21st February 2005, 10:49 PM
Hewlett-Packard Labs found that the most popular bloggers tend not to be the ones coming up with new ideas. Instead, they tend to be good copiers of relatively influential, yet unknown, other bloggers. They also tend to be poor at attributing "their" ideas. In the course of the study, the researchers developed a complex algorithm for tracking the origin of ideas through the web - a technology that may prove useful in improving relevancy of search results.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.