Monday, August 8, 2011

What is an "Idea" in the context of SMiSC?

What is an SMISC idea? Let's address this issue here.
  I suppose any idea could start with something as simple as a sentence or be as complex as a video. Are all new posts worthy of "idea" status? Are only repeat posts worthy of "idea" status?  Let's say we build a data structure to hold "ideas."  It might have some of the following elements:
  • unique identifier

  • initial creator

  • initial URL

  • timestamp of creation of idea

  • timestamp of system seeing the idea

  • list of variant but related ideas (reworded sentence? made a video?)

  • list of repeaters/reposters/retweeters etc and a link to the variant idea expressed

  • some kind of classification characteristics (innocuous... violent... subject...)

  • trending data to discuss the dynamics of the idea

  • a veracity indicator (unknown.. true... debunked publicly... etc nee Snopes.com)

  • a measure of the number of people repeating the idea per second (idea velocity)

  • a measure of the change in the number of people repeating the idea per second (acceleration)

Others?

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