Memespread Project

Wired News has written an article on Sam Arbesman's Memespread Project. He submitted his project's link to several popular blogs on April 7. One of them, kottke.org picked it up and the project took off. Here's Arbesman's definition of the project:

What is the Memespread Project? I am conducting an experiment about the spread of memes and information flow on the Internet. By analyzing where a link has been injected into the blogspace and then watching the ensuing hits to that site, the temporal and spatial spread of this piece of information can be measured.

The project is now finished and results are being analysed.

Posted by Tom on May 07, 2004