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Don't Steal My Ideas!

Wired News has a story about how prominent bloggers steal ideas from less prominent ones. By steal, I mean, duplicating the idea without attributions. Due to this, a new ranking system, iRank, has been devised to measure not the popularity of a site but "how good they are at injecting ideas into the mainstream." In addition, the team that conducted this research have also provided their research online in the form of a java program called Blog Epidemic Analyzer which shows the linkings between blogs visually and interactively.