Reply to Mio's Issue Entrepreneurship

I agree with Mio's point that English education should be started from primary school. As with language I think that it is "the earlier the better."

Posting Mio's message in the web pages related to education is a good idea. May be Mio could also post on web pages that parents are likely to see, so that they could ask schools and the government to start English education earlier.

Issue Entrepreneurship

What is your sticky message?
-Things related to environmental issues

Who is your strategic social group?
-Mainly university students

How will work to create your organisation base?
-I will post my message on popular SNS widely used by students, such as mixi

Summary and Personal Reaction to "Linked" (Barabasi p 25-35)

Summary
Frigyes Karinthy was the first person to give the perspective that "people are linked by at most five links" and this lead to the concept known as "six degrees of separation" today. In 1967, Stanley Milgram set out an experiment to find out the distance between any two people in the USA and came to the result that people are separated by 5.5 people. Through this experiment he gave out the message that "our world is small because society is a very dense web" and that the social links among people are quite tight.
To find out how many degrees are between webs, Barabasi worked with Reka Albert and Hawoong Jeong to reach the answer that any document is on average only nineteen clicks away from any other.

Personal Reaction
It is surprising to know that the medium between any two person are only six people. Although there could be exceptions because Milgram based the result only on 42 cases, the idea of finding out the distance between two strangers is very interesting. It is easier to think that the medium between webs are nineteen because every web sites has numerous and various links to other sites.

Reply to Takako's Personal Reaction

I too thought the reading was very interesting by comparing such different people-Paul and MafiaBoy, one being a builder and the other a destroyer, one is contributing to the world and the other committing crime.
Also I agree with you that we are living a world connected by many links yet we hardly realize or pay attention to these networks. Without these networks we could not do anything. Everything we have today, from food to schools, is contributed by many different connections among people. Perhaps we really should have better knowledge and pay more attention to the networks we are in.

Reply to Emi's Summary

I think Emi 's summary was clearly written. Also Emi ended by writing "The aim of this book is getting you to think networks, and step out the box of reductionism and explore" which gives reader an overview of the book and know what information to expect from the book.

Summary and Personal Reaction to "Linked" (Barabasi p 1-8)

Summary
In the year 2000, Yahoo's computer system was attacked by a fifteen year old boy, the MafiaBoy. Instead of serving customers flocking the Internet search engine, the computers in Yahoo's headquarters of Santa Clara was busy responding to the message "Yes, I heard you " sent by scripted computer language. Two thousand years ago from the MafiaBoy, Paul was using theology and social networks effectively to spread the Christianity to the world. There is one common thing in the two seemingly different men: they were "masters of the network." MafiaBoy took over the network of computers and Paul utilized the social and religious links of that time. They were successful because we live in a world of interrelatedness.

Personal Reaction
It is interesting to compare MafiaBoy and Paul even though one is a destroyer and the other is a builder. MafiaBoy became the master of the network taking only one day, whereas Paul accomplished the network taking his whole life.

Techno-Biography

I am joining the SNS(social network service) called mixi. I use the e-mail service in it and read my friends' blogs.