{"id":1292,"date":"2007-12-08T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2013-05-04T01:44:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T01:44:28","slug":"how-widespread-is-the-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isplotchy.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/how-widespread-is-the-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"How Widespread Is The Infection?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How widespread is the infection of the story virus<\/a>?<\/p>\n

It has definitely gone farther than I thought it would. <\/p>\n

I wish I was a scientist, a statistician, adept at graphic arts, something, so I can say something other than, “Wow! It’s pretty cool how it’s spreading!”.<\/p>\n

It was interesting when it first started, in that some people were tagged multiple times by different story threads, probably due to the blogominisphere I travel in. There are a relatively small number of people that read my blog and whose blogs I read, so it’s not a surprise we sometimes tagged each other more than once. But now, the virus has definitely leapt out of that blogominisphere and into other blogominispheres, one’s I have never been exposed to.<\/p>\n

This seems to be a pretty robust meme. When someone gets tagged and then contributes a piece of story to a particular thread, the contributor has a self-interest in propagating the story with their addition — and they want to see it thrive. In some ways, this meme really does function as a virus, as an organism that seeks to propagate itself.<\/p>\n

Again, I wish I was a scientist or something, I’d probably have a lot cooler things to say, and more interesting parallels to draw.<\/p>\n

I’m going to try my best to graphically represent how the various threads have traveled thus far, but if the virus continues to spread, it might be difficult.<\/p>\n

If anyone has any recommendations as to how to represent the story virus (I was thinking of a family tree kinda diagram), please recommend one.<\/p>\n

Thanks to everyone who has been infected. I’m making an effort to follow all the strains!<\/p>\n

P.S. I think in coining the term “blogominisphere” I believe I have ratcheted up the obnoxiousness of the word “blog”, something I did not think was possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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