Entries tagged with: Memetics

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Ping

In London, not finding much time for writing. The Big Picture series will resume when I get back stateside. Some quick links: Of used futures and counterfactual clothing -- Stuart Candy, The Skeptical Futuryst ...it is with "used futures" that...

Posted on February 19, 2008 12:10 AM

Memetrackers

Here's a handy widget: Daylife Labs offers up a tool to build custom topic indexes, based on its own collection of thousands of RSS feeds from news sites and blogs. These Flash widgets track changes in the appearance of various...

Posted on February 1, 2008 8:38 PM

Global Guerilla Swag

As-Sahab is the media wing of Al Qaeda, the "network" used by all the current Al Qaeda videos put onto the web; as with nearly all modern video producers, their programs include a little "bug" logo in the lower right...

Posted on January 9, 2008 11:58 AM

Overton Window

The Overton Window is a memetic engineering concept in use among political wonks, but with broader applicability. Wikipedia describes it thusly: It describes a "window" in the range of public reactions to ideas in public discourse, in a spectrum of...

Posted on January 9, 2008 11:43 AM

The Pharyngula Mutating Genre Meme

There are a set of questions below that are all of the form, "The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is ...". Copy the questions, and before answering them, you may modify them in a limited way, carrying out no more...

Posted on October 10, 2007 4:02 PM

Must-Know Concepts for the 21st Century

My colleague at IEET, George Dvorsky, posted a list of concept about the future that he sees as vital for people who consider themselves to be intelligent to know and understand. His goal is admirable: too much of what passes...

Posted on December 31, 2006 1:14 PM

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