Infographic: You just got Slashdotted   Each red dot represents
a key member or "driver node" of tech site Slashdot's social
network.  Mauro Martino   Want to control your social network?
There's an algorithm for it. Developed by mathematicians Jean-
Jacques Slotine from MIT and Yang-Yu Liu and Albert-László
Barabási from Northeastern University, Boston, the algorithm
identifies "driver nodes" -- the part of a network to target in
order to control it. They applied it to a range of networks and
designer Mauro Martino created visualisations of the results.
Above is a representation of an 800,000-sample of Slashdot
users. "A small number of individuals has real influence," says
Slotine. "But these aren't the most popular people -- it's not
obvious who the influential ones are."  A larger version of the
above infographic can be found in the gallery below.   Latest on