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MemeStreams | Post Haste

On the Champs-Élysées last week, the Publicis Groupe, the advertising heavyweight, opened Denuo (Latin for "anew"), with about 15 marketing futurists to spot new media and marketing technologies on behalf of clients, investors and, not least, Publicis itself.

Leading the futurists is Rishad Tobaccowala, a top executive in the media-buying division of Publicis who has led several of its digital advertising ventures and who will be based in Chicago. Among Denuo's other futurists are specialists on advertising through mobile phones and video games, as well as through viral marketing — spreading buzz by word of mouth and the Internet.

"Human beings can never be captured in an algorithm, and Google only understands algorithms," he said.

Deep inside the bowels of Publicis headquarters, a conversation is overheard:

Det. Thorn: It's people. MemeStreams is made out of people. They're making commercials out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like sitcoms for prime time. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!

Hatcher: I promise, Tiger. I promise. I'll tell the exchange.

Det. Thorn: You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You've gotta tell them! MemeStreams is people! We've gotta stop them somehow!

I think this may be the best slogan yet.

MemeStreams to be purchased by French ad giant

Choice is what enables all of us to live exactly the kind of lives we want to and think we should.

But this "wisdom" is suspect for two reasons. First, most Americans do not think that freedom is about exercising more and more choice. And second, even for those who do equate freedom with choice, having more choice does not seem to make them feel freer. Instead, Americans are increasingly bewildered — not liberated — by the sheer volume of choices they must make in a day.

Too many choices on the Web? Let the MemeStreams Agent make your choices for you.

(How's that for an elevator speech?)

American society has given the educated elites what they have asked for, and an increase in stress, anxiety and dissatisfaction has been a widespread result.

This is consistent with the survey that found Americans are working more but accomplishing less.

Is Freedom Just Another Word for Many Things to Buy?

I would like to request an additional feature for the MemeStreams site. It seems like it should be relatively straightforward to implement.

I'll explain with a use case. I want to revisit a particular date/time period in my stream. I recall some keywords from one notable entry in the neighborhood I'm seeking. I use these keywords to perform a search, either via Google or via the built-in search engine. I find the entry, but the only supplemental link I get is "Thread." What I want in addition is a pointer into my stream where that entry exists. As it is now, this information is a challenge to obtain. By default, Google hides the "pageNN" URL from the results, and even when you visit it, it's rarely accurate; it's "off" by the number of new posts since the Google Spider visited that particular page. In one example case, I found it to be more than two months off the mark.

This feature would appear along the footer on a search result entry. It would put the entry "in context" with the other posts from the same time period.

With combat deaths mounting in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Guard's traditional recruiters are running into resistance from people increasingly wary of slick sells and star-spangled television ads, Guard officials say. But a soldier talking to a friend, co-worker, or cousin can offer a credible, powerful, and personally tailored message, soldiers say.

"Word of mouth is the holy grail of marketing," Major Winfield S. Danielson III, a spokesman for the Massachusetts National Guard, said yesterday. "It's like when your friend says, 'Hey, that was a really cool movie.' There's a lot of believability in that. You look at it as an unbiased source, or at least biased to what your friend likes or your friend's interests are."

Maybe MemeStreams should go into MLM.

Uncle Sam Needs Memestreams | The Boston Globe

It's over, isn't it?

Thanks in advance.

Culture is a unique and fascinating aspect of the human species. How did it emerge and how does it develop?

Richard Dawkins suggested culture evolves and that memes are cultural replicators, subject to variation and selection in the same way as genes are in the biological world. Thus human culture is the product of a mindless evolutionary algorithm. Does this imply, as some have argued, that we are mere meme machines and that the conscious self is an illusion?

This highly readable and accessible book extends Dawkins's theory, presenting for the first time a fully developed concept of cultural DNA. Distin argues that culture's development can be seen as the result of memetic evolution and as the product of human creativity. Memetic evolution is perfectly compatible with the view of humans as conscious and intelligent.

This book should find a wide readership amongst philosophers, psychologists, sociologists and non-academic readers.

I also found a discussion thread which begins with a review of the book and includes replies from the author.

The Selfish Meme

The Supernova buzz has begun, and MemeStreams is the talk of the town.

"Going forward, trust (will be) the thing that makes the Internet possible. Reputation management will be more and more important."

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? How long do I have to wait?

Trust thy Internet neighbor

This service may speed up the process of enabling Google SiteMaps support for MemeStreams.

This tool is for creating Google sitemaps xml file for your server, to use with the google sitemaps program. Simply type in your domain name and our spider will fetch all the links on your page and create and xml file for you to upload onto your own website. Whats more its a free sitemaps generator and will extract up to 1000 links per domain, directory or links page.

SitemapsPal - Create Google Sitemaps Online

A few weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, an FBI agent called the Whitney Museum of American Art and asked to see a drawing on exhibit there. The piece was by Mark Lombardi, an artist who had committed suicide the year before. Using just a pencil and a huge sheet of paper, Lombardi had created an intricate pattern of curves and arcs to illustrate the links between global finance and international terrorism.

Something to listen to while you look through the year in graphs.

NPR : The 'Conspiracy' Art of Mark Lombardi