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memes
A collection of 5 posts
What would happen if journalists got the hell off Facebook?
Mathew Ingram wrote a typically interesting and provocative post last week, asking if the news industry should just get the hell off of Facebook. Are the benefits we accrue, diminishing though they are, worth the price we, and society as…
Rise of the Memeocracy — and its cost
We reward the ability to win attention with fame, validation and money. But that comes with a psychological price.
Understanding the meme
Abby Rabinowitz, writing for Nautilus about memes: But trawling the Internet, I found a strange paradox: While memes were everywhere, serious meme theory was almost nowhere. Richard Dawkins, the famous evolutionary biologist who coined the word “meme” in his classic…
Giphy starting to rank Gifs by popularity
Giphy wants to tell you how dank1 your memes are: You can see view counts for every GIF from an official Artist or Partner. When you visit an official Artist or Partner’s Channel, you can now also see how…