{"id":1179,"date":"2004-04-21T11:11:51","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T11:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/04\/21\/decrease_your_erdos_number.html"},"modified":"2004-04-21T11:11:51","modified_gmt":"2004-04-21T11:11:51","slug":"decrease_your_erdos_number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/04\/21\/decrease_your_erdos_number.html","title":{"rendered":"decrease your erdos number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this ebay auction has me ROFL:  <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=3189039958\">Decrease Your Erdos Number!<\/a>  If you&#8217;re a social networks geek, or a mathematician, physicist or computer scientist, you must check this out.  Too funny.  And there are even bids!<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Now that i&#8217;ve learned a bit more about <a href=\"http:\/\/williamtozier.com\/slurry\/\">the history and state<\/a> of this auction, i thought i&#8217;d inform the curious reader of <a href=\"http:\/\/xenia.media.mit.edu\/~peretti\/\">Jonah Peretti&#8217;s antics<\/a>, normally called contagious media.  Jonah set off a few memes of his own to see how they would spread &#8211; the Nike Sweatshop Email and the Rejection Hotline are my favorites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this ebay auction has me ROFL: Decrease Your Erdos Number! If you&#8217;re a social networks geek, or a mathematician, physicist or computer scientist, you must check this out. Too funny. And there are even bids! Update: Now that i&#8217;ve learned a bit more about the history and state of this auction, i thought i&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}