Helping a Social Media Experiment
November 30, 2006 by Howard Greenstein
“What’s the speed of a meme’s spread across the net?” asks Scott Eric Kaufman. (A meme, according to Wikipedia, refers to a unit of cultural information transferable from one mind to another.)
By posting this, Scott’s script will find this post and track how his initial post has spread. (I heard about this via the Uplift Academy mailing list, for the record.) Scott will be doing a panel on Blogs at a conference and wants to track the spread of a meme, and give some hard data on it.
We here at Social Media Club support anything that helps quantify and qualify the speed of information and the social spread of information.
So Scott, good luck and blog speed.
BTW, for the rest of us, what is MLA? There are way too many things named “MLA” that Google finds.
OMG. I was so happy to find out about your group. I am a social media/marketer living in a RED STATE. I travel for work but where I live (Midwest) when I talk about social media, they look at me as if I am crazed. I can participate via web/email and I travel to West Coast often. Thanks for taking the time to organize the social media club.