{"id":896,"date":"2003-11-01T16:40:15","date_gmt":"2003-11-01T16:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/11\/01\/viral_communications.html"},"modified":"2003-11-01T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2003-11-01T16:40:15","slug":"viral_communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/11\/01\/viral_communications.html","title":{"rendered":"viral communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Media Lab just put together a new consortium called <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.media.mit.edu\/viral\/\">Viral Communications<\/a>.  When i first heard the title, i became super psyched &#8211; someone is finally studying digital virality heads on!  But alas, it seems that the focus is to create technology that permits virality rather than actually trying to figure out what makes things viral online.  Is anyone other than Jonah Peretti studying meme spread and virality?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Media Lab just put together a new consortium called Viral Communications. When i first heard the title, i became super psyched &#8211; someone is finally studying digital virality heads on! But alas, it seems that the focus is to create technology that permits virality rather than actually trying to figure out what makes things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}