I don't usually post "memes"
I don't usually post "memes" -- indeed, I'm not convinced they are a Good Thing. But this one is interesting, and SB is influential, so:
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 results of 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 at Minding the Planet; 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 fill out the info below, substituting your own
information in your posting, where appropriate.
Required Fields
(Note: Replace the answers below with your own answers)
1. I found this experiment at URL: http://www.sbpoet.com
2. I found it via: one of my regular reads, linked via BlogRolling
3. I posted this experiment at URL: http://www.vividpieces.net
4. I posted this on date (day, month, year): 03 August 02004
5. I posted this at time (24 hour time): 11:20:00
6. My posting location is (city, state, country): Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Optional Survey Fields
(Replace the answers below with your own answers):
1. My blog is hosted by: Myself
2. My age is: 31
3. My gender is: Female
4. My occupation is: Freelance Writer/Editor, Poet at Large
5. I use the following RSS/Atom reader software: None
6. I use the following software to post to my blog: Moveable Type
7. I have been blogging since (day, month, year): 26 June 02002
8. My web browser is: Camino (for the Mac)
2 Comments
Thanks, Erin — I think — why are memes maybe “not a Good Thing”? I confess to being unsure myself, when I saw it — but did think it might be an opportunity to bring more attention to women in the blogosphere. “Spreading memes” does sound a bit sinister, I admit.
This one is cool. Reminds me of the way-neat six-degrees project.
But maybe quizzes that tell you which of the Muses or Gods or Elementary Particles or Medieval Humours you are are sort of the junk mail of the blogsphere? Or … the small talk? I have mixed feelings about them. It’s sort of fun to know that my blog is INTP and I am the Second Season of Buffy and the Top Quark. But so far I’ve resisted telling other people. I dunno why. A bandwidth thing, I think.