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 New Articles from Complexity Digest

Compiled by Barry Wellman: When wise words are not enough, Nature Excerpt: In a world reeling from surprise, where once-in-a-lifetime events seem to happen every month, two things seem to be constant. The first is the inadequacy of expertis...
 



 INSNA Sunbelt Conference Presentations

  The Annenberg Networks Network Research Team recognizes presentations by USC Annenberg School for Communication students and faculty at the XXIX INSNA Sunbelt Social Networks Conference (March 10-15 2009, San Diego California). Abstracts of presen...
 
Networks in the News


 Putting a Price on Social Connections

 Researchers at IBM and MIT have found that certain e-mail connections and patterns at work correlate with higher revenue production ...
 http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2009/tc2009047_031301.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily



 Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionag

 Researchers at the Information Warfare Monitor uncovered a suspected cyber-espionage network of over 1,295 infected hosts in 103 countries. This finding comes at the close of a 10-month investigation of alleged Chinese cyber-spying against Tibet...
 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/technology/29spy.html?_r=1



 Primates on Facebook

THAT Facebook, Twitter and other online social networks will increase the size of human social groups is an obvious hypothesis, given that they reduce a lot of the friction and cost involved in keeping in touch with other people. Once you join and ga...
 http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13176775