{"id":144,"date":"2009-03-14T11:41:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T16:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/?p=144"},"modified":"2015-07-23T01:20:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T01:20:05","slug":"here-trends-the-fun-cooker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Here Trends the Fun Cooker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><div id=\"attachment_145\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/090314_hot_richard.jpg\" alt=\"Google Trends at 10pm\" title=\"090314_hot_richard\" width=\"240\" height=\"217\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Trends at 10pm<\/p><\/div><\/em>I have started to look into trend tracking and how trends become social media topics that rally people together.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, following a genius episode of 30 Rock, I jumped on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends\">Google Trends<\/a> to see if there was any activity around two phrases that they introduced to a network TV audience: &#8220;Fun Cooker&#8221; and &#8220;Hot Richard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As soon as the show ended, I fired up Twitter and searched &#8220;Fun Cooker&#8221; and received 10 results. Each time I hit reload the count jumped: 10; 14; 20.  So that was enough to show that th eworld had a new catch phrase.<\/p>\n<p>I jumped over to Google Trends to see what was happening there, and I found that &#8220;Hot Richard&#8221; was the #1 trending term.  It is a term that generates relevant results (not going to link to them from here), but never generates traffic, then suddenly during the show it goes through the roof.  <\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how these phrases start to appear over the next few days on Facebook and Myspace.  I&#8217;ll check back in a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a genius episode of 30 Rock, I jumped on Google Trends to see if there was any activity around two phrases that they introduced to a network TV audience: &#8220;Fun Cooker&#8221; and &#8220;Hot Richard.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,67,76,87,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}