Tammy NYPHave you heard about the "Tammy Nyp Stolen Cell Phone Sex Video"? No? Well, there's actually a very good reason for that. I am, of course, too chock-full of integrity to send you all running to the four corners of the Web in search of such atrocities, but I am not above cynically mentioning this train wreck of a story and rationalizing it as an experiment in Web sociology. Our study questions today include: How long will this go on? And how long until someone actualizes the potentialities? If you know what I mean... Shout out to Violet Blue, where I first spied this. Those of you who absolutely must know more can go there for the scoop.
OK, OK, here's a clip.
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This episode can, indeed, have an aftermath of Web sociology conclusions. Today, just before 8pm (GMT), I posted about the story -- not particularly highlighting the subject (the movie), but rather the fact that it took 8 out of 10 top position on Technorati searches, and 2 out of the 5 top tags (and that's been going on for some days, now). Result: my blog's traffic in the following hour was the quadruple of the normal traffic; also, I can roughly -- not exactly, I haven't plot the ting in a spreadsheet -- notice that the traffic subsided faster as my story began being the "second latest", then the "third latest", etc..
Which leads to:
1. The "sex clip" issie: can this episode be a result of network effect (the history is popular because it is written about and it is written about because it's popular), or just an addition to "sex is the top search on Google" in proving that the Web is the sex freaks' meating lounge? I've posted about "Ajax" when it was in the top search results, at some point in time, and the result was not even close...
2. The "search engine sociology": it seems users *really* click the first link they find when they search for something; the user seems to always "feel lucky"®.
Well, geek rant is over. ;-)
All cynicism aside, I'm actually working on a longish theory of information dissemination and proliferation as it relates to the Internet, so this will provide an interesting and no doubt illuminating episode. I am curious about whether the system is truly vulnerable to this sort of Tammy-thing, or whether it's just a flash in the pan. I suspect this won't have the staying power of some other, similar incidents.
If it vulnerable? But sure! As for the "staying power", well, it's like I said: the topic is popular because... it is popular!
On the other hand, there's another question one can pose: is this kind of traffic a benefit? As for me, no; the visits are by far, one page view: click, no video here, bye-bye (and maybe this is a little biased by the fact that I don't write in English, so most people won't even think of seeking other interesting content). I am, at the moment, serioulsly considering a temporary "referer bounce" (or an ignore in my stats) to the expression "tammy" -- or else, I'll have no stats to look at, other than Technorati referers. ;-)
Well, I've had enough experience with flavors of the minute that I'm not expecting anything from the traffic. I am more curious about whether and how far the Original Tammy NYP will go before it crosses over to the notice of the mainstream media. We shall see. :D
Why is it that when the singaporean chinese corner Technorati, it's always about something asinine? A very small-minded world these people live in. Think there ought to be an IQ test before one is allowed to start a blog - lest the pressures to conform are effected by cretins rather than their more thoughtful nemesis. If not, methinks, the intellectual development of Les Impressionables will be subjected to the Tyranny of Gross Stupidity.
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