I was quite impressed with the report. The technique described is certianly a valid one and as 'News' dissimination changes over the future this report and technique(s) described could go along way toward quantifying how it occurs. Howevr, you make a very good point Mr. Whitescreek, the report makes no mention of any attempt to determine (let alone quantify) factual vs non-factual content (facts vs opinion) and absolutely no mechanism for determining (or measuring) how much of a blogs dissiminated content is pure BS (ie: Propaganda). I beleive that this will prove to limit the usefulness of this report and its technique(s). As it stands now (if I read it correctly), it can measure only the quantity of dissiminated (transfered) content and not its quality (truthfulness vs 'truthiness').

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SteveMule