ZH_Current_Meme_Index, 15-Sep-2011
| Category / Meme | # Articles | 13-Sep | 14-Sep | 15-Sep |
| Bailouts | 5 | 5 | ||
| Banksters | 8 | 2 | 6 | |
| BRICs | 2 | 2 | ||
| China | 1 | 1 | ||
| China/Europe | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| Economic Indicators | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| Europe/Default | 24 | 5 | 14 | 5 |
| FX/Derivatives/Trading | 1 | 1 | ||
| Gold | 2 | 2 | ||
| Hedge Funds | 2 | 2 | ||
| Housing | 1 | 1 | ||
| Market Analysis | 3 | 3 | ||
| Middle East | 1 | 1 | ||
| Munis | 1 | 1 | ||
| Obama | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Obama/Scandal | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| Other | 4 | 2 | 2 | |
| Political Left | 1 | 1 | ||
| Political Right | 1 | 1 | ||
| Politics/General | 1 | 1 | ||
| PsyOps | 1 | 1 | ||
| Stocks/HFT | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Treasuries | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total ZH Articles Reviewed | 95 |
| Category / Meme | Total + / - | 13-Sep | 14-Sep | 15-Sep |
| Bailouts | 1 | 1 | ||
| China/Europe | -2 | -2 | ||
| Economic Indicators | -5 | -1 | -2 | -2 |
| Europe/Default | -21 | -5 | -12 | -4 |
| Gold | 1 | 1 | ||
| Hedge Funds | -2 | -2 | ||
| Housing | -1 | -1 | ||
| Market Analysis | -2 | -2 | ||
| Middle East | -1 | -1 | ||
| Obama | -1 | -1 | ||
| Obama/Scandal | -4 | -1 | -3 | |
| Stocks/HFT | -2 | -2 | 0 | |
| Treasuries | -1 | -1 |
Comments:
1) Three days worth of Zero Hedge articles is not very many. Clearly, the "Stories du Jour" are going to mentioned the most often. ZH is famed for breaking news. There IS enough data to see certain trends, but there is NOT enough data for me to make informed comments on how ZH communicates "memes" out to the world other than the above.
2) The mega-Europe/Default meme is still the big one, but, it is as well THE "Story du Jour". ALL of those stories were negative in outlook for Europe.
3) But, there are some trends emerging from the above (increasing attention today paid to Bailouts, Banksters, and Obama/Scandal). There might be interesting insights into seeing how these trends in ZH memes change over time.
4) I have data on Contributors and Guest Posts, but I have not gotten around to examining them yet (esp. to see if there are differences between Contributors, for example, and "Tyler Durden" pieces).
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I still have not decided how much work to put into this project, and/or whether or not to change directions or try something else (for example, waiting on a GOLD thread, and tabulating positive and negative comments).
Zero Hedge, as I have found, has a HUGE data-set! It must be like Heaven for analytical DBAs working there...
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