More stuff on my planet: blogs from Hallski, Eric Baudais and Rosanna Yuen, and Pika’s RSS feed is fixed (which is to say that my boneheaded error is fixed, seems her feed was actually probably working the whole time). And I removed the hurricane warnings. They were truly a bit much.
Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!
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 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) — 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 GUID for this experiment is: as098398298250swg9e98929872525389t9987898tq98wteqtgaq62010920352598gawst (this GUID enables anyone to easily search Google (or Technorati) for all blogs that participate in this experiment). 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://pharyngula.org/
(2) I found it via “Newsreader Software” or “Browsing the Web” or “Searching the Web” or “An E-Mail Message”: “Browsing the Web”
(3) I posted this experiment at URL: https://www.inkstain.net/fleck/
(4) I posted this on date (day, month, year): 03/08/04
(5) I posted this at time (24 hour time): 12:29:00
(6) My posting location is (city, state, country): Albuquerque, NM, USA
OPTIONAL SURVEY FIELDS (Replace the answers below with your own answers):
(7) My blog is hosted by: Southwest Cyberport
(8) My age is: 45
(9) My gender is: Male
(10) My occupation is: Journalist
(11) I use the following RSS/Atom reader software:
(12) I use the following software to post to my blog: Movable Type
(13) I have been blogging since (day, month, year): 19/03/2001
(14) My web browser is: Firebird
(15) My operating system is: Linux
Welcoming Alex
The first tropical storm of the seasoon is rolling up the U.S. east coast, one of those shore-skimmers.
“Everything is big….”
Hey you Americans in the audience, listen to the words of our discombobulated Aussie visitor:
Everything is big – if not in size, then in volume or sheer in-your-face-ness. The cars are huge, though you could scarcely describe them as cars. The television in my hotel room is almost twice the size of our TV at home. The convenience store is a kidney-punch of choice and product.
If it’s any consolation, Jeff, we went with the small TV.
A Day of Firsts
So I guess I wasn’t really a geek until today.
I set up a Paypal account.
I made my first Ebay purchase.
All for a Gmail account, which seems like a promising toy. “jfleck” was already gone, so I got “jrfleck”. Drop me a line. I’ll archive it forever.
Planet Fleck
Thanks to the fine work of Jeff Waugh and his Planet buddies, I’ve now got my own aggregator running on Inkstain – Planet Fleck. Some minor hacking of the python was required on account of the odd way I’m using the SWCP server farm. Now if Telsa would make an RSS feed, and Pika would fix hers….
More Balloons!
No confetti. All right, go balloons, go balloons. We need more balloons. All balloons! All balloons! Keep going! Come on, guys, lets move it. Jesus! We need more balloons. I want all balloons to go, goddammit. Go confetti. Go confetti. More confetti. I want more balloons. What’s happening to the balloons? We need more balloons.
Prometheus
Added Prometheus to my blogroll. It’s a science policy blog out of the University of Colorado which is provocative on pretty much a daily basis.
Reconnecting
I’d rather lost touch with Dan York’s blog, and was happy to find its latest incarnation.
Over on Advogato, he’s got an interesting discussion of the way the technologies available for distribution influence the content and pacing of his postings.
Language Differences
It’s easy to forget sometimes that English is a very different language than American:
“The great British faggot is full of flavour and a great belly warmer at this time of year.”