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Home Archives Archives before June 13, 2001 RSS Feed Adaptive Path (my company!) About peterme Coordinates Most of the Time Oakland, CA Interests Current American history around the time of the Revolution, figuring out how to marry top-down task-based information architecture processes with bottom-up document-based ones, finding a good dentist in San Francisco Oakland Perennial Designing the user experience (interaction design, information architecture, user research, etc.), cognitive science, ice cream, films and film theory, girls, commuter bicycling, coffee, travel, theoretical physics for laypeople, single malt scotch, fresh salmon nigiri, hanging out, comics formalism, applied complexity theory, Krispy Kreme donuts. surf Click to see where I wander. Wish list Show me you love me by buying me things. Spyonme Track updates of this page with Spyonit. Clickee here. Essays [Editor's note: peterme.com began as a site of self-published essays, a la Stating The Obvious. This evolved (or devolved) towards link lists and shorter thoughtpieces. These essays are getting a tad old, but have some good ideas.] Reader Favorites Interface Design Recommended Reading List Whose "My" Is It Anyway? Frames: Information Vs. Application Subjects Interface Design Web Development Movie Reviews Travel		Damn that boy is smart. Posted on 02/26/2002. It's been linked elsewhere, but I just had to point to Peter Morville's latest on social networks. Very smart stuff, with nifty design, too! To which I'd add a pointer to the work of Christopher Lueg, who also has been doing some interesting deep research in this area. 1 comment so far. Add a comment. Previous entry: "Designing Like It's 1999." Next entry: "A second chance at getting the word out." Comments: COMMENT #1 Another interesting analysis of social networks is this one where the researchers analyzed how often every Marvel Comics character appeared with every other one. The result: Captain America is the best connected hero of them all. http://www.arxiv.org/PS_cache/cond-mat/pdf/0202/0202174.pdf -Cf [christopher eli fahey] art: http://www.graphpaper.com sci: http://www.askrom.com biz: http://www.behaviordesign.com . Posted by Christopher Fahey @ 03/10/2002 10:39 PM PST [link to this comment] Add A New Comment: Name E-Mail (optional) Homepage (optional) Comments Now with a bigger box for text entry! Whee! All contents of peterme.com are © 1998 - 2002 Peter Merholz.