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  • But DayPop is small potatoes compared to the traffic BlogPulse is monitoring: BlogPulse had tracked 1,064 blog references to the phrase by this evening and highlighted its "burstiness" in Monday's roundup of weekend blog activity.

    Philocrites: How's the Unitarian Jihad doing? 2005

  • But DayPop is small potatoes compared to the traffic BlogPulse is monitoring: BlogPulse had tracked 1,064 blog references to the phrase by this evening and highlighted its "burstiness" in Monday's roundup of weekend blog activity.

    Philocrites: April 2005 Archives 2005

  • The book's interest is actually in the "burstiness" of the correspondence - a flurry of letters back and forth in 1919, then silence, then the conversation resumed in 1921.

    Discover Blogs 2010

  • And from 1949 to 1959 "atomic" is the word with the greatest "burstiness".

    Boing Boing: February 16, 2003 - February 22, 2003 Archives 2003

  • They just buffer data that flows through them for a fraction of a second to reduce the burstiness of network traffic and then immediately forget about it.

    Ars Technica iljitsch.vanbeijnum@arstechnica.com (Iljitsch van 2011

  • They just buffer data that flows through them for a fraction of a second to reduce the burstiness of network traffic and then immediately forget about it.

    Ars Technica iljitsch.vanbeijnum@arstechnica.com (Iljitsch van 2011

  • They just buffer data that flows through them for a fraction of a second to reduce the burstiness of network traffic and then immediately forget about it.

    Ars Technica iljitsch.vanbeijnum@arstechnica.com (Iljitsch van 2011

  • Once again she cooked the prawns to perfect burstiness.

    The Food Pornographer 2009

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