Neomeme

Explaining the name of this blog(in response to multiple questions), and also stumbling upon its purpose. Not bad:

I came across this lengthy yet fascinating post about memes today. It’s very well-researched and thought provoking, and definitely worth a read. Coincidentally, the same day I completed Metal Gear Solid 2, which adresses much of the same topics and came across this in-depth analysis of its multilayered ending. The concept of the Internet meme, as the term is used in this blog, is nothing new. Even Scoble has written about memes. A meme, as used here, is simply a single intangible unit of information. Digital technology redefines memes because anyone can create and distribute one with unprecendeted ease.

Armed with all of this reading, I have finally come up with a single summary, a mission statement for this blog: The purpose of this blog is to explore the new kinds of memes the Internet and other emerging technologies create, and how they morph and travel in an increasingly social digital world.
The idea will be approached. Occasionally, unrelated content will slip in- this is my only blog, after all. But, overall, whether it’s instructions how to create a single piece of digital information(a password) or game a memetracker(digg), future posts will lie at least somewhat tangent to that topic, looking in at it through the lenses of tech, philosohy, psychology or, my favorite, social experiment. Quite a few interesting ideas I have yet to commit to (digital) paper, so stay tuned.