Why superheroes always win - being-human - 01 September 2007 - New Scientist Annotated
Pablo Gleiser studied the social web within the fictional universe of Marvel comics, comprising 6486 characters in 12,942 issues. Taking two characters to be linked if they appeared in the same issue, he found a superficially realistic social network. A small fraction of characters - notably the superheroes themselves - had far more links than most others, acting as key social hubs. "The Marvel universe looks almost like a real social network," says Gleiser
Some people really do have too much time on their hands. That is a lot of issues to go through. It is funny though how comic book writers do make the comics mimic society. At least in the social networking aspects...
A second reason for this post is to try out a new feature I downloaded into Firefox. I recently downloaded diigo and have to say I do like it. I have been using del.icio.us for my bookmarking, but since trying diigo I may not go back. Not only can I bookmark pages I can also highlight sections and add notes. I can then email these annotated pages to others or save them for myself. Very cool...
Some people really do have too much time on their hands. That is a lot of issues to go through. It is funny though how comic book writers do make the comics mimic society. At least in the social networking aspects...
A second reason for this post is to try out a new feature I downloaded into Firefox. I recently downloaded diigo and have to say I do like it. I have been using del.icio.us for my bookmarking, but since trying diigo I may not go back. Not only can I bookmark pages I can also highlight sections and add notes. I can then email these annotated pages to others or save them for myself. Very cool...
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