Spread the meme (better late than never).

SPREAD THE MEME!



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).

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 [1])
--- 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
(shortened, by popular demand) GUID for this experiment is:
as098398298250swg9e98929872525389t9     (this 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). 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.tnl.net/blog/entry/Testing_Meme_Propagation_In_Blogspace:_Add_Your_Blog [2]!


(2) I found it via "Newsreader Software" or "Browsing the Web" or
"Searching the Web" or "An E-Mail Message": Reading a friend's (Tristan Louis) blog

(3) I posted this experiment at URL: http://blog.deanland.com/?page_id=394 [3]

(4) I posted this on date (day/month/year):  21 Dec 2004

(5) I posted this at time (24 hour time): 01:56:00

(6) My posting location is (city, state, country): Suffern, NY, USA

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

(7) My blog is hosted by: Workbench [4] via Rogers Cadenhead [5]
who came to the fore and saved the day back last Summer when
weblogs.com was shut down all of a sudden with no notice one day. 
Rogers gets kudos for this open effort, which he does out of the goodness of his heart.  A fine netizen is he.

(8) My age is: 52 (for a little while longer, as of this writing)

(9) My gender is: Male

(10) My occupation is: Distributed Communications & Marketing Entrepreneur, Media Specialist, Blogger, Change Agent.

(11)
I use the following RSS/Atom reader software: FeedDemon, Bloglines and
whichever other one I decide to try at any given time.

(12) I use the following software to post to my blog: Manila, Radio, Cute News, EditPlus

(13)
I have been blogging since (day, month, year): Sometime in 1999 (exact
date unknown, the first blog faded into the cosmos a long time ago) DeanLand [6] began sometime in December of 2000, an outgrowth of a few other stabs at blogging, and the urging of Doc Searls [7]
that I start and maintain a blog -- that conversation due to my rant
about Sony, and Doc's sage advice that such discussion should be in a
public space.

(14) My web browser is: Firefox and/or Mozilla

(15) My operating system is: Windows XP