Mono is still dead, just as I predicted in 2006 and re-iterated in 2009.

http://realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme/?entry=he_s_still_dead_jim

Dead.
DOA.

I posted my first Meme Graph and reference here on Slashdot back in 2006.
What comes next?
We go from measurement to manipulation.

http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme?entry=meme_theory

Diffraction is my term for measuring how well a new meme captures more bandwdith. In a Quality-Of-Service network, bandwidth always has contention and grabbing more bandwidth is difficult. If you understand how to grab bandwidth through meme patterns, you can propagate your information ahead of others.

Flex versus Silverlight meme from three months ago, although I first ran this graph one year ago for a client deciding on technology direction...

http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme/?entry=flex_vs_silverlight

Rate-of-growth for Flex and Silverlight is almost the same and Flex maintains a comfortable lead.

"a government gone feral"

I argue that it's an inevitable outcome of ecological diversification of information and the Internet. It's not just occurring in the United States. The internet is "speciating", evolving differentiation in order to limit infectious memes.

http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme?entry=global_differentiation

Is our government nuts?
Well, yes.
But that's a separate issue.

http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme/?entry=ipv6_revisited

It makes no matter to me but it looks like IPv6 is finally taking off. I wouldn't bet against it.

http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme/?entry=ipv6_revisited

I posted this a few months ago. IPv6 is finally broken out of its false trend lines of the past few years so it looks like it's finally moving towards a mainstream technology.

As I noted five weeks ago, the IPv6 meme shows significant change almost one year ago. There's substantially greater chatter about IPv6 and the rate of change is up.

http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme/?entry=ipv6_revisited

You guys are finally catching up to me.

http://www.realmeme.com/Main/theory101/index.jsp

Here's the mechanism for Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine"....

http://www.realmeme.com/Main/theory101/diffraction.jsp

You can determine patient zero entry points, periods of susceptibility, etc, through simple keyword counts and some semantic analysis.

I originally redicted Mono's demise in Dec, 2005 (reconfirmed in Jan, 2006), well before Neil McAllister and received quite a bit of jeering and obnoxious commentary -

http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme?entry=mono_meme_update_mono_still

However, as we all know now, it has indeed been dead for the past 2 1/2 years and it will stay dead. Check out the relative trend strength for Mono versus Silverlight or Ruby.

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=linux+mono,+silverlight,+ruby&l=

He's still dead, Jim.

This isn't about prisons.

This is about Mumbai.

Keyword graphs show the story...

http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme?entry=zune_meme_rerun

Microsoft entered a market nearing its growth inflection point with a marginal product. They thought they could win through hype and Microsoft branding.

Microsoft Vista is failing for similar reasons.

There's good evidence that the rate of Internet growth has peaked and is now declining. There were several signs about eighteen months ago when I made this prediction...

http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme/?entry=internet_state_change

Netcraft rate of change in host growth could be a good proxy for overall growth, too...

http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme?entry=internet_inflection_point_microsoft

I say the Internet inflected in Winter of 2007 and the after-effects are just now showing up in employment and revenue figures. Marginal companies will have increasing difficulty in making money, which is possibly why the newpapers are finally starting to fail en mass.

The Internet has entered a long-term inflection point.

http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme?entry=internet_inflection_point_microsoft

Network traffic for many major sites began shrinking or slowing in growth 1-2 years ago.
The negative growth in e-commerce sales was not an anomaly.