The Memespread Project. An attempt to chart the spread of a meme (in this case, a single Web page) across the Web from a single source (this here remaindered link). Spread the meme by linking to it.
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• Apr 08 2004 • 12:12AM
This is kinda lame. The meme is a meme is a meme is a meme is a blah blah blah. You're linking to a page whose whole point of existing is to be linked to. Create something original and track that meme instead.
• Apr 08 2004 • 12:24AM
Hm.. I'd say it's an 'authentic' meme even if in a twisted way.
• Apr 08 2004 • 3:36AM
I'm starting a meme for my birthday!
• Apr 08 2004 • 5:39AM
I'm going to start one for ak47.tv ...
• Apr 08 2004 • 10:00AM
wanka wanka wanka wanka wanka
• Apr 08 2004 • 12:08PM
It's like that scene in "White Noise" where people are taking pictures of the tourist trap "The Most Photographed Barn in America".
• Apr 09 2004 • 1:52PM
The Google ranking for the meme.php page (and subsequently the home page of arbesman.net, linked at the bottom) is going to explode. Not that many people really care about google rankings, but still.
• Apr 09 2004 • 3:20PM
I'm sure Sam Arbesman did this for a genuine scientific study but Stephen has also hit the nail on the head the Google PageRank for arbesman.net is going to go through the roof. Having achieved such a rank he could then profit from the Googlejuice by selling outbound links from the site.
• Apr 10 2004 • 12:49PM
More power to him, i guess. He's taking advantage of the obvious effect of the blogging community, and he seems to be the first with this particular gimmick.
• Apr 12 2004 • 12:09PM
White Noise ... great book.
This thread is closed to new comments. Thanks to everyone who responded.
disobey • Apr 07 2004 • 8:16PM
i challenge another blogger to make a page that copies the memespread exactly, but changes the named starting point... memejacked!