The Tree House

There is a widespread hypothesis — Six degrees of separation — holding that any two people in the world are separated by a chain of no more than six acquaintances.  I think that blogging may have the potential to reduce this!

I met David Muir at a masterclass workshop.  I got a link from his bloglines to the history teacher.  This looked interesting so I too subscribed in my bloglines. On this blog this morning was a link to an article in the washinton post about teachers blogging.  This in turn made reference to a number of teachers blogs.  The one by David Warlick caught my eye

“I have an idea, I put it on my blog,” said David Warlick, of 2 Cents Worth ( http://davidwarlick.com/2cents ), who teaches teachers around the country how to use blogs. “I learn something as a result. This last year has been the most incredible learning year of my life because of this ongoing conversation of ideas through blogging.”

Every time I come across someone with some interesting ideas, I add them to my bloglines - the next time they say something, I am notified, and in a sense, have moved to n-1 degrees of separation.  I guess that I am becoming hooked on social networking in the same way that teenagers are with Bebo!