On Jul 31, 10:19 pm, Chris Abraham <cabra...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> After years of foundering, I have tried my best to revive
memes.org,http://www.memes.org,
as the same sort of neutral resource for
> cultural content and discussion it was back in 1999-2005.
>
> Here's the stated mission:
>
> "The mission of Memes.org is to look at culture, religion, science,
> entertainment, technology, politics, government, conspiracy, the
> environment, and the Internet through the lens of memes and memetics -
> seriously but with a sense of humor. This site is collaborative and
> will succeed or fail based on our participation. Memes.org is by us,
> for us. You are encouraged to register and start participating."
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
I love memes and memetics. Back in the day, 1999, Memes.org started as
a virtual community much like the Well,
http://web.archive.org/web/19991009202002/http://memes.org.
It was pretty cool and had a following. Later, I turned it into one of
the earlier collaborative blogs, 2001,
http://web.archive.org/web/20010515223431/http://memes.org.
Actually, Memes.org was covered by Boing Boing in 2001,
http://www.boingboing.net/2001/11/14/memesorg_attempting_.html,
and in
the NYTimes as well,
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/26/arts/26meme.html?ex=1256529600&en=f7984c657b13f0e3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt.
Well, then it was over. The dark ages came, Memes.org became crap. No,
I am attempting to revive the site using the same sort of format, "by
us, for us," but with newer, cooler, tools. Here's the mission:
Anyone can register, http://memes.org/user/register,
anyone can post,
http://memes.org/node/add/blog,
and only the community can judge
content as being good or bad. There's a "flag this" button as well as
tools for voting, using off the shelf Drupal tools, for now.
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