http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/29/the-mla-meme/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 27 May 2012 00:43:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/29/the-mla-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-181018 Crooked Timber » » Son of “The MLA Meme.” Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:56:11 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/29/the-mla-meme/#comment-181018 [...] That sure didn’t take long….Word of Scott Eric Kaufman’s meme experiment has reached Wired News, which just ran a story on it. Well, sort of a story. It manages to avoid discussing what Kaufman was actually trying to do. Seems like the kind of factual point you’d want to nail down. The Wired reporter notes that something akin to this experiment has been done before. (No surprise there. The whole idea has a kind of “Intro to Statistical Methods” practicum quality to it.) A couple of years ago, a researcher found that his “test meme” did indeed propagate widely and wildly across the digital landscape, like so many rabbits in some predator-free and lettuce-rich wilderness. [...] [...] That sure didn’t take long….Word of Scott Eric Kaufman’s meme experiment has reached Wired News, which just ran a story on it. Well, sort of a story. It manages to avoid discussing what Kaufman was actually trying to do. Seems like the kind of factual point you’d want to nail down. The Wired reporter notes that something akin to this experiment has been done before. (No surprise there. The whole idea has a kind of “Intro to Statistical Methods” practicum quality to it.) A couple of years ago, a researcher found that his “test meme” did indeed propagate widely and wildly across the digital landscape, like so many rabbits in some predator-free and lettuce-rich wilderness. [...]

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/29/the-mla-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-180993 Brian Downey Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:56:33 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/29/the-mla-meme/#comment-180993 <em>Blogal Landscape?</em> Now you're just making stuff up. Blogal Landscape? Now you’re just making stuff up.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/29/the-mla-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-180851 Siva Vaidhyanathan Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:11:31 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/29/the-mla-meme/#comment-180851 There is no such thing as a "meme." There is no such thing as a “meme.”

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/29/the-mla-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-180657 Scott Eric Kaufman Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:09:24 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/29/the-mla-meme/#comment-180657 nnyhav, you're a saint. nnyhav, you’re a saint.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/29/the-mla-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-180632 nnyhav Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:07:16 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/29/the-mla-meme/#comment-180632 <a href="http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611622" rel="nofollow">Clusterwhat?</a> Clusterwhat?

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/29/the-mla-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-180623 Cheryl’s Mewsings » Blog Archive » Measuring Memes Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:59:50 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/29/the-mla-meme/#comment-180623 [...] Oh, and just to prove that high profile blogs work, I got news of this from Crooked Timber. [...] [...] Oh, and just to prove that high profile blogs work, I got news of this from Crooked Timber. [...]

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/29/the-mla-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-180613 Dan Simon Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:08:33 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/29/the-mla-meme/#comment-180613 Far more people read my comments on other people's blogs than read my actual blog. So here's a <a href="http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2006/11/measuring_the_s.html#trackback" rel="nofollow">link</a> to an interesting experiment... Far more people read my comments on other people’s blogs than read my actual blog. So here’s a link to an interesting experiment…

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/29/the-mla-meme/comment-page-1/#comment-180607 tps12 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:58:01 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/11/29/the-mla-meme/#comment-180607 Which poorly designed MLA experiment am I? Which poorly designed MLA experiment am I?

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