blog memes

Drew made me aware of a new meme that "has legs" and is catching on, called the Face Behind the Blog Blog Meme which, according to Drew, is "one meme I didn't see on your blog that I actually think is pretty interesting is the one where professional bloggers post personal pictures (with family etc) on their blog. I think it's called other faces or something. But, it's actually gotten some legs and seems to keep growing." Well, Drew is an expert, so I believe him...

I hate the "8 things" meme but I also think this particular meme has brought memetics to the fore of popular culture. I especially love it when I find a mutation of the original meme, "what I am trying to tell you is this.

I just discovered a pretty useful blog meme, Top Ten Elearning Tools Meme. What does it do? This meme is all about sharing your process: what software applications you use to make your life as a teacher easier. Very cool. I always want to know what other folks have installed and how they use them. Cool and useful.

Meme from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies:

I was looking around at some of the Internet memes known as blog memes and I found one called 47 Channels, which is just out of control in terms of intimate things and just the fire hose of questions. I wonder how these simple "getting to know you" games can result in identity theft?

I found a pretty cool new blog meme that I might even try, if I can think of all the computers I have owned, the Computing History Meme:

"Tag you’re it. Please list your personal history of computers (input and output devices other than just a calculator) that you’ve owned/used. Feel free to add comments. Be sure to link back to this post so we have some provenance that links our posts together.

1978 Apple II+

Blog memes AKA Internet memes are spreading and mutating like wild fire... here is one called "Literary Romantic Meme"

Via Chris Garrett on New Media, "Blog Memes, what are they? I just got tagged
with another Meme. Last time I mentioned Memes I got a bunch of emails
asking what they were, so before answering this Meme let’s clear up what a blog meme is, shall we?"

From the QuixtarBlog, "A blog meme is a type of Internet meme that requires active participation by the blogger and rarely traces back to an originating source. It's often a series of questions that a blogger answers to share some personal perspective or experience on random topics."

"Here are a few examples of popular blog memes: