Open source board game

I’m still searching for a board game producer who can mass produce Net-Map boxes at the price and quality that makes sense. Today I found bluepanther, who look interesting and from their website I landed in a different universe that was unknown to me before: The world of Piecepack. “Flexible. Portable. Affordable. Public domain. The [...]

To do list deluxe

This is really simple and really helpful – at least for me. A structured to-do list that looks like this: Try it out and you’ll see that it is a very easy way of being much more organized that with your standard to do list. You think you don’t need the “not important, not urgent” [...]

Philosophical and methodological issues

Paolo makes an interesting point below about the research philosophical issues you would run into by developing what he calls Net-Map 0.2. The fact that by rating links following a mechanical rule (depending on their distance to the interview partner) one does not necessarily get closer to meaning and that it might lead us into [...]

Do you know if someone you know knows someone else you know?

This is a question that makes mapping networks tricky, if you go beyond everyone’s immediate links. When doing Net-Maps, we normally ask: “Who is involved in XY? How are they linked?” So our interview partners give us some information about their own links but also on the linkages between others. Krackhard has coined the term [...]

Collect, consolidate, validate

We learn about the Net-Map method as we go and define it as we use it. One problem we often encountered is: How do we consolidate different views of various interview partners to get to a common network map that describes the situation? There are quantitative approaches to this, but I am wary about them, [...]

Another passion…

of mine are novels. One sister calls me a Buchtrinker (bookdrinker) because of the speed with which I gobble my books, the other one says: “Letter addict”, because she knows that I’ll also read the back of every corn flakes box or tomato tin in the house. Most of the times I forget the story [...]