Ideospheric Interim Thoughts

I ate and dinner and wondered why the three Internet datasources in MySpace Meme Update are offset by so many months. Networks always have latency but seven months?

I have two crude Ideosphere models -

My High-Level Abstract Model
My Sampling Model

My goal is to look at the Internet from an holistic, high-level view. Most people, particularly its builders, see it from the ground up, from low-level bits and bytes assembled into silo structures.

Then I realized that the three datasources have external latencies. We can categorize them as three types -

1) Dejanews.com is a communication tool
2) Alexa.com is a measurement tool
3) Google Trends is a reference tool

A pure communication tool will always be the first to propagate a meme.

A measurement tool will always be coincident indicator, parallelling the growth of the meme.

A reference tool will always lag a meme because it is dependent upon a communication tool to propagate the meme initially.

MySpace.com is also a communication tool but it needed a pre-existing communication tool to boot-strap the propagation of its meme. Ergo, Dejanews.com leads MySpace.com because it existed first.

It makes perfect sense that these three data sources are lagged by a few months, one from the other.

I'll write this up better tomorrow with a simple time-lagged diagram.