Re: Tracking the meme

You don't need jscript - you can use the URL itself. Retrieving an image
doesn't /require/ that the URL be a file based url. Spam mail does this via
'web-bugs'. Little graphics whose src URL has 'interesting' query parameters
that identify the recipient, etc.

You could also tail the web hit log for the image URL and post an event to a
topic. There are no problems, only solutions...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:01 AM
Subject: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Tracking the meme


> I was thinking about the new mps button, and viral marketing and
> memes, and mod-pubsub, and about the new wiki page for sites that use
> mod-pubsub, and stuff, and I was kind of stuttering on a comment jp
> made about the inherent weakness of depending on people to register
> things manually (useful in some contexts, a barrier in others, but that's
> another topic)...
>
> ...and I thought, it sure would be nice if we knew where the mps-button
> was getting to, and how often people were being exposed to it...
>
> What if we embedded a jscript in the button that did a quick pubsub 'ping'
> to the mps server? Then, whenever a page that contains the mps-button is
> opened, we'd get a ping. With this feedback, we could monitor how wide
> and how fast the meme is spreading. That seems useful.
>
> Then I started wondering what kind of information should be contained
> in this ping, if any. I think another mps-er named Mike was just
> recently wondering how to discover what other event publications are
> lurking just around the corner. Could event producers (electively, those
> that want to be discoverable) use the ping to include some kind of
> basic namespace/topic info about, say, the root topic space that their
> feed publishes to? So that their feed could be dynamically discovered by
> prospective consumers?
>
> I also am very interested in this issue of 'discoverability of feeds'...
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
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