Zero to One Degrees of Separation (and Counting), AKA the Library Kevin Bacon Game

A loonng time ago (almost 11 years) my colleague Ed Tallent and I wrote a Backtalk for LJ entitled, "Beware Blogging Blunders" (it was so long ago that we had to define blogging for our audience). In it, we talked about how whatever you put online will follow you around, personally and professionally, for, well, forever. How very naïve that sounds today, when folks are laying bare their souls (and much else) on social media sites, and it seems that many individuals want you to be aware of their every move and bodily function. At the time we wrote that piece, we posited that three degrees of separation were in operation in the library world; now, as you know, it’s more like none to one, since so often we get to know someone virtually long before we meet them in person (if we ever do), and that network can extend to librarians everywhere.