A couple of things were apparent to me when my post on Google and Social Media Monitoring was published yesterday at MyCustomer.com first, then on my blog immediately after.

…. (and didn’t appear in Social Media Today, btw, while I asked them to publish it,  given up trying to figure out what their criteria or selection process is ).

I noticed when I looked at the commentary in BackType around my post on Big Brother & Google’s Entrance into Social Media Monitoring and I saw the phrase “I’ve been saying this is coming” echoed by the community of readers and re-tweeted – having a life of it’s own.

I am also thinking of “WhatTheTrend” website and Twitter Hashtags being Trended realtime (wish the had a historical dictionary of all hasttags and how they trended – but I guess this is as good as we can get for now on an explanation of what the hashtags appearing now mean and who started them).

With Social Media Monitoring tools you can pull out the entire history around any set of keywords or topics and pull out the hashtags – while that is not the customary use – it is valuable – especially for research into what people are saying and what they want around a topic.

I’m using Sysomos Map – one of my favorite platforms to use for analysis, to look at the conversation or “meme” around “I’ve been saying this is coming”

…. in this case – the literal phrase brings hardly any results – so I went with “I’ve been saying” AND “this is coming” when they are within 5 words of each other, over the last 6 months

And this is the Word Map I get from Sysomos Text Analytics

And I’m wondering that if I wrote my post – or amended it, after the fact to say …. “I’ve been saying this is coming” or “I have been saying this is coming” – my post world more forcefully become part of the meme it’s already “in” – not because I said so, but some of my followers – DID.       I just have to reinforce that idea – since I happen to agree with it – and this on way to do it.  So I’ll change the title of the post – just did.

So, when someone says “I’ve been saying this is coming” … what are they talking about?   Here’s a quick way to find out using Sysomos Key Conversations.  Looking at blogs first -

Below is a list of top sentences that appear in content relevant to the search query. Click on a sentence below to refine the query.

for years i have been saying to look towards the uk to see what is coming our way in regards to islam, and the similarities of the sharia movement can be seen in this video.

i think that many of these scientists are believers of the global warming cult, and because they believe so fanatically, will do anything to make the data fit into their theory.

all i know, is that i have been saying for months now how democrats or republicans — it really doesn’t matter which group you support these days because they’re both sides to the same coin.

At least as far as blog monitoring goes – when someone says “I’ve been saying this is coming” it often means comparing some situation to something other situation – as implying there is a link.  The first example compares Islam to Sharia (whatever that is), the second example compares Global Warming Scientists to fanatics and the last example compares democrats to republicans and says they’re both two sides of the same thing.

I planned to go further with this analysis but decided not to – mainly as much of the content being surfaced was significant in it’s own right but was not clearly about “I’ve been saying” and “this is coming”.