The Daily Meme

What is a meme? It is a term borrowed from evolutionary biology. Used in an internet context, the definition (taken from wikipedia) is:

“An Internet meme is a piece of digital content that spreads rapidly, widely, and organically from person to person on the internet. The term is a reference to memes as virus-like self-replicating packets of information.”

So, if you are keen to spend time exploring this phenomenon there is a brilliant portal where a new meme is posted each day. It is run by Gary La Pointe, who has his own blog here.

The portal points to many sites where you will find memes. Many of them take the form of ‘5 questions’ or ’10 favourites’ and spread using internet tag. I’ve answered this one, now I name 5 other bloggers and ask them to do it too. A bit like a blogging chain letter.

[from the ‘Things I found’ archive]