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	Meme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Different definitions of the meme generally agree, very roughly, that a meme consists of some sort of a self-propagating unit of cultural evolution having a resemblance to the gene (the unit of genetics).
		Memes supposedly have, as their fundamental property, evolution via natural selection in a way very similar to Charles Darwin's ideas concerning biological evolution, on the premise that replication, mutation, survival and competition influence them.
		The original meme of Kellermann and his work on gun-related violent injury has generated a new meme, "Dr. Kellerman is a evil lying gun-grabbing enemy of freedom," by the classic genetic phenomenon of a deletion mutation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Viral_memes (7071 words)

	Viral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Viral phenomena are objects or patterns able to replicate themselves or convert other objects into copies of themselves when these objects are exposed to them.
		An object, even a non-material object, is considered to be viral when it has the ability to spread copies of itself or change other similar objects to become more like itself when those objects are simply exposed to the viral object.
		Memes are possibly the best example of viral objects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Viral (175 words)

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		All these are memes (or conglomerations of memes), because they are copied from person to person and vie for survival in the limited space of human memories and culture.
		The appearance of memes is not the first time such concurrent evolution has occurred: something similar must have taken place in the earliest stages of life on earth, when the first replicating molecules developed in the primeval soup and evolved into DNA and all its associated cellular replication machinery.
		Memes are best thought about not by analogy with genes but as new replicators, with their own ways of surviving and getting copied.
	www.susanblackmore.co.uk /SciAm00.html (3313 words)

	Memetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Since the individual who transmitted the meme will continue to carry it, the transmission can be interpreted as a replication: a copy of the meme is made in the memory of another individual, making him or her into a carrier of the meme.
		Examples of memes in the animal world are most bird songs, and certain techniques for hunting or using tools that are passed from parents or the social group to the youngsters (Bonner, 1980).
		Memes undergo processes of variation (mutation, recombination) of their internal structure.
	pespmc1.vub.ac.be /memes.html (1118 words)

	Memetics Symposium-Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Like their biological counterparts, memes are presumed to be shaped by a process of variation and selection (Heylighen, 1996) in which the most fit variations are more likely to be replicated and hence retained in the population while the less fit variations dwindle and eventually die out.
		Meme complexes have the interesting property of not-only over-extending our (human) cogent moment (Stan Salthe's diction), which would be not very unusual, since stars and galaxies also over-extend that, but all the while "in-forming" the very base of our cognitions.
		The concept of a "meme", linked as it is to behavioral patterns replicated by imitation, although of some use in the study of human societies (fashions and technological innovations do spread by imitation), is not adequate for the study of linguistic phenomena, where patterns are replicated by obligatory repetition (i.e.
	pespmc1.vub.ac.be /Conf/MemeticsAbs.html (11227 words)

	World Peace
		But lots of memes, such as religion, have discovered the trick self-defense: viral memes such as religion in particular dig in at a very low level and prevent other memes from taking hold by rejecting conflicting ideas.
		If this method were unchecked, viral memes would have already occupied every available brain and reached a standstill, spreading only by biological means as neither would surrender any ground.
		But since viral memes cannot gain ground from each other directly, the only way to occupy more brains is to enhance the reproductive chances of its hosts.
	www.seldo.com /articles/worldpeace.php (1557 words)

	Forty Media - Phoenix, Arizona Web Design - Viral marketing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Viral marketing is a form of promotion in which a person who enjoys the object or service being promoted refers his or her friends, family, and even strangers to it.
		In viral marketing campaigns, it is not uncommon for sites to become so quickly popular that they exceed their bandwidth quotas or overload their servers.
		Many have carefully crafted websites that are custom-designed to become instant memes, but which fail miserably; others have developed sites without ever intending for them to be seen by other than a handful of people, but which have caught on unintentionally and become famous around the world.
	www.fortymedia.com /viral-marketing.fhtml (1109 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Temple > House of Leaves is a viral meme
		The word "meme", is parallel to the word "gene" and likens the spreading of ideas to that of the spreading of genes.
		Memes are the fundamental replicating units of cultural evolution.
		Memes represent the basic building block of culture in the same way the gene is the basic building block of biological life.
	www.barbelith.com /topic.php?id=2079 (2898 words)

