One of the interesting features of modern news coverage is the way that stories spread across the web. Many research teams have attempted to model this process, likening it among other things, to the spread of flu, fashions and forest fires.

One of the fundamental insights that these studies have produced is why these phenomenon spread in similar ways. These phenomenon do not share similar physical properties--a flu virus is not much like a burning leaf or a designer dress.  

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