Here’s an interesting idea. Scott Eric Kaufman is trying to measure how quickly memes spread through the Internet. He’s looking to see whether memes can spread quickly simply because of the volume of blogs out there, or whether they only do so if they are mentioned by a high profile blog. Kaufman favors the latter explanation, as do I. But you don’t know until you run the experiment.

You can help here. Spread the meme. Write your own blog post linking to Kaufman’s original post.

The potential flaw here is that Kaufman can only measure blogs that are registered on Technorati, and vast numbers of blogs (particularly LiveJournals) are not. But hey, no science is perfect, and this is at least an interesting start.

Oh, and just to prove that high profile blogs work, I got news of this from Crooked Timber.