I was reading a literature review paper of Knowledge Management by Kakabadse (link to pdf on emerald)  but was stopped by the following passage:

Is it just me or it really implies that Plato said all those things in 1953?

Apart from this minor flaw (and I’m not sure if it’s even a flaw), this was a very good review.

A while ago, I stumbled upon a fascinating project on Berkman’s center for cyber law at Harvard. Using automatic content analysis they have compiled a map of Iranian blogsphere. There is a glimpse of what the visualised 3D map looks like at it looks great. See for yourselves:

As you can see seven Categories (networks of blogs) are identifiable on the map and the relative position of these shows how these networks relate to one another. for example “reformist politics” is neighboring “Secular/expatriate” and, as you might expect, religious youth” is close to “Twelvers” and “concervative politics”. The two red dots in the low-center are former-president Khatami and now-president Ahmadinejad. The position of these two are especially interesting in the map. Again as expected politicians tend to stay away from the noise and stick somewhere in the middle.

What would be interesting to see is though if Harvard repeated this study in time periods and then studied the trend that Iranian bloggers follow. An Iranian-blogger life-cycle of the mind if you will. I suspect it will reveal a movement from the twelver network to secular/expatriot. Ofcourse all of these networks have some dedicated and non-moving Citizens who would not change parties but a certain number (mostly youth I suspect)  will eventually read some article about evolution and new scientific discoveries and turn into seculars. I have no Idea about the speed in which this movement might happen and I also have no guess about other directions that the blogs from other networks might move in the blogsphere. Hope John Kelly and Bruce Etling continue their work on Iranian bloggers. You can download their worthy paper here.