The article \u201cUsing Metadata to Find Paul Revere by Kieran Healy was very interesting because it allowed the reader to get an understanding of how we could relate the mediums of social networking to going through historical data. Paralleling people on social media today to historical figure Paul Revere drives home the point that information stripping technologies of today can be used to find important people of the past due to repetition. The relationships between people, the interconnections between groups and the overarching figures allow historians to learn who the key players of history are just like today. Also, through chronicling and annotating every social connection between people and groups, the author suggests that you could one day be able to learn more about their social and personal life. My peer, NL, relates this article to the six degrees of Francis Bacon \u201cbecause they both showed that important people can be found using unbiased network analysis\u201d. The one thing I found a little troubling to understand was how social media analysis would work in the future. Looking at the information we have of the past, it was only the most famous who were written about. Only the most important were a part of organizations, social groups and clubs. Now, whether it be the most important or the least important person, there is so much information on every human being. How will someone know that Barack Obama is more important than say, Snooki 100 years from now?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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