"The internet is buzzing with news about John McCain’s VP pick, Sarah Palin. Bloggers are struggling to figure out who the Alaskan governor really is. Twitter user Eamon 1916 claims that, “Sarah Palin taught...
"Google News dips into meme tracking for blogs""Early Wednesday, Google updated its blog search tool to track news stories as they pop up on various blogs. Like Google News, the company is taking a product that began...
I found this interesting enough to share with NP. Nothing more to add yet.""There's a persistent Web meme to the effect that Google obscures sensitive or top-secret locations in Google Maps and Google Earth at the insistence of national governments. A July IT Security article...
Leave it to Gnomedex to serve up a fascinating look at the most popular internet meme ever created: the ubiquitous and gut-busting LOLCat world of I Can Has Cheezburger. "How does one build an empire on pictures of...
One of the more interesting web-propagated art/DIY/culture memes has been steampunk, which involves the re-imagining of modern gadgetry using Victorian elements (a loose definition). Perhaps inevitably, the trend is...
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This is pretty amazing. It seems YouTube is never gonna give up Rickrolling...especially on April Fools' Day."If you aren’t familiar with RickRolling - it’s when someone puts a link on website to something, but...
Leave it to the campy irreverance of web nerds to not only revive Rick Astley's classic 80s pop smash "Never Gonna Give You Up" more than twenty years later, but also to evolve it into the bona fide internet...
UK business academics meet this September to destroy the myth that intellectuals are bad for business. The 2007 Conference for Individual & Organisational Development is to be held in Sheffield. Developing the...
Astonishing evidence has been posted on
http://eardefenders.blogspot.com/
concerning the damaging effects that mobile phone useage can have on personal judgement when commuting. A senior manager seems to have...
Using examples from the coin-op games industry a series of posts has been put up on http://gullibility.blogspot.com/ that examines how power & ignorance are used in the workplace. Who's got it right? are the...
"Barack Hussein Obama fired back at Autralian PM John Howard today, invoking the familiar “nutroots” chickenhawk meme at a campaign stop in Ames, Iowa
Responding to Howard’s criticism of Obama’s Iraq surrender-by-May plan, Obama lashed out at Howard by minimizing the...
"My favorite building in the nearby vicinity, the health club staircase building of the Lakeshore Hotel in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Taken on the 19th of December 2006 with a Nikon D200 and a Nikkor 18-35mm lens. Part of the Lakeshore Series 3.
The current meme of the day is a post...
In this article, we discuss and examine the idea of a meme with theories, examples and reasoning. We concentrate on the memes generated in the blogosphere and in IT, leaving aside cultural and linguistic memes. We also examine the impact that memes have on web site traffic...