Small Worlds: been reading lately about the Small Worlds concept and how it applies to the Web. The original 'six degrees' concept was discovered in the 1960s by Harvard sociologist Stanley Milgram.
Milgram asked randomly chosen people in a midwestern town to mail a postcard to a Boston stockbroker in the following fashion: they were to send it to someone they knew on a first-name basis and who they though might be closer to the Boston guy either professionally or geographically.
Average path was six: most people in a large population are connected by only a short chain of acquaintances. The Web is wired the same way. More from Huberman's new book.
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