Comments on: Six Degrees of Richard Herring http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/08/18/six-degrees-of-richard-herring/ Usability an' that Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:46:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Thomas Thurman http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/08/18/six-degrees-of-richard-herring/comment-page-1/#comment-496 Thomas Thurman Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:43:34 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/08/18/six-degrees-of-richard-herring/#comment-496 This may be thrilling, but it's not terribly new-- the craze for this has been coming round Wikipedia every so often for years. :/ This may be thrilling, but it’s not terribly new– the craze for this has been coming round Wikipedia every so often for years. :/

]]> By: calum http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/08/18/six-degrees-of-richard-herring/comment-page-1/#comment-495 calum Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:17:54 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/08/18/six-degrees-of-richard-herring/#comment-495 @James: yes, that was explicitly disallowed :) @Anonymous: you're no fun... @James: yes, that was explicitly disallowed :)

@Anonymous: you’re no fun…

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/08/18/six-degrees-of-richard-herring/comment-page-1/#comment-494 Anonymous Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:09:18 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/08/18/six-degrees-of-richard-herring/#comment-494 Someone built a search tool to find the shortest paths a while back. See http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/wiki/ . For your example, you actually only need three clicks: Argentina Brunetti Italy Italian fascism La Cagoule The reverse takes four: La Cagoule Italy Sicily List of Sicilian Americans Argentina Brunetti Someone built a search tool to find the shortest paths a while back. See http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/wiki/ .

For your example, you actually only need three clicks:

Argentina Brunetti
Italy
Italian fascism
La Cagoule

The reverse takes four:

La Cagoule
Italy
Sicily
List of Sicilian Americans
Argentina Brunetti

]]> By: James Henstridge http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/08/18/six-degrees-of-richard-herring/comment-page-1/#comment-493 James Henstridge Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:58:55 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/08/18/six-degrees-of-richard-herring/#comment-493 Is it cheating to add the links to wikipedia yourself? Is it cheating to add the links to wikipedia yourself?

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