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Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Oddities

Test­ing Meme Prop­a­ga­tion In Blog­space: Add Your Blog!

This post­ing is a com­mu­nity exper­i­ment that tests how a meme, rep­re­sented by this blog post­ing, spreads across blog­space, phys­i­cal space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are con­nected. It may also help to show which blogs are most influ­en­tial in the prop­a­ga­tion of memes. The dataset from this exper­i­ment will be pub­lic, and can be located via Google (or Tech­no­rati) by doing a search for the GUID for this meme (below).

The orig­i­nal post­ing for this exper­i­ment is located at: Mind­ing the Planet (Perma­link: http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2004/08/a_sonar_ping_of.html) —- results and com­men­tary will appear there in the future.

Please join the test by adding your blog (see instruc­tions, below) and invit­ing your friends to par­tic­i­pate — the more the bet­ter. The data from this test will be pub­lic and open; oth­ers may use it to visu­al­ize and study the con­nect­ed­ness of blog­space and the prop­a­ga­tion of memes across blogs.

The GUID for this exper­i­ment is: as098398298250swg9e98929872525389t9987898tq98wteqtgaq62010920352598gawst (this GUID enables any­one to eas­ily search Google (or Tech­no­rati) for all blogs that par­tic­i­pate in this exper­i­ment). Any­one is free to ana­lyze the data of this exper­i­ment. Please pub­li­cize your analy­sis of the data, and/or any com­ments by adding com­ments onto the orig­i­nal post (see URL above). (Note: it would be inter­est­ing to see a geo­graphic map or a tem­po­ral ani­ma­tion, as well as a social net­work map of the prop­a­ga­tion of this meme.)
INSTRUCTIONS

To add your blog to this exper­i­ment, copy this entire post­ing to your blog, and then answer the ques­tions below, sub­sti­tut­ing your own infor­ma­tion, below, where appro­pri­ate. Other than answer­ing the ques­tions below, please do not alter the infor­ma­tion, lay­out or for­mat of this post in order to pre­serve the integrity of the data in this exper­i­ment (this will make it eas­ier for searchers and auto­mated bots to find and ana­lyze the results later).

REQUIRED FIELDS (Note: Replace the answers below with your own answers)

(1) I found this exper­i­ment at URL:

http://www.differentsky.com/

(2) I did not found it via a News­reader Soft­ware (name of News­reader Soft­ware)
(3) I posted this exper­i­ment at URL: http://www.coffeebear.net/index.php?p=109
(4) I posted this on date (day, month, year): 08/08/04
(5) I posted this at time (24 hour time): 21:56:49 (GMT:-06:00, USA/Central)
(6) My post­ing loca­tion is (city, state, coun­try): Coralville, Iowa, United States of America

OPTIONAL SURVEY FIELDS (Replace the answers below with your own answers):
(7) My blog is hosted by: Word­Press
(8) My age is: 28
(9) My gen­der is: Male
(10) My occu­pa­tion is: Soft­ware Tester
(11) I use the fol­low­ing RSS/Atom reader soft­ware: Sage Exten­sion for Fire­Fox
(12) I use the fol­low­ing soft­ware to post to my blog: Word­Press
(13) I have been blog­ging since (day, month, year): 11/03/04
(14) My web browser is: Fire­fox
(15) My oper­at­ing sys­tem is: SuSE Linux Pro 9.0

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