Six Degrees of Kottke

November 13, 2001 9:49 PM

Six degrees of kottke. what's yours? (can't find a permalink...)
posted by moz to General Weblog-Related at 9:49 PM (48 comments total)

i score a 3 -- i'm as shocked as you are.
posted by moz at 9:51 PM on November 13, 2001

If we allow for MeFi (and for self-links), I imagine most score a 2.
posted by Marquis at 10:07 PM on November 13, 2001

no no, you can't count mefi.
posted by moz at 10:16 PM on November 13, 2001

I think that your MeFi profile page should be considered a self-link and as such, not counted.
Yes, this is an attempt to *distance* myself as much as possible.
posted by Su at 10:16 PM on November 13, 2001

Here's a permanent link.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 10:23 PM on November 13, 2001

I have a 2, legitimately. (Kottke links to Zeldman, Zeldman links to webmutant.com on his Exit Gallery page.) What do I win?
posted by webmutant at 1:43 AM on November 14, 2001

Kottke links to X, X has a Google engine, Google links to...
posted by j.edwards at 1:49 AM on November 14, 2001

Praise Kottke, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above your own webhost! Praise Jason, Meg and even Matt!

Ahhhh-men!
posted by crunchland at 3:03 AM on November 14, 2001

Did this on my old blog a few months ago; I have multiple 2-hops from Kottke, and I've also made arrangements to be listed on his links sidebar around 2006 or so.
posted by hijinx at 6:00 AM on November 14, 2001

So are my 2 degrees of separation somehow less legitimate because I'm linked by a person listed in Kottke's "C-List"?
posted by jennak at 7:08 AM on November 14, 2001

Kottke . . .
links to Q Daily News (via Kottke's B-list) . . .
links to Cheesedip . . .
links to Hobbsblog II . . .
links to Sean Meade . . .
links to Respublica. . .
links to iceberg273.

Six degrees of Jason Kottke! (Of course, you actually have to click 7 times because of the B-list).
posted by iceberg273 at 7:33 AM on November 14, 2001

*ahem*

Some of us are just a little too cool for kottke.

Oh, who am I kidding? Link me, link me, dammit!

I'll wash your car!

Like, weekly!

*cries*
posted by Kafkaesque at 8:33 AM on November 14, 2001

Now see what you've done?
posted by iceberg273 at 8:50 AM on November 14, 2001

You can find your 'kottke-degrees' even faster by using A Picture of Weblogs, posted recently at MeFi by Arnab.
posted by tamim at 8:57 AM on November 14, 2001

I'm a 2, via RC3.org. (Not that I care.)
posted by Steven Den Beste at 10:14 AM on November 14, 2001

icebert273, your list is one shorter -- RC3 to me to Sean.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 10:15 AM on November 14, 2001

Kottke to Ev to me, nothin' but net.
posted by kindall at 10:34 AM on November 14, 2001

icebert273, your list is one shorter -- RC3 to me to Sean.

Huzzah!
posted by iceberg273 at 10:37 AM on November 14, 2001

kottke is totally screwing up my kottke degree, now.
posted by moz at 10:37 AM on November 14, 2001

one.
posted by jessamyn at 10:38 AM on November 14, 2001

What the hell is a "weblog"?
posted by Skot at 10:39 AM on November 14, 2001

One thousand four hundred and eighty-three.

Why?
posted by Grangousier at 10:57 AM on November 14, 2001

WELL WHY DON'T YOU JUST SLEEP WITH HIM?!?!
posted by holloway at 11:54 AM on November 14, 2001

aww, he loves you guys, it's so cute....
posted by mattpfeff at 11:56 AM on November 14, 2001

I guess sleeping with him finally paid off!
posted by Kafkaesque at 12:19 PM on November 14, 2001

tamim gets a link and doesn't even have a blog? *sniffle*

I guess my consolation prize (for being a huge loser and missing out) is that I score a 2 now instead of 3. Oh, yay!
posted by lnicole at 12:26 PM on November 14, 2001

Does he link to a major search engine? I'd be a two then.
posted by starduck at 1:08 PM on November 14, 2001

Um, Kaf, wash your car for a week if you'll help me climb up to 2-dom. If you don't have a car, we can negotiate what I would wash.
posted by gleuschk at 1:16 PM on November 14, 2001

I can make anybody a 3, contact me to discuss terms.
posted by sudama at 2:54 PM on November 14, 2001

I hope this doesn't trash my chances at getting on the B-List.
posted by Su at 3:09 PM on November 14, 2001

much like dance dance revolution, i am sure that i would just embarass myself trying to play this game. i've got better chances being connected to kevin bacon.
posted by lotsofno at 3:20 PM on November 14, 2001

I was actually connected to Kevin Bacon for the first 8 months of my life, but was surgically detached in a revolutionary procedure using only a circular saw and good intentions.

