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August 2, 2004

Annoyed by Spivak's Meme Propagation Test

Nova Spivak has injected a meme propagation test into the blogosphere. Call me a contrarian, but I am annoyed. For one, I don't look forward to sifting though endless instances of this nasty meme over the next few days.

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I strongly agree with many of Nova Spivak's ideas, but meme propagation tests such as this one are just plain silly. Certainly meme "instance data" for any given number of subjects could be had (and the propagation effect investigated) without encouraging thousands of people to post (and format their post) in a herd-like manner.

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