Internet meme

So, I have the term "meme" set up on Google Alerts. Guess what has become a widespread pandemic? The 8 things meme, that's what. Here are the rules, thanks to Blanket in the Grove:

1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
2. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
3. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
4. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

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.

This is bloody genius. I don't know if there is remotely a downside. And, it could be a lot of fun.

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?"

An Internet meme is a meme, a catchphrase or concept, that spreads from person to person on the Internet.