Actors Types For Conflict and Global Relations

Note: This is a revamps of an earlier post and is in preparation for a new post
All Global Actors are Networks (aka relationships sets) of humans:
SBN state-based network – states or super-state organizations
KBN Kin-based network – people driven by familiar or tribal ties
SEI super empowered individuals or networks of super empowered individuals
MBN meme-based network – [...]

Gene-Based Networks?

Curtis of PhaticCommunion and Dreaming 5GW, teased out a term in post that was on human networks – gene-based networks and meme-gene-based network.
I don’t know what to make of it but it sound cool!
Here is what I thought:
Wow. Is this taking the Selfish Gene concept and crossing it with Network Science? Is a Gene-Based [...]

Network Diagram of Purpleslog Blog

Here is the tool: www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/
What do the colors mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: [...]

Spire’s Fundamental Law of Internet Dynamics

“Badness scales better than goodness”.
Hmm.
Ramification for Globalization/Connectivity Corollary? Discuss.

Lessons from Organizational Studies

The Organizations And Markets Blog has an interesting post on “What Do We Really Know About Organizations?
It seems like our understanding of the nature of organizations is very immature and ripe for interdisciplinary study aka horizontal thinking (e.g combined study of leadership, evolutionary psychology, sociology, anthropology network science, economics). More then half of the organization [...]

My Conceptual Problems with Network Science

I am a computer guy..I come to computer networking from hands -on experimentation (no formal classes) and I seem to have problems generalizing to a network science. The specific instance of computer networks has warped my thinking to some extent.
I have tabled several network science related posts (especially meme-based networks) because just wasn’t sure they [...]

Required Reading: Phatic Communion’s Revised OODA Series

Phatic Communion’s series on the Revised OODA is required reading.
It extends and improves upon the OODA concept, has first coverage of EBO that makes sense, and ties it all nicely into the Generations of Modern Warfare framework.
I am still digesting the first three parts before going onto the rest.

Part 1 – Rethinking the OODA
Part 2 [...]

What is the Value of a Network?

IEEE Spectrum has a new article suggesting that Metcalfe’s Law (network value is approx a square of the number of nodes) is incorrect.
The article says:
We propose, instead, that the value of a network of size n grows in proportion to n log(n). Note that these laws are growth laws, which means they cannot predict the [...]

Coming Anarcy’s Neo-Medievalism, Ungoverned Spaces, PNM Theory, and Network Science

Coming Anarchy has an interesting PNM Theory related post entitled Neo-Medievalism II that used historical examples and the idea of ungoverned spaces:
The nexus thereof, ungoverned space, creates a network of internationally connected fiefdoms which engage in smuggling, trafficking, terrorism and other forms of organized crime. The Coming Anarchy meets Global Guerillas.
I think the idea of [...]