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General-interest community weblog
MetaFilter, known as MeFi to its members, is a general-interest community weblog, founded in 1999 and based in the United States, featuring links to content that users have discovered on the web. Since 2003, it has included the popular question-and-answer subsite Ask MetaFilter. The site has seven paid staff members as of August 2025. MetaFilter has about 47,691 active members as of May 2024. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: MetaFilterA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Influence and inequality in the virtual worldThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Exploring the dynamics of blog communities: the case of MetaFilterCited 45 times
- Go sideways: Matthew HaugheyA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Exploring the dynamics of blog communities: the case of MetaFilter
Inverted cones grating for flexible metafilter at optical and infrared frequencies
Factors Influencing the Answerability and Popularity of a Health-Related Post in the Question-and-Answer Community: Infodemiology Study of Metafilter
Design of a thermoelastic metafilter through non-local continualization methods
THE METAFILTER AND THE BREWING INDUSTRY
Theoretical study of a widely tunable terahertz metafilter based on a simple double-layered subwavelength metallic rod architecture
High contrast biphasic mechanical metafilter for elastic wave mitigation
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Influence and inequality in the virtual worldEdward R. Sherrill · 2008
We've Got BlogEditors of Perseus Publishing · 2002
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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