What’s Next?

Blog memes are interesting, but the key idea of memes is they’re analogous to genes and not only replicate but evolve over time. But for the most part blog memes don’t evolve, they remain static as the Internet allows perfect replication. Let’s have a play around with that.

Here’s how it works, each person who answers a meme then creates a slight variation on it. The people they tag then have a choice of following the version answered before or the variation. They then create a variation on the one they choose and pass it on. Eventually it might change so much you could be reinfected with a descendant of your original meme without even realising it.

Here’s my meme to start it off: What’s an event or period in history you find interesting, but almost no one has heard?

The variation is: What’s an event happening in the world today that you find interesting, but almost no one’s heard of?

If this actually takes off, it might be a good idea if people note down the generation number of the meme in the post title.

I tag: The Religious Athiest, Oz Athiest and Life before Death.  If anyone else wants to jump in on this to get it rolling, feel free.

Who knows? It might never die.

Oh no, it seems a little while ago I was tagged with a blog meme AND I DID NOTHING WITH IT, seeing as being tagged is a sign that someone actually reads this thing (or just randomly picked me out of a blogroll…), this seems quite negligent of me. The goal of this meme is to pick out a combination of three Blogs that is unique to you, so here’s my picking:

Matthew Yglesias - Matt’s fantastic blog at The Atlantic is a must read if you’re following US Politics.

Jane in Progress - Did you watch Buffy? Do you watch BSG? If so you’ve seen something written by the amazing script writer Jane Espenson. In between tibbits about life in the industry, her blog is full of detailed tips and examples on story and script writing.

F-Word - A site that takes the ridiculous notion that, just maybe, women count as human beings and draws out those truth-telling cases (sadly too common) where not only people seem to disagree with this, but no one seems to care that much about it.

As I’m bringing this up faar past date, I’m not going to tag forward. Instead I’ll repay the world with a new meme later, have fun!