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Woah – this is nifty! Enter a site and it will graph the connections leading to/from it: TouchGraph | Products: Google Browser Technorati Tags: internet

Janet has a wonderful entry on self-reinforcing hierarchies both in the blogosphere and in the world of science. The gist of the post is that success is not necessarily a function of excellence, but involves other factors such as luck and having the right support at the right time – once structures are entrenched, they [...]

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Thank you Cathy for this super article, expanding on the idea of what wikipedia is actually about. “We Can’t Ignore the Influence of Digital Technologies” Op Ed from Chronicle of Higher Education | HASTAC Technorati Tags: internet

Here’s to the Internet: Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: Productivity at elite universities We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with [...]