• Aug 3, 2004

  Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!

  This posting is a community experiment started by Minding the Planet to see how a meme represented by a blog posting spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs are most influential in the propagation of memes. The original posting for this experiment is located at: Minding the Planet; results and commentary will appear there in the future.

  Please join the test by adding your blog (see instructions, below) and inviting your friends to participate — the more the better. The data from this test will be public and open; others may use it to visualize and study the connectedness of blogspace and the propagation of memes across blogs.

  The GUID for this experiment is: as098398298250swg9e98929872525389t9987898tq98wteqtgaq62010920352598gawst (this GUID enables anyone to easily search Google for all results of this experiment). Anyone is free to analyze the data of this experiment. Please publicize your analysis of the data, and/or any comments by adding comments onto the original post at Minding the Planet; Note: it would be interesting to see a geographic map or a temporal animation, as well as a social network map of the propagation of this meme.

  Instructions

  To add your blog to this experiment, copy this entire posting to
  your blog, and fill out the info below, substituting your own
  information in your posting, where appropriate.

  Required Fields

  (Note: Replace the answers below with your own answers)

  1. I found this experiment at URL: http://www.nocertainty.com/
  2. I found it via "Newsreader Software" or "Browsing or Searching the
     Web" or "An E-Mail Message": Newsreader (Bloglines
  3. I posted this experiment at URL: https://chuyeow.wtf/
  4. I posted this on date (day, month, year): 03 August 2004
  5. I posted this at time (24 hour time): 02:05:00
  6. My posting location is (city, state, country): Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

  Optional Survey Fields

  (Replace the answers below with your own answers):

  1. My blog is hosted by: Myself
  2. My age is: 24
  3. My gender is: Male
  4. My occupation is: Webmaster
  5. I use the following RSS/Atom reader software: Bloglines, Mozilla Thunderbird
  6. I use the following software to post to my blog: Movable Type
  7. I have been blogging since (day, month, year): 24 May 2003
  8. My web browser is: Firefox

  There it is, my very first participation in a meme.

• Aug 1, 2004

  Chee Aun has a good eye for UI bugs

  Chee Aun, author of the Phoenity theme, spotted several minor bugs in Firefox while working on a new version of Phoenity.

  The things he finds are just amazing and come complete with bugfixes (where applicable). This guy should be in there fixing and improving the Firefox UI.

• Aug 1, 2004

  From the creators of South Park!

  Matt and Trey have a new movie coming up! It's called Team America and will be in theatres in October. Kick ass!

  Check out the Team America trailer (requires the Quicktime plugin).

• Aug 1, 2004

  RSS integration enabled in yesterday's Thunderbird nightly builds

  Yup it is here - bug 253490 - Turn on the new RSS extensions and add it to the installer.

  It isn't completely working yet, but it is ready for testing. Works very much like the Forumzilla extension. It even displays the webpage in full as specified in the <link> tags in the RSS feed like Forumzilla does, which isn't ideal. Atom feeds work fine though - only the <content> is shown in plain text format.

  Well, on to the screenshots. I'm not in the mood for too much writing today.
  
  Creating a new RSS account:

  

  
  

  Management pane for an RSS account:

  

  
  

  RSS account options:

  

  
  

  RSS feed management dialog:

  

  
  

  Adding a new RSS feed:

  

  
  

  Message pane listing items in a RSS feed:

  

  
  

  Grab the latest Thunderbird nightly build for some first-hand action.

• Jul 30, 2004

  A label for unread emails in Gmail

  This is a pretty nifty Gmail trick (via TIMELINE via gmailwiki): create a label named "Unread" and Gmail automatically lists all unread email when you call up that label.

  

  
  

  Seems very much like a half-hearted, half-implemented feature that Google hasn't decided whether to give to users. I for one would very much like to have a standard section for unread mail ("standard" meaning it goes into the same place as Starred, All Mail and co.).

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