Memes and Webpages

Memo to me: must meme

Upon reviewing several hundred billion pages via www connections I wondered if anyone does physical work other than write, nowadays.

Despite large gaps in last century's material due to copyright - especially the astounding 75 years in the U.S. - I have a general idea where you are heading.

Little has changed in millennia.

Ideologues swayed thousands with coliseum speeches, who locally spread the word by preaching to friends, neighbors and passers-by. Instantaneous 'meme' generation but slow geographic spread.

With the 'crowd' now dispersed around the globe, apostles receive real-time Gospel via the Internet and spread ideas either in their localities or to personal (also widely-dispersed) hives, usually electronically.

Telegraph, phone and radio worked this way but Internet technologies like e-mail and RSS feeds are heating the issue exponentially.

The memes - like all preceding social phenomena - not only spread faster today, there are more of them.

The time-to-live for concepts, virtual products and attention spans is decreasing asymptotically and when 'ground zero' is reached a new paradigm will appear.

Sorry, jargonese is the cryptic needed for such an expansive sweep in this tiny space.

==== PS: This is interesting, I like experiments ====

GoMeme 4.0
This posting is GoMeme 4.0. It is part of an experiment to see if we can create a blog posting that helps 1000's of blogs get higher rankings in Google. So far we have tried 3 earlier variations. Our first test, GoMeme 1.0, spread to nearly 740 blogs in 2.5 days. This new version 4.0 is shorter, simpler, and fits more easily into your blog.

Why are we doing this? We want to help thousands of blogs get more visibility in Google and other search engines. How does it work? Just follow the instructions below to re-post this meme in your blog and add your URL to the end of the Path List below.

As the meme spreads onwards from your blog, so will your URL. Later, when your blog is indexed by search engines, they will see the links pointing to your blog from all the downstream blogs that got this via you, which will cause them to rank your blog higher in search results.

Everyone in the Path List below benefits in a similar way as this meme spreads. Try it!

Instructions: Just copy this entire post and paste it into your blog. Then add your URL to the end of the path list below, and pass it on! (Make sure you add your URLs as live links or HTML code to the Path List below.)

Path List
1. Minding the Planet
2. Luke Hutteman's public virtual MemoryStream
3. Mark Levison - a little .NET, a little photography
4. And, of course, Dextre Blogs (moi!)
5. (your URL goes here! But first, please copy this line and move it down to the next line for the next person).

(NOTE: Be sure you paste live links for the Path List or use HTML code.)

Posted by Dextre Rock : May 2004