EllJay Science the Second

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.

And now, another post.

Mmm, posts. Posts are fun. This one is out on its own mostly because I wanted to keep the other one focused on the nebulous and slippery subject of EllJay science.

shaysdays: your zero-gravity sex is In Progress. I have about six hundred-ish words so far, and everyone's still got their clothes on, but I'm pretty sure I know how it's going to go from here. The two biggest issues with writing it have been resolved, so all is good.

deepfishy: your story comes after that one. I have an outline somewhere, and my outline was shiny, and I'll find it and do stuff with it soon.

(Also, I may need to check and make sure I still have my Tales by Request post template.)

Those waiting for icons: I really will do it eventually. Seriously. I may find myself in a more icon-ish mood in a week or so, when I prod EllJay with moneystuffs to make them give my extra userpics back.

Um... undirected: My dictionary puzzles me sometimes. There's a headword for 'Kath', as a shortened form of 'Kathleen Mavourneen', which is apparently a colloquialism for a prison sentence. If someone would care to explain to me just how this works in a sensible universe, I'd happily welcome their expository ramblings.

And that's it for this post. Wheee.

Spammy.

But, really, I can't help it this time. If I had more subject matter, I could maybe do it - the draft UN treaty on dealing with Earth-endangering asteroids could just about do it, if I had (a) time and (b) an idea of what to do with the information - but that'd take away from my real point, which is having my current music on three consecutive posts be the same simply because it actually was the same. I have a vague notion to check my friends-of-friends page just to see how much EllJay it's possible for this song to span.

So, in summary, spammy. I blame Iron Butterfly. *hurries to click 'post' before the end of the song*