This is an attempt to try to extract, analyze and visualize memes from blog data. This is pre-alpha research code (which might break and kill your dog).
Currently the algorithm that we are trying out is based on Kolak and Schilt's
paper Generating links by mining quotations. The data is a collection of
blogs crawled during 08 and 09 available to us in the following format:
blogID \t Date Crawled \t Blog