It works really well. Followers can follow your teachings to the Tee. Once you join the community you can see when new posts, comments, and other social media actions are performed.

Having everything syndicated under one social network aggregation platform allows you total control and helps you be the Urban legend in charge of your Army.

http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/igorthetroll/

but seriously, i agree, many marketers misuse terms that originate in science and culture, i don’t think that means marketing kills meaning inherently, and i’m working to bring back real science into marketing.

to paraphrase Susan Blackmore the question of the lamarkian nature of memetic evolution is best left un-asked because it pre-supposes a direct biology-culture congruence which does not exist.

the exact unit of a meme is also an irrelevant question, what is the exact unit of a gene?

Once words like “meme” and “paradigm” and worse, “virus” get into the hands of marketers, the end of their meaningfulness has almost arrived. Last of course are politicians who always need metaphors to cover their malfeasance.

Dawkins, unfortunately, pushes the “gene : meme” analogy beyond credibility. To be brief: evolution is guided by natural selection (darwinian evolution); conceptual change is guided by lamarkian “evolution.”

Personally, I was saddened to see that the great mythology of Sumer had at last descended among swine. As another mythological construct supposedly said, “Do not cast your pearls before swine.”

And “me” is pronounced “may.” And, how many me in the average me containing meme? When is meme A = meme B?

If wide distribution and use of “meme” (like “paradigm”) makes the term more likely to enter the rubbish bin of language, that would be excellent. “Meme” is really me-aningless.

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