Four short links: 10 February 2010 - Open Source Government Tools, Insider Journalism, Open Clip Art, Mining Facebook … (O’Reilly Media)
How To Split Up The US — clique analysis from 210 million public Facebook profiles. Some of these clusters are intuitive, like the old south, but there’s some surprises too, like Missouri, Louisiana and Arkansas having closer ties to Texas than Georgia. To make sense of the patterns I’m seeing, I’ve marked and labeled the clusters, and added some notes about the properties they have in common …