To this day I can eat only Sizzlean for breakfast.
posted by Kafkaesque at 3:32 PM on November 14, 2001

I am also three degrees from Kevin Bacon. Please excuse me while I flee paparazzi.
posted by jessamyn at 3:50 PM on November 14, 2001

Damn, I've been fellating kottke for months now, and not so much as a link.
posted by mikewas at 4:06 PM on November 14, 2001

hey why link the cow when you can get the fellatio for free?
posted by Kafkaesque at 4:11 PM on November 14, 2001

I'm an undergrad underling for Blogdex, and I'm actually working on something like this. As we speak, I'm running a script over the list of all the links Blogdex has ever collected to see which blogs link to which blogs. It's a "dumb" first crack, because it doesn't take into account the regularity of the links (i.e., the links in the A-list on Kottke.org are not considered any different from a link he puts in a post), but it'd provide a rough sketch. Anyway, once that's done, I'd just have to run a breadth-first-search on those links to get your kottke distance, or your zeldman distance, or your little green footballs distance, or whatever. Maybe within the week?
posted by MonkeyMeat at 4:53 PM on November 14, 2001

So now it's one.

Goodness.

This Kottke fellow certainly has a lot of friends.
posted by Grangousier at 12:36 AM on November 15, 2001

By "friends", obviously, I meant "devoted and erudite readers".

Sorry.
posted by Grangousier at 1:38 AM on November 15, 2001

You MIT boys are always hoarding my good ideas. :) I guess my 6 degrees of kottke plan is moot if the BlogDex crew at the MIT media lab is on the case.

Damn you MonkeyBoy *shakes fist*

Ok, I'm over it. I'm just glad it's getting done.


Tim

--SaltedWound.com
--6 Degrees of Kottke Brain Child
posted by SaltedWound at 8:37 AM on November 15, 2001

Well, we're all in there now. I hope you all are happy. But reading the definition he gives, does this make us zeros?
posted by j.edwards at 7:39 AM on November 16, 2001

Hey, J: *boot*
posted by Su at 7:58 AM on November 16, 2001

Special K - If you link me, I'll hunt you down, cut your liver out, and eat it raw.

Honest.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:26 AM on November 16, 2001

ah, stav, you're playing with fire. JK burned me (nicely played, btw, JK), he'll burn you too, but not when you expect it. He'll chuckle for a while at your attempt to lure him, and wait and watch. He'll plot, he'll connive. Then, when you're most exposed, he'll feint, he'll lunge -- a link, two links, a comment and a witty retort. Your most personal fears advertised to the world. Your server trembling under the weight. Your comment fields swelled to burst-point and your inbox deluged with desperate intreaties for more background on Bosco T and his Koffke Konnection.

And it will all have been for nothing, nothing I tell you. Because Koffke, you see, doesn't have a liver.
posted by mattpfeff at 9:19 AM on November 16, 2001

What's a "koffke"?
posted by Steven Den Beste at 11:08 AM on November 16, 2001

What's a "koffke"?

I know, damn, that was bad. There is a Coffee Connection or something somewhere and I had further confounded myself by earlier referring to him as 'JK'. Argh....
posted by mattpfeff at 11:46 AM on November 16, 2001

[voice style="homer"]
Mmmmmm, koffke
[/voice]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:29 PM on November 16, 2001

Come on guys... You're missing the obvious link

1. Kottke links to MetaFilter
2. MetaFilter has a link to my profile
3. My MeFi profile shows my webpage.

3!
posted by PWA_BadBoy at 9:42 PM on November 16, 2001

Look at the second comment, PWA.
posted by gleemax at 11:19 PM on November 16, 2001