Plaintive Plea

[drscott]

Can we have a no-meme June, too?

Comments

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

I'm all for that, although no-meme May didn't work too well!

Congrats on not getting on the ECR board. I'm sure they'll use your energies for convention!

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

I feel so used.

I don't really mean no memes. But it was nice when less than half the posts on my friends list were inane repeats of "you are..." with the same three or four pictures. Unless it's accompanied by some fun and/or insightful stuff written by the poster.

But that's just me being cranky.

[rootbeer1.livejournal.com]

I did my part in May ... I'll do my part in June.

You could always start your own no-meme meme ... maybe something like "Monday is for Memes" or "Meme Only on Monday"?

(Monday's not the best day for it, but the alliteration might help it catch on.)

[dakoopst.livejournal.com]

Heh....good luck with THAT particular wish...

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Alliteration always aids attention.

Memes are actually useful when they act to catalyze your own writing. It'd be better if people didn't overuse them, but like "water your lawn every other week" any simple rule is too rigid. I was just being provocative. :)

[handlebear.livejournal.com]

I did my part for May. I like the Idea of memes on one day a week, maybe on a weekend day?

[orange-groves.livejournal.com]

Like Peace, No-Memes begin at home....

(grin)

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

As you point out, No-memes are themselves memes, or meta-memes. I think I'm starting to smoke like one of those Star Trek computers confronted with a paradox.

I think I did two memes in May. So I'm not perfect...

[barak.livejournal.com]

*sly grin*

Whats a meme?

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

[serious bastard that I am, I quote:]

In his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", Richard Dawkins introduced an entity known as a meme.

Memes are entities that primarily inhabit human minds (but you can find them in other places as well). To express it simply, a meme is an idea. Some modern day examples of memes are musical phrases, jokes, trends, fashions, car designs, and poetry. Any thought or idea that has the capacity to replicate is a meme. A well used example of a meme is the first four notes of Beethoven's 5th symphony. Another example is the "Happy Birthday" song. These are ideas that inhabit our minds and have been very successful at replicating. Not only have these memes found their way into literally millions of minds, they have also managed to leave copies of themselves on paper, in books, on audiotape, on compact disks, and in computer hard-drives.

From here.

The LJ "meme" is a subset.