August 7, 2002

  • It was a crazy summer for the kids.  They had the madness.  They had the craze.  And they had the acumen to master the technology.  But, most importantly, they had the time.  The sweet, blessed, precious leisure time to pursue their craze, their mayhem ad absurdum.  Like never before and, perhaps, until next summer, never again will they overwhelm as profusely and as profoundly as they managed en masse to do so this summer…for it was


    The Summer Of Their eProp Content


    I might be wrong, but according to my preciz Aynsteinian calculations, the madcap epropz (aka, epilllz, etc.) antics of the Azn Crew, et. al. have reached their peak with the summer heat. And soon, with the imminent start of school, they will relent once again and assume a lesser adjunct social status in line with a back-to-school regimen.  In other words, I expect the number of eProps collectively generated by the Azn Crew to be generally inversely proportional to time spent at school activities (attendance, extracurriculars, homework).


    Here are my propalogical computations:


    Let’s say “Izababeangelz” is currently rocking the Featured Content top-rank status with 120 eProps a day, on the average.  Upon going back to school, I project these factors to impact her expected draw:


    1.5 times (more) eProps as “new” classmates are recruited into Xanga
    .5 times (less) eProps as the time opportunities to be online are constrained by school activities
    .8 times (less) eProps as in-school contact serves to furnish the personal updates that were more remotely furnished by Xanga during the summer recess
    .9 times (less) eProps as the enthusiasm for blogging diminishes with a downsizing of their average daily eProp catch.


    Hence, the 120 summer eProps will undergo a reduction of  (120 * 1.5) * .5 * .8 * .9 = 65, or high-middling placement, but not typically dominant on the Featured Content list.


    Conversely, the XangaTrads, XangaRelics, XangaWhores, et. al.,  all tend to collectively increase their activity when school resumes as vacations get exhausted and their kids returning to school afford them more daytime leisure for personal activities such as blogging, farting, and eating ice cream.  I estimate these factors thusly:


    1.2 (more) eProps resulting from a “back-from-vacation” presence
    1.2 (more) eProps resulting from a “daytime’s freer” recovery


    Hence, if the average draw of a fairly top-drawing Xangarelic in the summer was 60, then we might expect an increase of: 60 * 1.2 * 1.2 = 86!


    So the Content-strangling summer eProp fun of the Azn Crew is about to suffer a seasonal setback.  Unless, of course, future recruitments are excessively large ( a 2-3x or larger factor) or playing hookie to blog (i.e., calling off of school “bloggy”) becomes the latest fad or the schools cave in and start teaching Blogging 101 with a two-period blogging lab.


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