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November 29, 2006

Science Meets the Blogosphere

Scott Kaufman of Acephalous is attempting to measure the speed of a meme with a participatory experiment. His intent is to see how quickly his post will spread and how it spreads: do big-traffic sites drive the speed of a meme's growth, or does it bubble under before appearing on a major site. So, if you are a blogger reading this and would like to participate (and Scott would greatly appreciate it; granted, since the odds are you don't know Scott, that probably doesn't matter to you), just link to his post and help him measure the blogosphere. Because it's for science, and if that doesn't move you, I don't know what will.

Hat tip: Crooked Timber.


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Posted at November 29, 2006 11:58 AM

Andrew Olmsted

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