I have a ton of data on total diary posts, comments/diary, etc. That’s all public, scraped from the site. Let’s see if comment practices and diary posts expand or contract, 2 or 3 months out. Let’s see how the top diarists behave, and if new "star" diarists emerge as well. Let’s see if they form geographically-based tag clouds, and use it to augment meetups. Let’s see how they incorporate facebook, twitter, and youtube. Let’s see if other organizations, like Courage Campaign, OFA, PCCC, etc, treat DailyKos as an ecology or as a separate organization (do they work in coalition with DKos, organize through DKos, or a hybrid of both?).
This will probably cause a hiatus in my book-writing for at least a few weeks. I’ve reached out to two other researchers so far to see if they’re interested in developing a research program around the rollout. If you’re interested in taking part, please let me know.