Memetics

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• Some Historical Perspective

  
  the Foresight Institute — Authority: 564
  At Bryan Caplan’s blog this morning there was an odd comment that stirred up a 40-year old memory: A single sentence in the Durants’ The Age of Napoleon makes me wonder whether I can trust a word they write on economic policy: The memory is that it was reading another part of the Durant’s Story of ...
  5 days ago

• Eine Kleine Nachtphysik

  
  the Foresight Institute — Authority: 564
  (or a little physics about climate change. Or at least a few clarifications about some of the points being raised.) In the wake of Climategate, a wide variety of mistakes and misapprehensions are being circulated on the Internet (as if that weren’t happening before). For example, in this article from the ...
  1 week ago

• Memetic Engineering and Memetic Engineer

  
  Chris Abraham — Authority: 435
  I am the proud owner of MemeticEngineer.com — I have owned it forever!  Anyway, I just wanted to share with you what memetic engineering is — I also own memes.org — I love the concept and theory around memetics! Memetic Engineer on Disinfo Coined by zoologist Richard Dawkins in his controversial ...
  1 week ago

• 1950s hidden camera footage?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 625
  Does anyone have "hidden camera" footage of people from the 1950s and before having candid conversations? When theyre giving prepared/on-camera remarks in any footage I watch, people seem very very stilted - like unskilled actors. Im wondering if this was just the style of the "public voice" at the time, or if people ...
  2 weeks ago

• Normal people scare me

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 158
  All around the world, including on the other side of this screen you are reading now, people act according to what I call little mental programs. They learn to obey mommy and daddy (or whomever the child-rearers are in their lives), and to transfer those patterns of obedience on to and to adopt them from individuals ...
  4 weeks ago

• Nowism -- A Theme for the New Era?

  
  Minding the Planet — Authority: 92
  DRAFT 1 -- A Work in Progress Introduction Heres an idea Ive been thinking about: its a concept for a new philosophy, or perhaps just a name for a grassroots philosophy that seems to be emerging...
  5 weeks ago

• Nowism -- A Theme for the New Era?

  
  Minding the Planet — Authority: 92
  DRAFT 1 -- A Work in Progress Introduction Heres an idea Ive been thinking about: its a concept for a new philosophy, or perhaps just a name for a grassroots philosophy that seems to be emerging...
  5 weeks ago

• Things you ought to know about memes online

  
  Fresh Egg Internet Marketing & Web Design Blog — Authority: 121
  The formula for Social Media is Memes equals Weem - or What the F*** is a Weem? and what has it to do with Social media?Well they are not some clever iphone app that updates your profile every time you sneeze. To understand Weems, we need to go back a few years to when I [...] Post from: Fresh Egg Internet Marketing ...
  5 weeks ago

• Interview with Craig Newmark: How the Craigslist Meme Spread

  
  Dan Zarrella — Authority: 103
  One of the most ubiquitous and disruptive websites to emerge in the last 10 years is Craigslist. Impacting industries from real estate, news paper classifieds, careers and auctions the site has for the most part remained entirely free to use. A great example of organic, word-of-mouth spread I’ve always been ...
  6 weeks ago

• Lets All Wear "God Sucks" Buttons to Work

  
  The Religion Virus — Authority: 123
  I have an idea – lets get a bunch of big, red "God Sucks" buttons, pin them on our chests, and go to work! If you work in a grocery store, or a bank, or at the welfare office, or maybe even as a Justice of the Peace ... no problem! Im sure your employer wont fire you. Offend shoppers? Piss off welfare ...
  6 weeks ago

• Whats After the Real Time Web?

  
  Minding the Planet — Authority: 92
  In typical Web-industry style were all focused minutely on the leading trend-of-the-year, the real-time Web. But in this obsession we have become a bit myopic. The real-time Web, or what some of us...
  6 weeks ago

• Whats After the Real Time Web?

  
  Minding the Planet — Authority: 92
  In typical Web-industry style were all focused minutely on the leading trend-of-the-year, the real-time Web. But in this obsession we have become a bit myopic. The real-time Web, or what some of us...
  6 weeks ago

• Halloween Candy, the Evil Pagan Ritual

  
  The Religion Virus — Authority: 123
  While recalling fun Halloween memories with friends, one lamented that shed never been allowed to go trick-or-treating because her parents thought it was anti-Christian, a pagan holiday. All I could think was, "Geez, get over it!" I mean, let your kids have a little fun! Even kids know its just a silly leftover ...
  6 weeks ago

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