The Tipping Blog
John Hiler,
Microcontent News,
Mar 14, 2003
Nice analysis of how a meme (that is, a catchy article or idea) posted in a weblog can spread like wildfire through the internet. It happens every day and it happens something like this:
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- An Expert (one might call her a Content Maven) Writes or Creates something interesting and puts it online (creating the critical component of any online ideavirus: the link)CRLF
- A Link Maven comes across the link, and blogs it to their siteCRLF
- A Connector finds the link and blogs it to their site (or the aforementioned Link Maven has Connector-like traffic levels)CRLF
- The link starts to Tip within the weblog communityCRLF
- The link Tips beyond the weblog community, as the rest of us find out about it."CRLF
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