And now that I’m back in Baltimore, it’s off to the pub. More later tonight perhaps.

Prima materia

And trying to see how this enters cyberspace?

Am I following you? Or no?

My sense is that the Universe runs on this stuff, prima materia, and that the internet is more sensitive to measuring this, being such a subtle, quick, socially connected medium.

But there is a certian amount of reverberation and things reflecting back on themselves.

But what I think is that there is a noosphere and a collective unconscious out there, and certian people tune into it and are “inspired” to bring it into existence.

This isn’t everyone all the time, its certian people at certain times, that channel ideas.

A lot of what goes on are people just reacting to things or responding to conditioning.

The broader question, of which this investigation is merely a subset is - of course - where do search trends come from? Can you trace it back to television stations, to advertisements, to specific media outlets, to PR companies, corporations, manufacturers, to word-of-mouth viral transmission from user to user? What technologies would you need to measure these trends, their origins and patterns of transmission - or at least make educated estimates on the raw data? What companies are providing these services? To corporate clients? To governments? To the public?

I think you are on the tight track with this but you are going the wrong way. So that’s good.

The first question with the relation between google searches and tv programming is about collecting the drool from a mass of pavlovian dogs and weighing it and asking what it means.

It doesn’t mean anything.

Measuring the drool might be a good thing to do because then you will know what to eliminate as not important.

Its the anomalies you want. Certian people are more like lightening rods, than conditioned subjects.

You doing a google search on a weird dream you had is more in line with where ideas come from than someone typing in the name of a contestant on American Idol.

Find a way to studdy the google searches of people that are like “mavens” or something.

http://www.metatech.org/credo_mutwa.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BMP-H2ydJk