I Have Been Memed
(that’s pronounced “Meeemed, like “The Twins Creamed the Red Sox”)
This is the “Why Do You Blog Meme.” I have been nominated by Sterling W. Chip Camden, an independent software developer, as one of five lucky winners ( Alyx, Max, Greg, Eastwood, and Edward) to address this question.
I’ve decided to treat this like a list, a list of reasons why I blog:
- 1) Was I blogging? I thought this was a a new email program… You mean people can see this???
- 2) It’s like teaching, and I love teaching, but its better because I can’t tell when people are reading the newspaper, sleeping, making out, or just staring at me and giggling.
- 3) I blog because I love my readers. Every one of them. Especially the moronic yahoos and the miscreants
- 4) It’s the only legitimate medium in which I can use my favorite iconic image, the smiley face.
- 5) And most of all, I blog because I love being meemed, and I love meeming others.
And so, I nominate the following five bloggers to give us their version of an answer to the question:
Why do you blog?
Coturnix, why do you blog?
Dariana, why do you blog?
10,000 bird people, why do you’all blog?
Laelaps, why do you blog?
Trinifar, why do you blog?
Sarda, why do you blog?
Don, why do you blog?
(There are seven bloogers bloggers on the list because I’m using trackbacks and I can’t be sure that will reach all of them. And if five bloggers don’t take up the meme, something bad happens to everyone linked to on this post!)
History of the meme:
Chip passed it on to Alyx, Max, Me, Eastwood, and Edward.
Chip got it from Randy Morin, who also sent it to these folks:
… and originally, it came from somewhere around here:
- http://www.rexblog.com/2007/03/29/16719/
- http://artsycatsy.blogspot.com/2007/03/five-reasons-why-i-blog.html
- http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/03/the_value_why_i.html
Wow, being memed by someone for the first time is sort of like being back at your place at the end of a first date. Do you say good bye at the door or ask them in for a nightcap?
Well, lucky for both of us (perhaps!) I’ve got just the answer: http://trinifar.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/why-i-blog/
But since you been such a gentleman and I have a good time here at gregladen.com I’ll write a new post partially inspired by Chris http://faultline.org/index.php.....ing_blogs/
The important thing Trinifar is to include as many links as possible… Notice how many links my post had? Lots of links! Like a zillion of them…
I’m on my way out but I’ll look at your posts a bit later. Looking forward to it!
G.
That’s great, Greg! (looks up from the newspaper) Wow, you sure spread the link-love around!
[…] Ack! I’ve been memed! Wednesday April 04th 2007, 2:28 pm Filed under: Harmless (Mostly) Fun, Shameless Plug, CommunityAlthough I’ve never been a big fan of the term “meme,” it is fun to track the memes that occasionally crop up through the blogosphere, and Greg Laden has drawn me into one about why I spend so much time dumping the contents of my brain out onto the internet (it’s like a real-time recycle bin!). Hot on the heels of my own personal evolution in terms of evolutionary understanding, here’s my contribution to the “Why Do You Blog?” Meme, and in the spirit of carrying on successful mutations, I will treat it as a list being I inherited the meme from Greg. […]
“Why Do You Blog Meme”…
I got tagged with a meme by Greg who is trying to track the branching tree of this meme, so go check his post out (especially let him know if you do one of your own). He is also instructing……
[…] Greg responded to my tag on the “Why I Blog” meme. My favorite reason: […]
Everyone loves a miscreant, right?
My reponse (to the meme, not the miscreat question) is coming soon!
[…] I’ve been hit by the introspective “Why Do you Blog?” meme by Greg Laden, a most estimable and eponymous science blogger. The meme poses a simple question that begs a complex, potentially melodramatic response: Why do I blog anyway? […]
[…] I Have Been Memed at Greg Laden (tags: ibt4im blogging) […]
So far, this is the best summary of a blog meme I’ve seen:
Randy Charles Morin
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This is from:
http://www.soloseo.com/why-blog-meme.html
[…] Apr 8th, 2007 by Trinifar I have a queue of draft posts waiting to be finished, among them a response to being memed by Greg Laden and a post about the Mooney Nisbet paper Framing Science being published in the journal Science just after I discovered Nisbet’s Framing Science blog. So I’ve been hopping from one topic to another while finishing none. For a while it felt like effective multitasking, but Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post threw a wrench (”spanner” to those speaking a different dialect) into the works. […]
those are great reasons! And I love number 2!! LOL
I just saw this. I will put up a response tonight.
[…] A little while back Greg Laden tagged me with the Why Do You Blog Meme, and this seems like a great time to reply — at last. (Greg, I may be slow but now more people will see it.) […]
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I plan to check it out…
While the time I blog, I learn and I pass on the knowledge to my readers. I do believe I have limited brain storage. Hence, that’s why people do web log! Remember?