How News Travels on the Internet

March 10, 2004 10:28 AM

How News Travels on the Internet; Source -> Meta News -> MiFi - shorthand for MetaFilter, blogging on crack (all users can post?). Not accepting accounts. Currently #8 on DayPop top 40.
posted by thomcatspike to MetaFilter-related at 10:28 AM (24 comments total)

Not sure what happened to my tags, "Source -> Meta News -> MiFi - shorthand for MetaFilter, blogging on crack (all users can post?). Not accepting accounts."
posted by thomcatspike at 10:29 AM on March 10, 2004

I don't think that graph is accurate. I'm sure there are plenty of stories that don't require 'big' online media to act as a conduit to being picked up by traditional big media. There have been a number of threads in the past that show big media picking up stories that have clearly come straight off MeFi. I suppose one problem is that the distinction between big online and big traditional can be blurry. Eg, guardian stories are both, BBC will often have similar stories in many different media.
posted by biffa at 10:47 AM on March 10, 2004

Metafilter, blogging on crack (all users can post?).

All crack users can post? It's all starting to fall into place ;-)
posted by carter at 11:06 AM on March 10, 2004

All posters use crack?
posted by matteo at 11:14 AM on March 10, 2004

Not necessarily, but I think if you are on crack, you can post (so it says). It's a syllogism:

All crack users can post on MeFi.
Socrates uses crack.
Therefore Socrates can post on MeFi.
posted by carter at 11:24 AM on March 10, 2004

Damn, Daypop top 40 is actually up and working? Now, that's news.
posted by soyjoy at 11:42 AM on March 10, 2004

So where's my share of the crack?
posted by dg at 1:52 PM on March 10, 2004

Socrates does not use crack--he's a tweaker.

So, tell me, O Hypokrites, is it not true blah blah blah....
posted by y2karl at 2:30 PM on March 10, 2004

Hehe.
That whole page was pretty funny. While it's entirely possible Glenn Reynolds has the most read blog on the internet, I doubt the majority of people out there have much respect for the memes he generates. In fact, I'm quite sure that diagram has equal ability to work exactly the other way around. Big media has a story, bloggers take it and tear it to shreds, the shrapnel ends up ricocheting through email and IM.

How did he know about the crack, though?
posted by Jimbob at 2:42 PM on March 10, 2004

Socrates does not use crack--he's a tweaker.

You're both wrong:

Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.
posted by Danelope at 3:06 PM on March 10, 2004

Metafilter: I don't want to catch anybody not drinking.
posted by Jimbob at 3:11 PM on March 10, 2004

Therefore Socrates can post on MeFi.

He can, but does he? No. With his incredibly low user number and devastating battery of rhetorical techniques, he just sits in his cave and sulks. I can't make out whether he thinks we've become a lefty echo chamber or a Fark clone. But I said it, I meant it, I'm here to represent it:

I MISS SOCRATES!
posted by languagehat at 5:10 PM on March 10, 2004

I say we ban socrates, he's corrupting the youth.
posted by fvw at 5:20 PM on March 10, 2004

I'm sure if we ask him he'll leave voluntarily.
posted by amery at 5:24 PM on March 10, 2004

FREE QUONSAR SOCRATES!
posted by homunculus at 5:30 PM on March 10, 2004

Fuck Socrates. Little bitch. If I see him again and he doesn't have the calf and two loaves he owes me, I'm gonna PIKE that mother fucker.
posted by eyeballkid at 6:02 PM on March 10, 2004

Socrates doesn't give two shits how biased his FPP is.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:44 PM on March 10, 2004

Socrates always posts drunk.

Once.
posted by ook at 9:58 PM on March 10, 2004

I'd just like to take this opportunity to say that I despise the term "Dark Matter" being applied to, well, everything that's not a blog. Back in the Good Old Days, we used to just call that the "Internet". Goddamn kids.
posted by majcher at 10:52 PM on March 10, 2004

This "Inter-net" you speak of, it sounds fascinating. Tell me more.
posted by arto at 3:21 AM on March 11, 2004

if i ever see socrates again i'm gonna punch him for asking so many damn questions...
posted by joedan at 3:37 AM on March 11, 2004

sonofabitch still owes me a cock.
posted by asclepius at 7:29 AM PST on March 11
posted by soyjoy at 7:47 AM on March 11, 2004

Free socrates, one with every purchase?
posted by fvw at 12:25 AM on March 12, 2004

Socrates: Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

Ted: All we are is dust in the wind, dude.
posted by muckster at 1:14 AM on March 14, 2004