Jure Leskovec on Meme-tracking and the Dynamics of the News Cycle
Channel: The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Date: 2010-02-17

Jure Leskovec of Stanford University explores the internet news cycle--the set of temporal patterns by which news grows and fades over time. His team's analysis of approximately 1.6 million mainstream media sites and blogs for a period of three months shows a distinct "heartbeat"-like pattern in the handoff between news and blogs.