E-mail reveals real leaders: This is very cool work. Some guys at HP Labs have developed a way to automatically determine organisational and leadership structures (which they call “communities of practice”) by analysing e-mail traffic. The paper (PDF format) is here. I can imagine some people feeling quite threatened by this, because it identifies the real, rather than the nominal, leaders. Good work. #
More news of the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong and Vietnam. Don’t need this.