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<title>Small World</title><biblioid class="uri">http://norman.walsh.name/2005/12/11/smallWorld</biblioid>
<volumenum>8</volumenum>
<issuenum>160</issuenum>
<pubdate>2005-12-11T15:25:53-05:00</pubdate>
<date>$Date: 2005-12-11 22:15:39 -0500 (Sun, 11 Dec 2005) $</date>
<author>
      <personname>
<firstname>Norman</firstname>
	<surname>Walsh</surname>
</personname>
    </author>
<copyright>
      <year>2005</year>
      <holder>Norman Walsh</holder>
    </copyright>
<abstract>
<para>Real world news, by way of Flickr.</para>
</abstract>
<dc:subject rdf:resource="http://norman.walsh.name/knows/taxonomy#Connectivity"/>
<dc:subject rdf:resource="http://norman.walsh.name/knows/taxonomy#TheWeb"/>
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<epigraph>
<attribution>
      <personname>
<firstname>Peter</firstname>
	<surname>Russell</surname>
</personname>
    </attribution>
<para xml:id="p2">Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each
idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is
connected to numerous other points in the mental network.</para>
</epigraph>

<para xml:id="p1">Although I have nothing really to add, it seems like
something would be lost if I failed to mention these circumstances.</para>

<para xml:id="p3">From <link xlink:href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndw/72165249/">my
image</link>, I'm lead to <personname>
      <firstname>Paul</firstname>
<surname role="suppress">Downey</surname>
    </personname>’s
<link xlink:href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/72486814/in/photostream/">image</link> (by way of his invite to join the
<link xlink:href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/61175565@N00/pool/">Textorized</link>
pool).
From that image, by simple proximity in
<link xlink:href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/">his photostream</link>, to a
<link xlink:href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/72440450/in/photostream/">View
East</link>. And from there, to the
<link xlink:href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/buncefield-fuel-depot-explosion/pool/">Fuel Depot Explosion</link>
pool. And finally, by way of search, to the story.</para>

<para xml:id="p4">Thus are events half a world away brought to my attention. Because
we're all connected.</para>

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