My Issue Entrepreneurship

Your message.
1. What is your sticky message? (Barabasi 3) What is the idea you wish to promote or issue/problem you want to try to 'solve'?

The Japanese educational system.
It should be reformed and be more liberal in order to many educational problems in Japan.


Knowledge of social network.
2. Who is your strategic social group? Can you identify and define the organisational base you will need to develop and/or tap into?

Children.
Parents.
Teachers.
Of course, shcool.


Strategy for network building.
3. How will work to create your organisational base? How will you spread and encourage others to take up your message?

I will make a blog and write my opinion on it. Then I will ask many people to link their Web sites to my blog.

Barabasi, A.L., Linked (2003) The Third Link: Six Degrees of Separation, pp. 25-35

Summary
Barabasi claims that the unbelievably small number of links can connect two randomly selected nodes in a network. According to him, so-called “six degrees of separation” is a good example. It originates from an experiment performed by a Harvard professor, Staley Milgram. The result of experiment told us that two randomly selected person are separated by only 5.5 persons on average in United States. Barabasi and other people also conducted an experiment, and estimated that the number of links necessary to connect two documents in Web is 18.59 on average. Barabasi insists the average degrees of separation in a network can be calculated with mathematical method.

Reaction
Although Barabasi’s opinion is interesting, he seemed to ignore the influence on human interrelationship by technology. Contrary to the age Milgram live in, now we have a number of Web technologies which connect us very easily and quickly. For example, SNS is close to “social search engine” (p.32), which Barabasi regards impossible. Of course SNS is an example and is still undeveloped, but Barabasi should take into consideration the influence of such technologies.

Reply to Kenta's Summary and Reaction

Thank you for making a comment on my summary and reaction, Kenta.
I hope the following comment will be helpful for you as well.

Summary
Very well summarized. Especially, the comparison of the two persons (i.e. Paul and MafiaBoy) is successful. In addition to the common thing they have, you depict the difference of them clearly.

Reaction
Your reaction is good because both agreement and objection are presented. As well as the accurate understanding Barabasi's insistence, you criticize the important problem of that. In fact, Barabasi does not mention what makes Paul and MafiaBoy different even if the question is important for thinking about the utilization of networks. If possible, I would like to hear your opinion about the cause of the difference as well.

Linked (2003) The First Link: Introduction, pp. 1-8

Summary
Barabasi insists that we live in complex interrelations made up of various factors, and through the networks we can have deep impacts on the world. Barabasi uses the examples of two persons in order to explain that. One of them is a fifteen-year-old boy called Mafiaboy, who hacked many computers through the Internet and attacked famous web sites such as Yahoo. Another one is Paul, who amazingly made Christianity begin to be the dominant religion in the Western world. Barabasi argues that both of them similarly use the power of social or computer networks, and as a result, they succeeded. Based on reductionism, science has developed while ignoring the importance of network, or interactions of things. However, he says, recent researchers are starting to look at the hidden power of networks so that they can see the world as a whole. The science of networks has just begun to develop. Barabasi strongly recommends us to study and know more about networks.

Reaction
Barabasi seemes to unconsciously assume that people in the whole world do not realize the importance of network, but his perception is nearsighted because such people are actually limited to modern Western people, and before the modernization of the world, relationism was not hidden, but very popular. The idea of engi (pratityasamutpada) in Buddhism is a good example. Engi means that everything is caused from, and causes everything, as the idea Barabasi presents in the text. Such a kind of thought, or relationism, was not given only by Buddhists. Taking look at the world history, one can easily find many examples of that. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that relationism is a very familiar idea for human-being, especially for premodern people. The significant problem is that reductionism actually has been dominant in the world from the beginning of modernization, and it still continues to spread. Obviously, Reductionism has strong power. It is not too much to say that without reductionism there cannot be great technologies in the world as we see now. Although Barabasi does not realize, it is important to ask why reductionism has beaten relationism, and how relationism can revive without abandoning the fruits of reductionism.

My Technobiography

When I met a personal computer for the first time, I was seven years old or so. Since then, I have done various things including games, music, shopping and so on, with PC .

I learned HTML and made some web sites. I made blogs as well.
Recently I have created a wiki site for a workshop.
I am now interested in SNS like mixi.