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How a Story Gets Started
The most common way for a story to get started is for mainstream media to comment about the world of blogs, Google, websites, or the development of some new facet of the Internet. Of those stories we traced, the least common way for a story to get started is for a blogger to start a new topic, although this was the case in two stories of the 45 we studied. When a story starts in mainstream media which cuts across blogger opinion, it is likely that a blogosphere story gets started on three or four blogs almost at the same time and sometimes even more. Then within a day, the story becomes more focused with each of the initiators acknowledging the other comments on the other blogs and adding further to the story. Read more in: http://www.microdoc-news.info/blogger/2003/05/20.html#a636
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