Been beaten
Damn, Daypop was quicker than me
From Daypop’s Shortly after putting up the Top 40, I realized there
were plenty of memes that make the rounds that weren’t accompanied
by links. Either the meme was a topic of conversation that had no
link, or it was a meme that had no single, authoritative link.
Catching heightened word usage is a natural extension to the Top
40. I kept the idea on the back burner until very recently, when I
realized Joe Millionaire was the buzz, but there were no
authoritative links to anchor the meme. There was the one link to
the Joe Millionaire site but few bloggers linked to it when writing
about the show (in spite of this, that link still made the Top 40).
I went to sleep that night thinking about implementing what
everyone now calls Word Bursts. The next morning (can you believe
it?) I get emails about the article in New Scientist about Word
Bursts. I also read it in Slashdot and it eventually makes the Top
40. Well, that got me working this weekend on this: Daypop Top Word
Bursts It’s catching topics that don’t have authoritative links. It
also catches those that do. There are sample posts from weblogs so
that you can get a decent idea of what the word burst is in
relation to.
Nicely done!
