Hello all,
After years of foundering, I have tried my best to revive memes.org,
http://www.memes.org, as the same sort of neutral resource for
cultural content and discussion it was back in 1999-2005.
Here's the stated mission:
"The mission of Memes.org is to look at culture, religion, science,
entertainment, technology, politics, government, conspiracy, the
environment, and the Internet through the lens of memes and memetics -
seriously but with a sense of humor. This site is collaborative and
will succeed or fail based on our participation. Memes.org is by us,
for us. You are encouraged to register and start participating."
Cheers,
Chris
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| Title: Re: Memes.org is Born Again |
05 Aug 2007 10:53:44 AM |
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On Aug 1, 11:56 am, Chris Abraham <cabra...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
After years of foundering, I have tried my best to revivememes.org,http://www.memes.org, as the same sort of neutral resource for
cultural content and discussion it was back in 1999-2005.
Here's the stated mission:
"The mission ofMemes.orgis to look at culture, religion, science,
entertainment, technology, politics, government, conspiracy, the
environment, and the Internet through the lens of memes and memetics -
seriously but with a sense of humor. This site is collaborative and
will succeed or fail based on our participation.Memes.orgis by us,
for us. You are encouraged to register and start participating."
Cheers,
Chris
I love memes and memetics. Back in the day, 1999, Memes.org started as
a virtual community much like the Well, http://web.archive.org/web/19991009202002/http://memes.org.
It was pretty cool and had a following. Later, I turned it into one of
the earlier collaborative blogs, 2001, http://web.archive.org/web/20010515223431/http://memes.org.
Actually, Memes.org was covered by Boing Boing in 2001,
http://www.boingboing.net/2001/11/14/memesorg_attempting_.html, and in
the NYTimes as well,
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/26/arts/26meme.html?ex=1256529600&en=f7984c657b13f0e3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt.
Well, then it was over. The dark ages came, Memes.org became crap. No,
I am attempting to revive the site using the same sort of format, "by
us, for us," but with newer, cooler, tools. Here's the mission:
Anyone can register, http://memes.org/user/register, anyone can post,
http://memes.org/node/add/blog, and only the community can judge
content as being good or bad. There's a "flag this" button as well as
tools for voting, using off the shelf Drupal tools, for now.
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