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Although, really, it's kind of cheap popular science. But still! Popular EllJay Science!
What I propose to do is this: to make a meme, to track the spread of a meme.
The model I'm currently considering is posting the meme, and having people who repost the meme comment on my original post. They'd reply to the comment of the person who they took the meme from, and then they'd propagate it throughout all of LJ. Those of you who took it from here would, of course, comment on the post itself.
The problem I see with this methodology is, at its simplest, that there's very little payoff to doing the meme; they get to comment, and repost some instructions, but it's predisposed to only be done by those who have a degree of curiosity in the subject. Or, maybe, those who want to commentwhore on a post in a journal far, far away. (Plus, I'm not actually sure what I'd do with the data, except look at it and make interested noises)
Still, it would interest me to do so. This is my discussion post for it; I'm interested to see what you, my many-talented readership, think of this, this maaaadness. I'll field pretty much any comment - on the idea, on any possible value of the data gathered, on the proposed methodology, on the utter silliness of having though of it in the first place, and absolutely anything in between.
What I propose to do is this: to make a meme, to track the spread of a meme.
The model I'm currently considering is posting the meme, and having people who repost the meme comment on my original post. They'd reply to the comment of the person who they took the meme from, and then they'd propagate it throughout all of LJ. Those of you who took it from here would, of course, comment on the post itself.
The problem I see with this methodology is, at its simplest, that there's very little payoff to doing the meme; they get to comment, and repost some instructions, but it's predisposed to only be done by those who have a degree of curiosity in the subject. Or, maybe, those who want to commentwhore on a post in a journal far, far away. (Plus, I'm not actually sure what I'd do with the data, except look at it and make interested noises)
Still, it would interest me to do so. This is my discussion post for it; I'm interested to see what you, my many-talented readership, think of this, this maaaadness. I'll field pretty much any comment - on the idea, on any possible value of the data gathered, on the proposed methodology, on the utter silliness of having though of it in the first place, and absolutely anything in between.
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Date: 2007-02-18 07:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-18 01:21 pm (UTC)(Hmm, should I try to start it?)
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Date: 2007-02-18 01:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-18 05:20 pm (UTC)