hans.gerwitz

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) [Apparently http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2004/08/a_sonar_ping_of.html — HFG]. (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.redsugar.com/muse/archives/006871.html

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

(3) I posted this exper­iment at URL: http://phobia.com/

(4) I posted this on date (day/​month/​year): 13/​08/​2004

(5) I posted this at time (24 hour time): 11:07

(6) My posting location is (city, state, country): St Louis, Missouri, USA

OPTIONAL SURVEY FIELDS:

(7) My blog is hosted by: Envision, LLC

(8) My age is: 30

(9) My gender is: Male

(10) My occu­pation is: VP of Technology

(11) I use the following RSS/​Atom reader software: NetNewsWire Pro

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

(13) I have been blogging since (day, month, year): 14/​03/​2003

(14) My web browser is: Safari

(15) My oper­ating systems are: Mac OS X