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 (and aggregation sites) 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).

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

The above GUID enables anyone to easily search Google or other search engines for all blogs that participate in this experiment, once they have indexed the sites that participate, which may take several days or weeks. To locate the full data set, just search for any sites that contain this GUID.

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://rocketjones.mu.nu/

(Well, that's the third time I've seen it, but anyway.)

(2) I found it via “Newsreader Software” or “Browsing the Web” or “Searching the Web” or “An E-Mail Message”: Browsing the Web

(3) I posted this experiment at URL: http://ambientirony.mu.nu/

(4) I posted this on date (day/month/year): 10/08/04

(5) I posted this at time (24 hour time): 21:21

(6) My posting location is (city, state, country): Sydney, NSW, Australia

OPTIONAL SURVEY FIELDS:

(7) My blog is hosted by: Meeee!

( My age is: 37

(9) My gender is: Male

(10) My occupation is: Computer Consultant

(Thanks Ted! Half the answers don't even need editing!)
(11) I use the following RSS/Atom reader software: none

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

(13) I have been blogging since (day, month, year): 14/04/2003

(14) My web browser is: Mozilla

(15) My operating systems are: Fedora Linux and some Microsoft thingy

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:24 AM | No Comments | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 516 words, total size 3 kb.

Christ almighty, what is it with you people? You’ve spent a couple of years asking why we didn’t prevent 9/11, calling for an investigation, asking ‘how much did Bush know and when did he know it?’ You blamed us for something we failed to prevent after eight months in office, and yet to this day you give the Clinton admin a free pass, even though he had eight years—eight fucking years, people—to do something about al Qaeda and didn’t do one goddamned thing.

You finally get your investigation, the results of which confirm most of what we’d been saying all along, but you don’t want to hear that any more than you wanted to hear about the fact that one of the Democrat commissioners, Jamie Gorelick, was responsible for the so-called “wall of separation” prohibiting information-sharing between the FBI and CIA, which nearly everyone now acknowledges was one of the biggest problems preventing any effective defense against terrorist networks. You do deign to acknowledge that problem, but the part you originally claimed to be most interested in—who was responsible—is suddenly not so interesting anymore the moment you realized you couldn’t reasonably blame us for it.

You insist that Condi and Bush must testify publicly to the commission (even though Condi had already testified once), but it doesn’t seem to bother you when Clinton gets to testify behind closed doors. You laud Richard Clarke’s and Joe Wilson’s credibility, but when it’s clearly shown that they’re liars you don’t seem to want to bring it up anymore. You hint at all sorts of sinister skullduggery on our part, but when Sandy Berger openly admits to stealing classified documents for God only knows what reason, you couldn’t care less.

Ladies and gentleman, I give you Michael Gene Hendrix and Cold Fury. No finer place to get your mellow harshed.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 09:12 AM | Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 339 words, total size 2 kb.

Bleah.

Meanwhile, barbecue at Susie's place!

* Burn your own posts.
** Something always breaks.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:51 AM | No Comments | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 51 words, total size 1 kb.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 01:09 AM | No Comments | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 8 words, total size 1 kb.

With the introduction...

Update: Right on the money, 6000 words of introduction. Time for lunch.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 10:10 PM | No Comments | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 59 words, total size 1 kb.

As I said before, I didn't set out to write a book, but it's all necessary background for presenting my thesis. I mean, I can state my thesis in five words, but while that will cause a certain amount of grave nodding of heads, it won't convince anyone who isn't already convinced, and worse, it doesn't tell you how to fix the problem.

Well, 4200 down, probably about 6000 to go. La la la...

I could write a book about this. Unlike my idea for The Politics of Sense and Nonsense, this one is stuff I mostly sort of know, and I could do the research as I went along. Anyone looking for a 60,000 to 70,000 word book called On the Epistemological Foundations of 21st Century Political Structure?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:11 PM | No Comments | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 183 words, total size 1 kb.

* And yes, it will be a man.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 01:12 AM | Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 54 words, total size 1 kb.

• Why the French, who individually are often perfectly nice people, have collectively given the world... France.


• Why lefty protestors have dirty hair.


• Why the Great American Democratic hope is none of the above.


• Why the 20th century was what it was.


• Why we are here, and where we are going.


• And, last but not least, how to explain your viewpoint to followers of Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky.*

* The philosophical methodologies described in the article may be illegal outside of Texas. Check local statutes before applying.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 09:23 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 125 words, total size 1 kb.

If possible, shoot scriptwriter and segment producer while attempting to escape.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:50 AM | No Comments | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 25 words, total size 1 kb.

Well, no. Duh. Shame is what happens to other people.

(Warning: The picture that the link takes you to is pretty offensive. Poorly-executed Hieronymous Bosch-as-leftist-propaganda sort of thing.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 08:13 AM | Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 43 words, total size 1 kb.