Comments on: Mike Industries: Where Memes Come To Die https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/01/where-memes-come-to-die A running commentary of occasionally interesting things — from Mike Davidson. Thu, 26 May 2016 06:34:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Four Things Meme https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/01/where-memes-come-to-die#comment-33114 Thu, 29 May 2008 17:06:31 +0000 #comment-33114 […] been busy) Patatomic tagged me with this meme. Although this meme has probably already made it to Mike Industries: Where Memes Come To Die, I’m answering it […]

]]> By: Chris https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/01/where-memes-come-to-die#comment-9987 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-9987 Don, I feel your pain.

Meme? Please, pretend I know nothing of this interweb. Explain.

]]> By: Ben https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/01/where-memes-come-to-die#comment-9999 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-9999 Hi I’m a scientist from the UK, i found your site a couple of weeks ago, Mike, while researching mp3 subscription sites and it helped me make my decision. I look forward to surveying your blog regularly as a good source of both information and intelligent thought.
As to the question of memes, and i think the analogy to chain mail is pretty spot on: the really annoying ones are the petitions to free women from slavery in Burma, or to stop sending GM crops to the third world. I can just about ignore the ones that are just people being thoughtlessly sociable, but the ones with emotive hooks really put my back up.

]]> By: jmkogut https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/01/where-memes-come-to-die#comment-9998 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-9998 Yeah, thanks. If I see another blogger post another “4 things” meme with more lame answers, I’ll run a DoS attack on said blogger.

One more thing: Do we get a reciept for your services? (gotta keep track of those activities you know)

]]> By: Dustin Diaz https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/01/where-memes-come-to-die#comment-9997 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-9997 Hey, can you take care of rumors too? I’d like to stomp on the one about Microsoft buying Yahoo! – that’s just dumb.

]]> By: omit https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/01/where-memes-come-to-die#comment-9996 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-9996 Yay! I love backlash. A tip: if it’s something that might be on LiveJournal, avoid it.

]]> By: Scott https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/01/where-memes-come-to-die#comment-9995 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-9995 Mike is clearly offering a valueable service – disposing of countless memes. But by “passing off” your meme to Mike, he’ll be getting tons of links to his blog. Good thinkin’ Mike.

]]> By: Hauke Rehfeld https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/01/where-memes-come-to-die#comment-9994 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-9994 Finally – Thank you! This four things thing is getting really, really annoying.

]]> By: Dennis Bullock https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/01/where-memes-come-to-die#comment-9993 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-9993 Thank goodness I sat on the 4 Things for a few days before I felt that I should post it. It feels so good that we can depend on Mike Industries to properly do away with our tags.

]]> By: kevin https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/01/where-memes-come-to-die#comment-9992 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-9992 All I have to say is – THANK YOU.

Half my feeds over the last couple days were everybody going on about that “Four Things” stuff.

I don’t really care that you were a waiter at an italian restaurant once in your life – I do care that you occiasionally write some interesting content about design, technology, and culture. So please do that instead.

]]> By: Sean S https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/01/where-memes-come-to-die#comment-9991 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-9991 I wasn’t going to comment until I read about “play angst.”

Where’d you learn such a skill, and can I learn too? I have several things I could use it on … especially lately with the whole Web 2.0 thing.

Do share.

]]> By: Mike D. https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/01/where-memes-come-to-die#comment-9990 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-9990 Don and Chris: A “meme” in this case is basically a chain letter in the form of a blog post. Someone posts something on their blog listing something like “My four favorite movies” and then passes the “meme” off to you and three other people. It’s pretty innocuous until 9 out of 10 posts in your RSS reader are meme posts.

Matthew: It’s not real angst… just play angst. I don’t really mind memes too much. Just thought I’d say something on behalf of all the people who have read about 1000 of the current one going around.

]]> By: Dave https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/01/where-memes-come-to-die#comment-9989 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-9989 thakn you thank you!!! I hate that seeing that crap

]]> By: Matthew Oliphant https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/01/where-memes-come-to-die#comment-9988 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-9988 The meme spreads because people want to be involved in it. If they don’t, they don’t.

I guess I don’t understand the angst directed at people who are writing what they want to write about on their own sites.

But, it just depends on your point-of-view. Some memes can be helpful. Who wouldn’t want site after site talking about the four things they love to do with Newsvine.

]]> By: DaveMo https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/01/where-memes-come-to-die#comment-9974 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-9974 Hey I know!

List four memes you disposed of and then ask four other friends to list theirs!

Great idea, eh?

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