Comments on: Attention is meme sex (and Google is a dating service)

By: crisi

crisi — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

damnit, oh yes… it’s stan’s time in germany now!!
i hope you’ll find the time to come by in osnabrück. lots of stories&secrets to tell, and a lot of interest in hearing your stories. and always a good döner, and these days even blessed with beautiful weather.
come by.
crisi

By: Vera Bass

Vera Bass — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Analogies are great …the fact that they can be dangerous is part of the fun… and I’m enjoying this one.

Not to be a wet blanket but can I take your analogy to relationships? I’m picturing the meme alone as just the sound bite, the Google Buys YouTube headline, and your concept of its viral reproduction is working fine for me. When you or I start talking to someone about it in depth, though, it has created a new entity between the conversationalists. If there’s a maximum number of such entities in any relationship, then the current meme can be just taking over an existing one, but how about when it triggers the expansion of a new relationship? This idea is part of why I believe that after the World Is Flat comes a new Multi Dimensional World.

…back to scheduled programming (sex) now…

Vera

By: Chris Saad

Chris Saad — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I love this idea - manual trackback:
http://www.touchstonelive.com/blog/2007/01/attention-is-meme-sex.html

By: stan

stan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

The perfect quote for this:

Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television. -Gore Vidal, quoted by Bob Chieger, Was It Good For You, Too? (1983) ^

Sex = biological reproduction (Getting your genes out there.) Television = meme reproduction (Getting your memes out there.) Of course, now everyone can be on television (YouTube) or in print (blogging) or radio (podcasting). A whole lotta memes are getting busy. Wish I had thought of it at the time!