Dave’s Rants

This posting is a community experiment started by Minding the Planet
to see how a meme represented by a 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 original posting for this experiment is
located at: Minding the Planet; 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:
as098398298250swg9e98929872525389t9987898tq98wteqtgaq62010920352598gawstw98qwrt189849813907azq4
(this GUID enables anyone to easily search Google for all results of
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 at Minding the Planet;
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 fill out the info below, substituting your own
information in your posting, where appropriate.

Required Fields

(Note: Replace the answers below with your own answers)

1. I found this experiment at URL: http://neilturner.me.uk/
2. I found it via “Newsreader Software” or “Browsing or Searching the Web” or “An E-Mail Message”: Newsreader (Feed On Feeds)
3. I posted this experiment at URL: http://davesrants.com/
4. I posted this on date (day, month, year): 02 August 2004
5. I posted this at time (24 hour time): 11:45:00
6. My posting location is (city, state, country): Cork City, Cork, Ireland

Optional Survey Fields

(Replace the answers below with your own answers):

1. My blog is hosted by: Hosting365
2. My age is: 21
3. My gender is: Male
4. My occupation is: Full-time student
5. I use the following RSS/Atom reader software: Feed On Feeds
6. I use the following software to post to my blog: Movable Type 2.661, various plugins
7. I have been blogging since (day, month, year): Monday, May 07, 2001
8. My web browser is: Firefox 0.9.1+ (20040730)