“At the retreat I went to the weekend before last, we were each asked to offer a word or small phrase that held special meaning for us. I’ll save my word for a later post, but I was particularly intrigued by Clay Shirky’s — ’small-world.’ Specifically, Clay expressed interest in the ’small-world phenomenon,’ which probably has it’s most popular expression in the notion of ’six degrees of separation’ and ‘Kevin Bacon is the center of the universe.’”

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