Tag Archives: memes

Tuning Folksonomies

By Michael Feldstein | Published: January 31, 2005
A while back, I posted an idea for checking to see the degree to which two differently named memes overlap in content. Looking back, what I was really talking about was tuning a folksonomy. What we really want is a way to see how much overlap there is between two tags so that we can [...]
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WordPress Related Entries plugin

By Michael Feldstein | Published: September 5, 2004
A while back I hinted to the hackers in the crowd that I would love to have a tool for aggregating the posts related to a particular meme on my site. Well, it looks like somebody did it. Unfortunately, it was for the wrong blog tool. D’Arcy Norman called my attention to this WordPress plug-in that [...]
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Tracking Memes in the Wild, Part III

By Michael Feldstein | Published: August 31, 2004
In my last two posts, I wrote about the limitations of one method for tracking memes and the promise of second method. That latter method, in brief, was to tag each meme-containing post with a unique text string that could enable you to use a search engine as an aggregator. But how can this be [...]
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Tracking Memes in the Wild, Part II

By Michael Feldstein | Published: August 31, 2004
In my last post I talked about a meme tracking experiment and bemoaned the fact that it provided no way to track arbitrary memes in the wild. Luckily, an e-Literate reader put me on the track to a workable idea in his comment on a previous post. Martin Terre Blanche points us to a post on [...]
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Tracking Memes in the Wild, Part I

By Michael Feldstein | Published: August 31, 2004
The other day, I ran into this post on the Contentious weblog which, in turn, led me to this longer post about an experiment conducted by a PhD student. Basically, he created a survey that he asked people to fill out, post to their blogs, and then pass on, like chain email. He wanted to [...]
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