The Famous Monkey Blogging Experiment

I remember reading articles of early experiments performed on monkeys by the military. These monkeys were kept in a house, confined to their bedrooms for most of the time with nothing but a computer and a connection to the internet. Now and then, the test subjects were brought together for tea parties and other social events in the living room.

Each monkey was assigned a blog, and given the task of keeping up this blog on a regular basis. Some monkeys would write about how they missed their Amazon home and family while others preferred to write about events in the household.

Oneday, for the first time in the history of blogging, one of the hairy tree climbers decided to link to the other monkeys' blogs and write about them. The test subject was referred to as 128369.
128369 would spend most of their time writing about the other test subjects and about how much he enjoyed reading their blogs. It was a most unusual case, since the scientists on the project did not expect the primates to read one anothers' blogs; back then, monkeys were only known to write them.


Monkeys can get really upset if you don't read their blog

Word soon got around about 128369's blog, and a strange phenomenon began to happen. The test subjects were soon reading about each other. Oneday, much to the surprise of the scientists, subject 128369 turned up at a tea party with a large stick which he had ordered from Ebay. He proceeded to beat those who had not been reading his blog. This had the effect of driving up the hits to his own site.

Soon, the community was divided into two groups, those who read and those who didn't. A few of the test subjects wrote about how much they hated 128369, and how they resented the fact that his blog had become so popular with regular updates about the news, celebrities and sporting events. A subject 5566678 even attempted to sabotage 128369's site by hacking into it. A day later this subject was found beaten up and stuffed into a washing machine.