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| Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 | 10:29 pm
[evan]
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pasted ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) sto_vosem: a community of pictures of LJ users. Fantastic. | | Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 | 2:31 pm
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everyone's doing it ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) erik observes: "Rumsfeld stepping down" is the new "I'm posting this via LJTalk." | | Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 | 9:32 pm
[evan]
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another meta-joke
Q: How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: That's not funny! | | Thursday, May 11th, 2006 | 9:39 am
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anonymous confessions I feel like the "anonymous confessions" phenomenon is closer to a real meme than the "what kind of [x] am I?" quiz (how did those end up getting called memes, anyway?). The idea is simple: someone turns off IP logging, and writes something like, "Please tell me a secret, anonymously." I've seen it all over LJ, but apparently in the ucberkeley community this is a tradition. The spring confessions thread is nearing 3000 comments, some of which name names. (See also: http://grouphug.us/, of course.) | | Sunday, April 30th, 2006 | 6:08 pm
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how to be rich and famous One of the top search results for [how to be rich and famous] happens to be this blog post. It has attracted thousands of visitors and a thousand comments from people, mostly preteens, seeking fame and arguing why they're deserving of it. | | Wednesday, January 4th, 2006 | 11:22 pm
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| | Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006 | 5:39 pm
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| | Thursday, September 1st, 2005 | 11:18 am
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| | Monday, July 25th, 2005 | 3:39 pm
[bostonsteamer]
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| | Wednesday, July 6th, 2005 | 12:52 pm
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Girl on a bike: 5 years later Today is a really special day for bloggers. It's the five year anniversary of the "girl on a bike" story. Back in 2000, when one could keep up with pretty much every A-list blog, Meg Hourihan and Jason Kotke (Blogger employees) each posted an identical (fictional) account of how seeing a girl riding a bike brought back (fictional) childhood memories. Metafilter went nuts with theories, from "blogger glitch" to "secret code" (it also used to be possible/palatable to read all the metablogs). The fact was that nobody had seen anything like this before. And then something unusual happened. Other people started posting the story. Tom Coates (the first Girl on a Bike copycat) droped the semantic bomb on all of us It's not the chain letter, and the best thing about all of this is that it's not collusion either. It's just organic meme-growth. It looked like an interesting thing to do (post exactly the same thing as someone else - it was already replicated once when I saw it anyway), particularly as it is such a "personal" experience. When I came to it, and it was only on two sites, I already knew that I wasn't going to be able to tell which one of them had the "genuine experience" - and so I followed my instincts and decided that it being genuine was completely irrelevant. And so I posted it as well. Lots of other people obviously felt the same way, because it's all over the place now. What followed was the sound of thousands of dictionaries opening. Few had ever heard the word "meme" before, and nobody had seen it applied to blogging. Hell, I didn't even learn how to pronounce it for another year. Fast forward 5 years: blog usage has grown faster than exponentially, and the word "meme" has been diluted to mean "content you post that isn't original", such as questionaires and online personality tests. It's fun to look back on the old days of blogging, when everyone was so wide-eyed and naive. People really opened their hearts so their readers could take a look inside. Every blogger had the same "coming of age", where they'd post something that hurt another person, and after the fallout they'd realize, "hey, what I blog about really does affect my meatspace life." [x-posted from me] | | Tuesday, May 24th, 2005 | 2:28 pm
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more emotion Random news article: "At the risk of being cliché, their set emitted more emotion than LiveJournal." Aside from the terrible word choice ("emitted"?), does this mean "more emotion than LiveJournal" is a cliché? | | Saturday, April 30th, 2005 | 2:34 pm
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| | Tuesday, April 5th, 2005 | 9:30 pm
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pictures of picturetakers Also via Mako: Today, Mika and I went to visit central park to see it under some freshly fallen snow. Rather than take pictures of the gates, which everybody does, we decided to (sneakily) take pictures of the people taking pictures of the gates.
We're calling the resulting photo-documentary Picturesque: Picture of Pictures of the Gates. | 9:16 pm
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| | Monday, March 21st, 2005 | 9:11 am
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lj history My friend Ryan, user #1674, wrote a history of LJ from his perspective on his five year LJ anniversary. It's sorta LJ history but, in true LJ style, also personal history. Back in the day we all got usernames like evan, patrick, carley, etc. | | Monday, March 14th, 2005 | 3:21 pm
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gothic lolitas The New York Times comments on the "Gothic and Lolita fashion" phemonenon, and how the egl community feels about it. | | Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005 | 12:41 pm
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Weblog Tools Market Share Great article with lots of pretty graphs about the blogging market. With the acquisition of LJ, Six Apart has a 40% market share (LJ, Movable Type, Typepad). Google's Blogger is a close 2nd with 35%, but it's growing faster.  One interesting tidbit about the growth of blogs in general, which should make Moore pretty jealous: "Technorati has been showing a doubling of the blogs it tracks every 5 months or so, or 120% every 6 months." | | Tuesday, February 1st, 2005 | 3:01 pm
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| | Sunday, January 16th, 2005 | 10:37 am
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| | Friday, January 7th, 2005 | 11:00 am
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