el trabajo dignifica al hombre

[rone]

I have a job again.  I am immensely relieved.  I am also very eager to start, not merely because it's a salary, but because i'm genuinely impressed by the people i will be working with and for.

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[thedarkages]

Congratulations, Rone. I hope that this one will work out over the long haul.

I attended a conference on social mapping of organizations, and one of the presenters played the oldest trick in the book on me. (I, stupidly, volunteered). They showed me a company's social network, and I had to pick who the president was. I chose the one with the greatest number of relationships. That turned out to be the guy in the mailroom. The president had everything filtered to him by three V.P.'s; he had one of the lowest numbers of connections on the entire graph. Hopefully those whizzy equations flying around in the Flash demo mean that the company has experts on board.

[internebbish.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's a great story. What was the name of the conference?

[thedarkages]

I honestly don't remember. It was held by one of the UCs circa 1995.

[thedarkages]

I have a mug someplace. My wife probably "reorganized" it ten years ago, but I'll post to this thread if I can dig it up.

[thedarkages]

Son of a gun! My wife found the mug. The University of California Electronic Commerce Workshop, held at UCLA on April 3-4, 1997; there was a track on "social networks," and that's what I attended.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Freakishly prescient.

[thedarkages]

Well, back then, the term was a lot broader than it is today. Firefly was doing some very interesting things in 1996, which basically became Amazon "recommendation" technology; the conference had a session on that under the same rubric. The keynote session, where I made the mistake with the network diagram, was, indeed, spookily prescient; oddly enough, the graphs were on transparencies.