2004-03-06 00:17:32.02085+01 by Dan Lyke 4 comments
A lot of folks have been pointing to the Wired article about the Blog Epidemic Analyzer that purports to track link trends as they propagate:
The most-read webloggers aren't necessarily the ones with the most original ideas, say researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs.
Duh. What would be interesting is tracking more situations where mainstream media copies text verbatim from weblogs (Thanks, Lyn).
[ related topics: Weblogs Sociology Journalism and Media ]
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#Comment Re: made: 2004-03-06 01:23:57.090135+01 by: Shawn
This got me thinking: Based on the thousand monkeys![[Wiki]](/adbanners/lookingglass.png){kind=small}
claim, and taking into account the vast amounts of content/data that now exist across the Internet, is there actually a chance this could truly be a coincidence? (I don't think it's likely, just wondering out loud.)
#Comment Re: made: 2004-03-06 01:30:15.563303+01 by: Shawn
[meta] Is anybody else using/paying attention to the Wiki? I'm trying, but I find the page design too busy. I often lose (visually) the contributed content among the other text and elements. Dan, is this included in the Flutterby code, or is it separate? Maybe I can take a look at what's being output and submit something a bit more friendly. [/meta]
#Comment Re: made: 2004-03-06 20:00:22.827745+01 by: Dan Lyke
It's in the Flutterby code. If you've got a CVS checkout, it's the file in flutterby_cms/html/wiki.html, although if you just wanna mung the output HTML I'd be happy to stuff the queries back in to whatever you come up with.
#Comment Re: made: 2004-03-08 16:43:51.047811+01 by: Shawn
I'll try to poke around with this a little later in the week.
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