Memeufacturing
Memeufacture is a neat idea. John Wehr is scanning weblogs (probably RSS feeds) and seeing who links to what, and more importantly, who links to what first. Then, he’s figuring out which weblogs tend to have the best (most propogated) links earliest. These he deems to be “most influential”. Right now in the popular category, the top three most influential are Blogdex (which is another meta- site and should be filtered out, or maybe this problem will take care of itself as he adds more “real” weblogs to his spider list), Slashdot, and Boing Boing. Sounds about right.
This is another important tool for those of us not satsfied with getting our memes recycled, second or third hand, and who are always backtracking up the river, following the flow, and trying to find the True Source.