Scott Kaufmann‘s trying to measure the speed of memes.
If you’d like to help out, follow these steps, and I quote:
1. Write a post linking to this one in which you explain the experiment. (All blogs count, be they TypePad, Blogger, MySpace, Facebook, &c.)
2. Ask your readers to do the same. Beg them. Relate sob stories about poor graduate students in desperate circumstances. Imply I’m one of them. (Do whatever you have to. If that fails, try whatever it takes.) [I have no sob stories: do it if you want to?]
3. Ping Technorati.
He’ll be reporting on what he finds at the forthcoming MLA convention.
Via Bitch Ph.D.
Addendum: The View From Elsewhere has a nice definition of the meme:
…I suspect their appeal lies in the combination of some of a blogger’s primary preoccupations: communicating something about yourself in order to connect with other bloggers…while at the same time not communicating more than is necessary or is wise about yourself.
(Although some memes can be pretty revealing!)
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