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(timings are approximate)
Hour 0: news is created/disseminated from the source

Hours 0-30: people with a direct interest micro-blog (Tweeting, fb-status, etc.), text, and blog about it.

Hours 12-48: people with a secondary interest micro-blog, text, and blog about it.

Hours 24-72: dinosaur print and broadcast media start to disseminate the story.

Hours 48-144: people who prior to 2001 thought  "computers were for geeks"  and people under 21 who would have been in that camp if they were old enough start to micro-blog and e-mail each-other at work about it, sharing links to print and broadcast media web sites ad nauseam and posting insane rants in the comments sections off the news stories and in unrelated forums before getting distracted by the next story.
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Once again I must say the Internet is a strange and wonderful thing. This morning I was greeted by an e-mail from Georgia (the American state, not the Russian one) where someone wanted some development work. Amazing. When I put up my business web site I never expected anyone to even see it without my directing them to it, let alone any business to come in from it. As it stands, however, the amount of money that has come in as a direct result of people finding the site is well into five figures. I guess I shouldn't bitch about the money I spend on the server and my connection.

Fun

Jul. 4th, 2001 01:16 pm
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So I got back to the guy from Turkey yesterday about the PHP implementation. He was pleased with my response and sent this thank you:
Hello,

Thank you very much indeed for your comments.

King Regards

Tanju
I just love the idiom. "King Regards" I assume means a salutation worthy of a king. I have a mental image of a Turk in riding robes bowing flamboyantly.

It weirds me out every time I get a random question from someone in some faraway place. I've had people from India, Germany, England, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and now Turkey contact me out of the blue with technical questions. Despite the fact that I've been using the Internet for well over a decade now, it still has this capacity to stun me.

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