Comments on: Six Degrees of Kottke

Six Degrees of Kottke

moz — Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:49:01 -0800

Six degrees of kottke. what's yours? (can't find a permalink...)

By: moz

moz — Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:51:25 -0800

i score a 3 -- i'm as shocked as you are.

By: Marquis

Marquis — Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:07:08 -0800

If we allow for MeFi (and for self-links), I imagine most score a 2.

By: moz

moz — Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:16:11 -0800

no no, you can't count mefi.

By: Su

Su — Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:16:52 -0800

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.

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:23:36 -0800

Here's a permanent link.

By: webmutant

webmutant — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 01:43:49 -0800

I have a 2, legitimately. (Kottke links to Zeldman, Zeldman links to webmutant.com on his Exit Gallery page.) What do I win?

By: j.edwards

j.edwards — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 01:49:24 -0800

Kottke links to X, X has a Google engine, Google links to...

By: crunchland

crunchland — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 03:03:37 -0800

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!

By: hijinx

hijinx — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 06:00:58 -0800

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.

By: jennak

jennak — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:08:35 -0800

So are my 2 degrees of separation somehow less legitimate because I'm linked by a person listed in Kottke's "C-List"?

By: iceberg273

iceberg273 — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:33:03 -0800

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).

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:33:23 -0800

*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*

By: iceberg273

iceberg273 — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:50:56 -0800

Now see what you've done?

By: tamim

tamim — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:57:11 -0800

You can find your 'kottke-degrees' even faster by using A Picture of Weblogs, posted recently at MeFi by Arnab.

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:14:34 -0800

I'm a 2, via RC3.org. (Not that I care.)

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:15:54 -0800

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

By: kindall

kindall — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:34:21 -0800

Kottke to Ev to me, nothin' but net.

By: iceberg273

iceberg273 — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:37:18 -0800

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

Huzzah!

By: moz

moz — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:37:19 -0800

kottke is totally screwing up my kottke degree, now.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:38:21 -0800

one.

By: Skot

Skot — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:39:24 -0800

What the hell is a "weblog"?

By: Grangousier

Grangousier — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:57:30 -0800

One thousand four hundred and eighty-three.

Why?

By: holloway

holloway — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:54:10 -0800

WELL WHY DON'T YOU JUST SLEEP WITH HIM?!?!

By: mattpfeff

mattpfeff — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:56:22 -0800

aww, he loves you guys, it's so cute....

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:19:36 -0800

I guess sleeping with him finally paid off!

By: lnicole

lnicole — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:26:43 -0800

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!

By: starduck

starduck — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:08:11 -0800

Does he link to a major search engine? I'd be a two then.

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:16:44 -0800

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.

By: sudama

sudama — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:54:28 -0800

I can make anybody a 3, contact me to discuss terms.

By: Su

Su — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:09:43 -0800

I hope this doesn't trash my chances at getting on the B-List.

By: lotsofno

lotsofno — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:20:12 -0800

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.

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:32:10 -0800

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.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:50:13 -0800

I am also three degrees from Kevin Bacon. Please excuse me while I flee paparazzi.

By: mikewas

mikewas — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:06:02 -0800

Damn, I've been fellating kottke for months now, and not so much as a link.

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:11:19 -0800

hey why link the cow when you can get the fellatio for free?

By: MonkeyMeat

MonkeyMeat — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:53:58 -0800

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?

By: Grangousier

Grangousier — Thu, 15 Nov 2001 00:36:31 -0800

So now it's one.

Goodness.

This Kottke fellow certainly has a lot of friends.

By: Grangousier

Grangousier — Thu, 15 Nov 2001 01:38:13 -0800

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

Sorry.

By: SaltedWound

SaltedWound — Thu, 15 Nov 2001 08:37:27 -0800

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

By: j.edwards

j.edwards — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 07:39:50 -0800

Well, we're all in there now. I hope you all are happy. But reading the definition he gives, does this make us zeros?

By: Su

Su — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 07:58:58 -0800

Hey, J: *boot*

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:26:35 -0800

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

Honest.

By: mattpfeff

mattpfeff — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:19:18 -0800

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.

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:08:17 -0800

What's a "koffke"?

By: mattpfeff

mattpfeff — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:46:36 -0800

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....

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 18:29:43 -0800

[voice style="homer"]
Mmmmmm, koffke
[/voice]

By: PWA_BadBoy

PWA_BadBoy — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 21:42:59 -0800

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!

By: gleemax

gleemax — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 23:19:27 -0800

Look at the second comment, PWA.