	Memes by Susan Blackmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Viral memes make this clear, but remember that they are probably in the minority.
		Memes are not digital, do not come in units, do not physically exist, and are inherited in Lamarckian fashion - therefore memes don't exist (or memetics is invalid or memes are a meaningless metaphor etc. etc.).
		Memes are copied by the messy and complicated activities of human brains and human behaviours.
	www.ukpoliticsmisc.org.uk /usenet_evidence/memes.htm (7083 words)

	The Redefinition of Memes: Ascribing Meaning to an Empty Cliché
		With this definition, memes are repackaged as symbols and their impact on management is not that of a viral contagion but rather as an indicator of success and change in environmental niches.
		Memes can be short-lived due to the failure of their communicative efficacy or the failure of the niche they represent or both.
		Memes would be studied for their catalytic roles and managers would be taught sensitivity to the conditions that aid and hinder the evolution of such catalysts.
	jom-emit.cfpm.org /2004/vol8/lissack_mr.html (6672 words)

	Viral Marketing on the Web
		Memes could certainly be used for worthy purposes, but they clearly could be, and are, used to play tricks with people's minds.
		Because the only real way to innoculate against memes that circumvent our better judgment is to take something out of the package, look it over under good light and really see it and evaluate it on the merits before we buy it or pass it on to a friend.
		Memes got started because they served a purpose, like little 'macro' scripts for the brain that speed up reaction when there's a clear danger or reward that needs to be dealt with, not pondered over.
	viral-power.blogspot.com (2627 words)

	Memes and Schemes
		When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.
		A meme that invokes an emotion like "John loves Marsha" is one that may spread faster and easier, but it is still not viral because it does not spread everywhere.
		A true viral meme is one that will evoke an emotion in everyone that receives it, that is strong enough to want them to spread the meme to all of their friends.
	members.cox.net /xocxoc/philosophy/scheme2.htm (1745 words)

	Meme Central - Memes, Memetics, and Mind Virus Resource
		Memes are contagious ideas, all competing for a share of our mind in a kind of Darwinian selection.
		As memes evolve, they become better and better at distracting and diverting us from whatever we'd really like to be doing with our lives.
		Memes are the basic building blocks of our minds and culture, in the same way that genes are the basic building blocks of biological life.
	www.memecentral.com (785 words)

	Examples of memes \| viral-meme.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Epic poems; used to be important memes for preserving oral history, although they have largely been killed off by writing.
		The concept of memes is itself a meme.
		Movies are very memetic given their mass replication, causing people to imitate a huge number of things they observe in them such as saying "You can't handle the truth" from A Few Good Men or "Alllllllrighty then" from Ace Ventura, even if they have not seen the movies themselves.
	viral-meme.info /node/15 (641 words)

	2.10: Meme, Counter-meme
		The Nazi-comparison meme, I'd decided, had gotten out of hand - in countless Usenet newsgroups, in many conferences on the Well, and on every BBS that I frequented, the labeling of posters or their ideas as "similar to the Nazis" or "Hitler-like" was a recurrent and often predictable event.
		A "meme," of course, is an idea that functions in a mind the same way a gene or virus functions in the body.
		And an infectious idea (call it a "viral meme") may leap from mind to mind, much as viruses leap from body to body.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/2.10/godwin.if_pr.html (942 words)

	Soul In Code: Memes Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Viral Media....this one's a labor of love with a growing group of dedicated artists looking to enable change and further artworks.
		Viral Media is the second stage of our first successful project, the Saul Williams "Not In My Name" EP which was release in the Europe on Ninja Tune, in th US on Synchronic Records.
		Viral Media questions the status quo, encouraging education and organization via the networked spread of media coded with subculture.
	www.soulincode.com /archives/cat_memes.html (6524 words)

	The "be happy" and "make others happy" memes \| viral-meme.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The "be happy" and "make others happy" memes
		This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
		A meme (rhymes with "dream", but comes from memetic and memory) is a unit of information that replicates from brains or retention systems, such as books, to other brains or retention systems.
	viral-meme.info /node/16 (286 words)

