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Yeah I saw that on another list... quite cool.

But, it is not 11 degrees of separation!  Degrees are the number of 
alters [people he is connected to], separation is measured in path 
lengths or steps.  He is one step from everyone and the alters are two 
steps from each other.

Kyle operates/trades on 2 step paths where he is always in the 
middle[Queen Between].  He might have 11 alters and therefore his 
degree centrality score is 11 [or 1.0 if you normalize, his betweenness 
centrality is also 1.0 normalized].  I bet his 11 alters do not know 
each other, so he has many structural holes to play with...  quite a 
real life story for your theory Ron!

Valdis



On Apr 17, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Blyden B. Potts wrote:

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> A man, a red paper clip and the Web
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> Kyle MacDonald is using the power of the Internet to trade up a paper 
> clip
> to a house.

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