{"id":21909,"date":"2013-05-05T08:46:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T08:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=21909"},"modified":"2013-05-05T08:46:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T08:46:07","slug":"jottings-6-how-the-network-works-it-seems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=21909","title":{"rendered":"Jottings 6: How the network works, it seems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; often puzzled &#038; shocked at the way some algorithms behave in public ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I was on <strong>Silobreaker<\/strong> this evening, looking at a page called <a href=\"http:\/\/news.silobreaker.com\/dead-terrorist-tamerlan-tsarnaev-channeled-islamic-videos-5_2266761012285800595\">Dead Terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev Channeled Islamic Videos<\/a>, and what I found curious was this little <strong>network diagram<\/strong>, presumably algorithmically-generated from the Silobreaker database:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Network.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Network.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Network\" width=\"610\" height=\"362\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Network.png 610w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Network-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have to tell you, I like network diagrams &#8212; but what are we supposed to infer from that?<\/p>\n<p>Do you see the same diagram when you visit the site &#8212; or is this display just for me, knowing what books I buy, what movies I see, what friends I have &#8212; and tailored to sell me something, or get my vote? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; often puzzled &#038; shocked at the way some algorithms behave in public ] . I was on Silobreaker this evening, looking at a page called Dead Terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev Channeled Islamic Videos, and what I found curious was this little network diagram, presumably algorithmically-generated from the Silobreaker database: I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,892,168,753,376,14,533,1,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-qaida","category-black-banner","category-boston","category-islam","category-network-theory","category-networks","category-religion","category-uncategorized","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21909"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21925,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21909\/revisions\/21925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}