The interlocking directorates, today: Toby Segaran makes a map of corporate board membership showing the 212 most connected of the top 400 companies by market capitalization. Louis Brandeis would be so pleased.
Click on the image to see the original blog post, which contains a larger image. Oh, and notice Toby got his data from Freebase, which is totally awesome.
The Edge of the American West 
9 comments
May 3, 2008 at 7:17 am
eric
Actually, you know what else looks really cool? Lazybase. I’ll have to play with that.
May 3, 2008 at 8:52 am
Ben Alpers
Thanks, eric! I was totally unaware of Freebase, which seems like it could be potentially very interesting and, as its name suggests, a totally addictive time sink.
May 4, 2008 at 11:12 am
Shosha
That’s really scary!!!
May 4, 2008 at 11:15 am
john p
The program or the fact that they’re all connected? Doesn’t shock me.
May 4, 2008 at 11:24 am
Shosha
That they’re all connected.
May 4, 2008 at 12:32 pm
student
I heard that there’s public databases like Freebase with all professors’ salaries on it.
May 4, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Hemlock
So what?
May 4, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Jason B
I looked at the chart. I went to the original post. I read big words.
Then my head asplode.
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