Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3hehvcFIW1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“The 1318 transnational corporations that form the core of the economy. Superconnected companies are red, very connected companies are yellow. The size of the dot represents revenue”, from an <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html">article in New Scientist</a> reporting on a paper by </span><span>Stefania Vitali</span><span>, </span><a href="http://arxiv.org/find/q-fin/1/au:+Glattfelder_J/0/1/0/all/0/1http://www.sg.ethz.ch/people/formercoll/jglattfelder">James B. Glattfelder</a><span>, and </span><span>Stefano Battiston</span>, <em><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5728">The network of global corporate control</a></em>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a “super-entity” of 147 even more tightly knit companies - all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity - that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. “In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network,” says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.</span></p> </blockquote>http://notes.husk.org/post/22369019659http://notes.husk.org/post/22369019659Fri, 04 May 2012 05:44:49 +0100imagecapitalismnetworkconnectiontransnational companiesnew scientistplos one“On my keyring, everywhere I go, I carry a piece of London.”<br/><br/> - <em><p>Tom Armitage: <a href="http://berglondon.com/blog/2011/02/23/totems-and-city-avatars/">Totems and City Avatars</a>.</p> <p>Even thought my bike hire key is just useless dead weight here, I do the same.</p></em>http://notes.husk.org/post/3488993401http://notes.husk.org/post/3488993401Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:27:00 +0000quotetom armitagetotembike hirelondonkeyfobrfidplaceconnection“I felt the need to belong when I took pictures to discover something inside myself while making an emotional connection to my subjects.”<br/><br/> - <em><span>Bruce Davidson, quoted by <span><a href="http://mseclecticmedia.tumblr.com/post/932930013/last-week-i-went-to-the-bronx-museum-of-arts-to">Eclectic Media</a> in their <a href="http://mseclecticmedia.tumblr.com/post/932930013/last-week-i-went-to-the-bronx-museum-of-arts-to">commentary</a> on<span> the <a href="http://www.bronxmuseum.org/freedom.html">Road to Freedom</a> exhibition at the Bronx Museum.</span></span></span></em>http://notes.husk.org/post/1004340478http://notes.husk.org/post/1004340478Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:49:50 +0100quotereblogbruce davidsonconnection