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  <title>Comments for buzzing at yahoo</title>
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    <published>2001-04-17T04:24:10Z</published>
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    <title>buzzing at yahoo</title>
    <summary><![CDATA[If you look at the &quot;buzz&quot; section on my portal, you can see that I like to check up on what's popular on the web....]]></summary>
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      <name>Anil</name>
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      <![CDATA[<p>If you look at the &quot;buzz&quot; section on my <a href="http://www.dashes.com/portal/" title="where to go">portal</a>, you can see that I like to check up on what's popular on the web. The only link on there that I regularly check is <a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/mt/us/dailynews/?u" title="popularity contest">Yahoo's Most Popular page</a>, and I've been able to tell from following the subjects or links of <a href="http://www.kottke.org/notes/0104.html#010412" title="popularity contest winner">other people's blogs</a> that I'm not the only one. <a href="http://a.wholelottanothing.org/archived.blah/4/01/2001/#532" title="Haughey Gonna Get Famous">Rock Star</a> used his extensive study of the genre to create what he insists will become <a href="http://a.wholelottanothing.org/junkdrawer/yahoo.jpg" title="Breasts? Check. Kitten? Check.">THE MOST POPULAR YAHOO IMAGE EVER!!!</a></p><p>It's a goofy example, but I've been intrigued for months with these sorts of things, and with observing the creation and dissemination of memes on the web. This has just been amplified by trying to help <a href="http://www.torrez.org" title="evil genius">Andre</a> with the new version of <a href="http://www.filepile.org" title="I'm more interested in your files than your piles">FilePile</a>. Not to mention my ongoing obsession with <a href="http://www.metafilter.com" title="plastic is for losers">MeFi</a>.</p><p>Do you have any places you go to see what's new? <a href="mailto:anil@dashes.com">Let me know</a>.</p>]]>
      
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