memes

The term meme – a story, idea, or concept that gets picked up by a community and passed along and added to along the way – has taken on new resonance in the online age, and particularly over the last few years within the social media world and blogosphere. Memes are now thought of as the hot topic of a moment, the thing that everyone is talking about or responding to within a short space of time.

Examples include the 25 things about me meme, which was so popular as to fuel an explosion of activity on social networking site Facebook.

News aggregator Memeorandum plays off the word meme in its name, and in fact has been dubbed a meme tracker. A playful take on memes is the bitchmeme, which is thought to be a meme manufactured by link baiting bloggers, usually during a slow news day or the weekend, in which a controversial opinion is announced in the hope of picking up attention.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “memes”

• Glenn Beck Meets Internet, Loses [Victory]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 865
  Maybe Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990, and maybe he didnt. Wherever the truth lies, its clear that the World Intellectual Property Organization has decided that he cant stop the internet from asking the question . Because he is an idiot, Glenn Beck tried in September to shut down ...
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• RT/WW: Christmas decor

  
  Sasha says... — Authority: 108
  Preparations for the coming holiday season is in full blast here in the country right now. The holiday season in this part of the world starts right after Halloween and ends on the celebration of the Three Kings in January. So you can only imagine the preparation done by most of the Filipino people. [...]
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• monday mentions: november 9th

  
  mommablogsalot — Authority: 429
  Monday Mentions is an easy way to share any and all of the fun things you’ve discovered recently, online or otherwise. For more information read this post by the mastermind behind this whole thing, Jen @ Daily Mish Mash . Here’s what I’ve discovered this week… My mind has been pretty heavily ...
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• Menu Plan Monday

  
  Recipes, Reviews, News and More - From Val's Kitchen — Authority: 572
  Here’s five meals we’ll be eating this week. We’re not at home for the other two nights. Grilled Cheese I’ll be using American cheese that’s on sale for $3.99 per pound and a loaf of bread that is $1.79. Corn Sausage Chowder I’ll be using 3 pounds of Italian Sausage that’s on sale for $1.99 per ...
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• QOTW – 2009/11/09

  
  Snarkland — Authority: 428
  And the Question of the Week is… What are the most important things you learned from your father? My answer is after the cut… Oh… everything? To be fair, though, this isn’t as much just from my father as it is from the Committee of G-ma, daddy, Bill and Doris, Aunt Gay and Uncle Joe. To be patient; to ...
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• Three Woolf Moon Shirt

  
  horklog — Authority: 135
  Just in time for Christmas!! (the nerdier this meme gets, the funnier it gets) ( shakesville )
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• Seasons Meme – Meme Monday

  
  Stuff — Authority: 127
  L. posted this a while back but I never got around to writing it… Tell us what you like/dislike about the four seasons. Spring Like : the smell, the way the ground is really wet and soft, the first flowers, that the days are getting longer, my birthday Dislike : late snow and frost, usually it’s the ...
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• Ellipsis Monday Photo Shoot #63: Downtown.

  
  Ellipsis — Authority: 467
  "Farmers only worry during growing season, but towns people worry all the time." -Edgar Watson Howe EMPS #63: DOWNTOWN. Easy one this week! Grab your cameras and photograph the DOWNTOWN area of where you live! Big city, small hamlet... its all good! But for this photo shoot I want to see brand new ...
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• Giveaway: Tutu

  
  Smellyann Strikes Again — Authority: 131
  CanCan at Mom Most Traveled is hosting the Fall Blog Giveaway Carnival, so I thought Id jump on board with a giveaway of my own. The prize: One tutu of your choice from my Etsy shop Who can win: Anyone, the world over To enter: Leave a comment on this post, telling me which tutu you would like to ...
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• Menu Plan Monday, 11/9 – 11/15

  
  chickinthekitchen.com — Authority: 122
  Overall, I think my slow cooker-heavy week was a success. The only “do not repeat” was the Slow Cooker Potato & Kale Soup (I misread the recipe and it turned out way too thick). I’d rather make a mashed potato side dish with the kale incorporated instead (like the Broccoli Rabe & Potato Salad ). The ...
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• Let it Go

