] A link to a site you read isnt the same as a link to ] someone you know through their blog or someone you ] actively collaborate with. ] ] After reviewing data of work relationships, information ] flows and knowledge exchanges from hundreds of consulting ] assignments inside Fortune 2000 organizations Valdis ] Krebs did not see much evidence of power laws in this ] data. His data is of confirmed ties [both persons ] agreed/recognized their mutual ] interactions/flows/relationships] from a worldwide pool ] of clients dating back to 1988. Of course he found some ] people were better connected than others, but the extreme ] hubs found in power law networks just were not evident. |