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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:
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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