OK, I have to post about a growing pet peeve.  I’m a very, very small lone voice against the vast and growing trend of referring to online social networking applications / platforms (MySpace, FaceBook, white label platforms, etc.) as “social networks”.  While social networking applications contain, and are a type of human social network, “social [...]

Recently, I was called to document quality control / quality assurance steps for a public relations / communications research proposal. I thought it was a useful topic, and worth summarizing some of what I’ve learned over 15 years of scientific research administration and working as a PR / marketing research consultant. In no [...]

Last February, I posted about an automated sensor/logger device by researchers at MIT for the purpose of automated real-time discovery of human social networks. As interesting as that device is - and the implications for smaller, cheaper successor devices - I believe that the trend toward increasing computing power, location sensitivity, and “friend discovery” [...]