapse9.com
> explorations: www.synapse9.com
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:09:26 -0600
> From: "Michael Orshan" <morshan at marsound.com>
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Facebook? iPhone?
> To: "'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'"
> <friam at redfish.com>
> Message-ID: <006e01c7e1c2$ea5e6bb0$6401a8c0 at acer0aab77603b>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Owen:
>
> I'm using Facebook and Linkedin for many purposes. Cleary, social

networks
> are the future for many reasons. Trade, relationships, causes, etc.
> Facebook is currently the fastest growing public social network, and
Myspace
> is the largest by far. Linkedin is mostly for business and is trying to
> compete with the others. Social networking is becoming the key for
Internet
> traffic growth in advertising, your causes or to create your social site.

>
> They all allow 3rd party widgets, but you need to stay on the site. This
> creates a specialized third party application. Maybe with a little
> database.
>
> They are wonderful because they bring people with "like" minds together.
If
> you think of eBay, people trade without knowing each other and their biz
> model is beginning to show rust. It is slowing down. Social network
trade
> will probably take over. In fact, this FRIAM group should be operating
in
> a social network and these threads would be preserved for future readers.
> If this is interest in this, I'll build one.
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On
Behalf

> Of Owen Densmore
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:02 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: [FRIAM] Facebook? iPhone?
>
> OK, I've been bumping into facebook a bunch lately .. can anyone tell
> me why its wonderful?
>
> Anyone using it? My interest is that the iPhone world is happy with
> it's new iPhone version. Apparently lots of web 2.0 sites are
> rushing to provide an iPhone version. Makes sense 'cause the iPhone
> does not support 3rd party apps, and encourages developers to create
> web-centric applications instead:
> http://developer.apple.com/iphone/
>
> -- Owen
>
>
>
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>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:56:41 -0500 (CDT)
> From: tom at jtjohnson.com
> Subject: [FRIAM] tom at jtjohnson.com sent you a link to content of
> interest
> To: friam at redfish.com
> Message-ID:
> <10603991.157451187463401683.JavaMail.rsspp at fb1.feedburner.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> tom at jtjohnson.com sent you a link to the following content:
>
> Opening up the Social Network Graph
> http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/opening_up_the.html
>
> The sender also included this note:
>
> Interesting stuff here on Social Network Analysis and Display (SNAD?)
>
> --
> Sent via a FeedFlare link from a FeedBurner feed.
> http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/publishers/feedflare
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 05:21:15 -0600
> From: "Stephen Guerin" <stephen.guerin at redfish.com>
> Subject: [FRIAM] Netlogo 4.0Beta5
> To: <friam at redfish.com>
> Message-ID: <018901c7e253$0ffed3b0$6901a8c0 at hongyu>
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>
> Two interesting new features in Netlogo's announcement yesterday.
>
> - new experimental __includes keyword allows splitting model code into

multiple
> files
>
> - Mathematica-NetLogo link provides a real-time link between Mathematica
and
> NetLogo, for controlling model runs and visualizing and analyzing results
after

> the fact or in real time
>
> Full announcement below.
>
> -Steve
>
>
>
>
> The Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling at

Northwestern
> University is pleased to announce the release of NetLogo 4.0beta5. NetLogo
> 4.0beta5 is available for free download from
> http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/.
<http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/.>
>
> This is a BETA release of NetLogo. As such, there may be a few bugs.
> As far as we know, this release is reliable. Nonetheless, if you want to
use a
> NetLogo which has proved stable, please stick with NetLogo
> 3.1.4 for now.
>
> Please try 4.0beta5 out and send us bug reports at
bugs at ccl.northwestern.edu
> <mailto:bugs%40ccl.northwestern.edu> and other suggestions and comments
at
> feedback at ccl.northwestern.edu <mailto:feedback%40ccl.northwestern.edu> .
>
> If you are a Mathematica user, you might want to try out the
NetLogo-Mathematica
> link, new in this release. We have found combining the power of ABM and
symbolic
> scientific computing to be quite powerful.
>
> For those of you who have been inquiring about colors: In case you missed
it, in
> beta3, NetLogo color variables can now take values from the full RGB color
> space.
>
> The following is a (partial) list of changes made and new features added
since
> the previous beta, NetLogo 4.0beta3. (For a complete list of changes
since 3.1.4

> see http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/whatsnew4_0.html
> <http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/whatsnew4_0.html> .)
>
> * models:
> + new earth science model: Climate Change new chemistry model: Diprotic
> + Acid new materials science model: Solid Diffusion new mathematics
> + model: Surface Walking 2D new network model: Team Assembly new
> + unverified El Farol model replaces old El Farol which is
> now named El Farol Network Congestion
> + improved models: Conic Sections 2 (now verified), Echo (now
> verified), Rebellion (bugfixes; now verified), Heatbugs (improved

visuals),
> Small Worlds (bugfix), Planarity (simpler code), Daisyworld (now verified)
> + new Code Examples: Ask-Concurrent Example, Ask Ordering Example,
> Random Network Example, Fully Connected Network Example, Mobile
Aggregation