	Synthesis
		Incidentally, the term 'meme' derives from the traditional, pre-language method of meme transmission, from the Greek for 'imitation'.
		The framework I have attempted to elucidate here, that ideas are memes, biological entities which behave exactly like genes, permits a fresh analysis of language and philosophy in which words and propositions are tied into a 'central dogma'.
		Language, and memes in general, though created by the infant, are shaped by imitation, by the conditioning of parents, and by the conditioning of nature.
	website.lineone.net /~robert-scantlebury/synthesis.html (6961 words)

	Viral marketing
		Media Virus in viral marketing is not just a spam e-mail, as most people tend to think.
		Viral or meme marketing is creative marketing, these viruses can be started in order to greatly benefit the products they relate to, without big marketing budgets.
		Memes can be words, such as Lean Cuisine or "Remember the Alamo," or they can be images, such as the Red Cross or Betty Crocker.
	www.saunalahti.fi /jawap/link/viral.html (988 words)

	Memetics papers on the web
		Memes: Myths, Misunderstandings and Misgivings" (1998): "[The] spectrum of possibilities, from the unwitting, unconscious hosting of culture-borne viruses (of all 'attitudes') to the foresightful design and promulgation of inventions and creations that intelligently and artfully draw upon well-understood cultural resources, must be viewable under a single, unifying perspective."
		Memes and the persistence of organizational structures" Symposium on Memetics: EMIT (1998): Uses the analogy of the cell and its genetic material to describe the organization and its parts.
		Meme X" (1996): "Memes are thought-chains that propagate and compete in the cultural environment...
	users.lycaeum.org /~sputnik/Memetics (6434 words)

	urticator.net - Bundling and Evangelism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the things about memes is that they are often found bundled together with other memes.
		Here's what to me is the canonical example, from On Viral Sentences and Self-Replicating Structures.
		As a real-life example, here's a nice bundling meme from Light on Yoga.
	www.urticator.net /essay/0/66.html (137 words)

	Viral Memes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is a call to action, and it does not really matter whether it is true or not, something has to be done about those darn rich.
		This is what is often referred to as the viral meme.
		The whole scheme is built around the viral meme of, "The Bourgeois is exploiting the Proletariat." This is just a fancy way of saying the rich have too much money, a sentiment still powerful today.
	members.cox.net /xocxoc/philosophy/viralmemes.htm (370 words)

	ipedia.com: Zero Wing Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It gave rise to the viral memes " All your base are belong to us "...
		It gave rise to the viral memes "All your base are belong to us", "move 'zig'", "for great justice" and "somebody set up us the bomb".
		It seems to be notable only for giving rise to these memes, as the game is merely a standard sideways scrolling shooter.
	www.ipedia.com /zero_wing.html (351 words)

	Cerulean Sanctum: A Plague of Viral Green Memes
		Cerulean Sanctum: A Plague of Viral Green Memes
		So we have some familiarity with the green movement and the figures it uses to whip up hysteria.
		The latest viral meme to hit some Christian Web sites (those that tend to lean more left than right) takes the form of this link to My Footprint.
	www.dedelen.com /2005/07/plague-of-viral-green-memes.html (2599 words)

	Ross Mayfield's Weblog: socialsoftware
		The grassroots energy of the newest media will undoubtedly triumph in form, but there is a danger that the function doesn't inherit support for the public interest.
		He's right again, but organic, web-like organizations don't fit corporate structure, so we'll see those networks grow outside and around the new tools as they're fitted into the mainstream--and see additional tools (maybe FOAF?) radiate out from their hub.
		RSS is a friend of the user, our viral growth and addictiveness is a proof point.
	ross.typepad.com /blog/socialsoftware/index.html (9258 words)

	extropians: By Author (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Re: the meme war (Thu Jul 19 2001 - 05:30:24 MDT)
		Re: the meme war (Fri Jul 20 2001 - 09:45:17 MDT)
		Re: the meme war (Thu Jul 19 2001 - 11:05:12 MDT)
	lists.extropy.org /exi-lists/extropians.3Q01/author.html (11903 words)

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