Monday, May 14, 2012

Memes

  • Noted astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson vs. Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann vs. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vs. a kitten with a Pop Tart for a body.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Memes are "the street art of the social web," says An Xiao Mina, a designer and artist in Los Angeles. But in China, a country that represses speech and the press, the lulz can turn deadly serious.
  • (niemanlab.org)
  • The conference held at M.I.T. was all about Internet memes, those repeated cultural touchstones. Here they came to life.
  • (New York Times Blogs)
  • The Big Bang Theory has received the highest rating of 1.87 million viewers from Australia for its 21 st episode, The Hawking Excitation, according to TV Tonight.
  • (Int'l Business Times)
  • The rapid changes sweeping the Arab world have all too often been attributed to the internet, with pundits crediting the uprisings to various social networks.
  • (The Guardian)
  • There's no parenting textbook that will entirely prepare you to raise a child. So, when your child goes viral on the Internet, even grown adults have no control over what gets shared.
  • (Mashable.com)
  • Paul Vasquez is a filmmaker who lives outside Yosemite National Park. He has never had a hit film or television show. He has never hosted a talk show or directed a commercial. But, at ROFLCon, Paul Vasquez is a celebrity.
  • (Boston Globe)
  • Im thinking about what Power actually is, abstractly and practically. Machiavelli did this centuries ago, but the memes he used are no longer applicable.
  • (DAILY KOS)
  • For their eight year anniversary, Gallery 1988 is honoring their favorite works with Memes, an art exhibition opening today which features over 100 artists devoting artworks to the internet phenomenons that made them LOL, ROLF or LMFAO.
  • (Huffington Post)

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