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Publication: KMWorld
Publication Date: 01-MAY-03
Format: Online - approximately 862 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Quick, connect actor Kevin Bacon to personal knowledge management in six steps or less. Hmm ...

In 1995, Brian Turtle, Craig Fass and Mike Gianelli get snowed in somewhere in Pennsylvania. Stuck watching "Footloose" on TV, they invent a game that says you can link Bacon to anyone else in...

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...Hollywood based on whom they have starred with. The game becomes a cult phenomenon because it works for anyone except Bacon himself, who can't remember half the movies he's starred in.

The game's premise is an example of the "Small Worlds" theory developed in the 1960s by psychologist Stanley Milgram, which posited there are no more than "six degrees of separation" between any two people in America.

I have never met Bacon, but when I was. in high...

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