  
  Samantha Ling — Authority: 112
  I watched the new episode of the Housewives of Orange County. I know I shouldn’t watch this junk. It’s definitely one of those secret pleasures that I shouldn’t be telling you about. I’m actually a little embarrassed. But Anderson Cooper is watching it. He’s admitted it. So it can’t be that bad ...
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• Belated Saturday Night Fun - Oswalt/Oswald World Surname Distribution

  
  Jessica's Genejournal — Authority: 466
  For this Saturday Night Challenge, Randy has challenged other genealogy bloggers to determine the world wide distribution of their surnames , and although Im late in posting my response, I still wanted to write something before the weekend ends. For this challenge, I searched for two surnames: Oswalt and Oswald. ...
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• Invention and Honest Scrap

  
  Really Rachel — Authority: 416
  I’ve got some secrets. I must have. They’re in here somewhere *roots about under bed*. In order to accept my lovely ‘Honest Scrap’ award from Inshin, I’ve got to dig out ten secret things and share them with you. It says so in The Rules: 1. ‘The Honest Scrap Blogger Award’ must be shared. 2. The ...
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• Monday Mingle - November 9th

  
  Eighty MPH Mom — Authority: 521
  Welcome to Monday Mingle - September 28th!   If youd like to join in the fun, do a short vlog on your blog, link up below in the linky, post the above button on your site and link to me. Each week we will have questions, subjects or ideas that we can all talk about on our vlog . Visit the other ...
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• its the sun day award and meem show!!! soon with noo theem song reely i meen it!!!

  
  Dennis's Diary of Destruction — Authority: 470
  hello nice reederz its dennis the vizsla dog hay yes it is wunse agin time for the sun day awards and meem show!!!  and i am verry hopeful that this week we wil finaly be gitting a noo theem song as i hav invited the faymus minstrel yusuf islam to come and rite a song for me this time!!! oh this sownds ...
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• The Sunday Salon — History vs. Historical Fiction

  
  Medieval Bookworm — Authority: 428
  Apparently, my recent burnout only applies to historical fiction, not history.  I’ve no idea why this is.  Perhaps I’m just craving some truth!  In any case, I definitely needed an escape from the Tudors.  My nanowrimo novel is set in the late Victorian period in England, so I was thrilled to discover a ...
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• Camera-Critters #83

  
  San Diego with Love! — Authority: 120
  Its my first time to join the camera critters meme. Hope im welcome though. Anyways, We found two wild deer a few weeks ago when we went up in the mountain for summer adventure. It was my first time to see deer in the wild and it’s really fun and cool. We saw wild turkey as well. Late of posting this but never too ...
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• When two edu-tribes go to war…

  
  The FordLog — Authority: 99
  Steve Wheeler is posting a bite-size series of blog posts over the next week around the theme of  ’ Digital Tribes, Virtual Clans. ‘ They are based on a chapter he contributed to a wider work entitled ‘ Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures . ‘ The first two posts on ‘ Digital tribal identity ‘ and ‘ ...
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• Memes and mimetics

  
  Dyneslines — Authority: 119
  Recent years have seen a good deal of interest in memes and mimetics. Regrettably, this subject is not always well understood. At the request of a friend, I produced the following short account. A meme is a postulated unit of cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another ...
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• For Coming Wellness & Egg Drop Soup

  
  2 Witches Blog — Authority: 122
  Today I am grateful for a short week at school for Princess Nibbles which allowed her to only miss 2 days of school instead of 5 as she has had a nasty chest cold since last weekend. Today I am grateful for a Dr. willing to call in prescriptions for me on Friday when I came down with one of my sinus ...
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