After a recent New York Times piece about bloggers getting fired for sharing tidbits about their workplaces, BL Ochman's What's Next blog is conducting an interesting experiment about the ability of the blogosphere to propagate ideas throughout the mainstream media:

"I've decided to start an unscientific project tracking how long it takes a story to get from the blogosphere to The New York Times. In the case of bloggers getting fired for what they write on their personal blogs, it's been about five months, according to this BlogPulse conversation tracker."

(Hat tip: BlogRunner )