> Example, Wall Following Example, Circular Path Example
> + new HubNet activities: PANDA BEAR
> + new HubNet code example: Template
> + improved models: Planarity (simpler code), Autumn
> (now verified), Plant Hybridization
> + improved HubNet activities: Dice Stalagmite HubNet (now
> verified), Bug Hunters Camouflage (now verified), Root Beer Game, Disease
> Doctors, Minority Game
> * features:
> + new experimental __includes keyword allows splitting model
> code into multiple files
> + Mathematica-NetLogo link provides a real-time link
> between Mathematica and NetLogo, for controlling model runs and

visualizing and

> analyzing results after the fact or in real time
> + output areas now have editable font size the tie command is no longer
> + experimental; new link variable
> tie-mode can be set to "fixed", "free", or "none"
> * language changes:
> + old rgb and hsb primitives renamed to approximate-rgb and
> approximate-hsb; they now expect inputs in 0-255 range instead of 0-1.0
> + new primitive import-pcolors-rgb imports images into the
> patches as RGB colors
> + the file-read primitive now skips over comments code may now set a
> + slider to values which violate the
> slider's min, max, and increment
> + new reporter all? tests whether all agents in an agentset
> satisfy a condition
> + the hsb and rgb reporters now report RGB lists instead of
> NetLogo colors
> + added is-<link-breed>? primitive
> + added is-directed-link and is-undirected-link? primitives the table
> + extension now restricts table keys to be numbers,
> strings, booleans, or nested lists of same
> * fixes:
> + new monitors now default to full precision, not 3 decimal places the
> + file-read reporter now reads very long lists drastically
> faster
> + fixed 4.0-only bug where some list primitives such as sum and
> mean didn't work properly with the new of primitive in some cases
> + fixed 4.0-only bug where import-world didn't work with arrays
> and tables
> + fixed 4.0-only bug where importing shapes caused a Java
> exception
> + fixed 4.0-only bug where the speed slider didn't function
> well with continuous updates (there was a sharp discontinuity in speed on

the
> left)
> + fixed 4.0-only bug where using the speed slider to fast-forward
> a model with tick-based updates and fractional updates could cause view
updates
> at incorrect times
> + fixed 4.0-only bug where applets required additional jars
> besides just NetLogoLite.jar
> + fixed some 4.0-only bugs in plotting
>
> Please send bug reports to bugs at ccl.northwestern.edu
> <mailto:bugs%40ccl.northwestern.edu> and other suggestions and comments
to
> feedback at ccl.northwestern.edu <mailto:feedback%40ccl.northwestern.edu> .
>
> We also have three mailing lists for NetLogo:
> - netlogo-announce: occasional release announcements only
> - netlogo-users: discussions about NetLogo
> - netlogo-educators: discussions about teaching with NetLogo
> http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
<http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/> has
> info on all three.
>
> Credits:
>
> NetLogo was designed and authored by Uri Wilensky, project leader and
director
> of the CCL. The lead developer is Seth Tisue. Many others have contributed
> greatly. HubNet was jointly designed by Uri Wilensky and Walter Stroup.
>
> The design of NetLogo was supported through funding from the National
Science

> Foundation (grants REC 9632612, REC 9814682, REC 0126227, CCR 0326542).
> Additional support for the design of HubNet (calculator
> version) was provided by Texas Instruments.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> --
> Uri Wilensky
> Director, Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling
> http://ccl.northwestern.edu <http://ccl.northwestern.edu>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:00:12 -0600
> From: Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net>
> Subject: [FRIAM] Reed's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> <friam at redfish.com>
> Message-ID: <4D7406E3-C977-4269-9D49-924C3C9A6FC7 at backspaces.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
> Interesting to see that David Reed's Law is now in Wikipedia:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed's_law>
> Its all about beyond Metcalf's value of the network being n^2,
> bringing in the power set of subgroups networks can form, thus
> valuing the network as 2^n.
>
> Stephen has the insight that Reed's Law is quite important and
> explains the web 2.0 explosion and a will be a/the major component of
> a web 3.0 future.
>
> Nice to see its now pretty fully on the radar.
>
> -- Owen
>
>
>
>
>
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Michael Orshan

If you build one they will come!

Nick:

I have been in the process of creating traffic for a number of reasons. In
order to do this you need to create a presence in social networks.
Honestly, I have just started with Facebook. My first task was within
Linkedin, which has a much more business oriented crowd. I built up "my
community" within linkedin and now can move this audience. I'll be doing
the same with Facebook. Of course there are many other social networks, but
if you do these two you have covered a lot of ground.

It turns out that people are monetizing their networking experiences in
these networks. It is these people you want to join your network and watch
them become your network brokers. If the reason your network exists and
your audience work together you can have a popular social network.

I believe you need to be more than a billboard along the Internet hi-way and
built www.marsound.com before moving people to
http://buildbridgesnotwall.ning.com which is just starting. You and all can
join; this will probably be a pay site in a few months.

Mike
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-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf
Of Nicholas Thompson
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 10:24 AM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: [FRIAM] If you build one they will come!

Mike

YOU WROTE:

In fact, this FRIAM group should be operating in
a social network and these threads would be preserved for future readers.
If this is interest in this, I'll build one.

I have to say this interests me. Much as I hated its "ontology",
BLACKBOARD had something that nothing else I have encountered has. Public
or Private access, document posting, threaded discussion lists, and email
lists useable and manageable by all members of the list. PB Wiki has a
lot of this stuff but none of the email facilities, yet.

What are you using facebook FOR?

Nick

multiple
> files
>
> - Mathematica-NetLogo link provides a real-time link between Mathematica
and
> NetLogo, for controlling model runs and visualizing and analyzing results
after

> the fact or in real time
>
> Full announcement below.
>
> -Steve
>
>
>
>
> The Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling at

visualizing and

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