Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!

Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!

This posting is a community experiment started by Minding the Planet to see how a meme represented by a 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 original posting for this experiment is located at: Minding the Planet; 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 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://marc.blogs.it/

(2) I didn't find this via email

(3) I posted this experiment at URL: http://radioweblogs.com/0107233/categories/thanks

(4) I posted this on date (day, month, year): 02/08/04

(5) I posted this at time (24 hour time): 14:01:00

(6) My posting location is (city, state, country): Washington DC, USA

OPTIONAL SURVEY FIELDS (Replace the answers below with your own answers):

(7) My blog is hosted by: Radioland at radioland.com

(8) My age is too old, even in dog years

(9) I don't believe in gender typing

(10) My occupation is: a hodgepodge of fun and unfun things

(11) I use the following RSS/Atom reader software: FeedDemon, Radioland rss reader

(12) I use the following software to post to my blog: Radioland

(13) I have been blogging since (day, month, year): not sure: 3 years maybe

(14) My web browser is: Opera, Firefox, Mozilla, IE 6 (in that order, by preference)

(15) My operating system is: Windows XP

[Minding the Planet]
(don't know if I did this right)

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The Memespread Project: | Voidstar - 'Cause now I'm living on meme power | David Harris' Science & Literature | Wired News: How the Word Gets Around | Wired News: How the Word Gets Around | Implicit Structure and the Dynamics of Blogspace | Information Diffusion Through Blogspace | Meme Tracker | health results by www.fragmentos. blogspace .net | health results by www.fragmentos. blogspace .net

Finally... Microsoft releases a Windows XP Security guide. I hope it covers the new services installed with XP's Service Pak 2, which I foolishly installed ... I have no idea why Dcom services are enabled...

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