In Comey Firing Trump Gets Notification Wrong Again

Any number of news outlets communicated a sense of outrage over the fact that James Comey apparently learned he’d been fired by looking up at

The Socially Competent Node

Consider the following deviant characters: loose cannons, blabbermouths, gossipers, and yentas, stool pigeons and canaries, tattlers and squealers, garblers, the nosy, the deaf to hints,

Religion and Learning to be a Node

A short excerpt from zeroth draft of chapter “Learning to be a node” The chapter is about how social networks depend on competent nodes and

Scoops in Journalism and Everyday Life

Jay Rosen has a post today titled “Four Types of Scoops” that will surely make it into my sociology of information book.  The four types

Should Your Company Tell You Your Secrets

Nice sociology of info two-fer in Forbes article about Target being able to detect pregnancy based on purchases (see also “How Companies Learn Your Secrets”in

Bloomberg Contra Notification Norms

Consider a recent NYT article by Mosi Secret and Michael Barbaro about the controversy over New York mayor Michael Bloomberg’s failure to inform the public