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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

DEANZ Conference

13 August 2008

in (e)Learning & (e)Teaching

I am off to Wellington on Sunday to the DEANZ (Distance Education Association of New Zealand) Conference. I will be blogging as I attend sessions, so expect a sudden burst of activity

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Six Degrees of Separation

13 August 2008

in Other Stuff

There’s a lot being webbed and blogged about the Microsoft six degrees research at the moment. It seems that we might all be linked by 6 degrees of separation after all. The research looked at 30bn instant messages in one month in 2006. Apparently the sample was linked by seven or fewer acquaintances. With such a large sample it seems unlikely that this will just be regarded as folk-lore or myth in the future.

In New Zealand I would think that we are linked by three degrees of separation. At times it feels just like a big village.

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