The use of the Directory through tools such as RelFinder has been of particular interest as it provides an innovative and intuitive way to mine connections among participants and knowledge.
It's a canary-in-the-coal-mine connection.
Like Gautama Chopra, most children of writers mine their connections on the path to publication.
The relationship between the performer and the audience is at the core of theater, but it has become so mediated by microphones, animation and various media that in downtown shows like "Finn," a soul-less new video-game adventure by the avant-garde pioneers Mabou Mines, any connection at all appears remote.
The issue has become so fraught that De Beers this week threatened Survival International with a lawsuit for continuing to insist publicly that evictions of Bushmen were linked to diamond mining, a connection denied by the Botswana government, by European legislators, by other British and Botswanan advocacy groups, by De Beers and by De Beers LV, the retail joint venture.
And now Facebook is mining that connection to build its own search engine.
The paper describes the transformation process of the East-German brown coal mining in connection with the reorganization of the power industry after the political change in 1989.
Mr. Thorpe's work appears to mine the connection between English and American history while conflating the failed utopias and countercultures of the 19th and 20th centuries with references to science fiction, design, religion and exile.
Intel's story goes on to suggest a further chapter in the narrative of the woman whose device has bought gig tickets: it realises that the gig is in a town that's a little difficult to reach, so it mines the connections between her friends and comes up with a suggestion to connect with a friend of a friend who could give her a lift to the gig.
He is not viewed as a "princeling," an appellation given those who have mined family connections for lucrative business opportunities or, in a few cases, political power.
