New York, July 31 (ANI): The White House is said to have “rickrolled” one of its Twitter followers who complained about a correspondence briefing being too boring.
“@wiggsd Sorry to hear that. Fiscal policy is important, but can be dry sometimes. Here’s something more fun: tinyurl.com/y8ufsnp #WHChat,” the New York Daily News quoted the White House tweet as saying.
July 31st, 2011
White House ‘rickrolls’ Twitter follower who complained about boring briefing
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July 13th, 2011
Memetics Definition
1 : an idea, belief or belief system, or pattern of behavior that spreads throughout a culture either vertically by cultural inheritance (as by parents to children) or horizontally by cultural acquisition (as by peers, information media, and entertainment media)
2 : a pervasive thought or thought pattern that replicates itself via cultural means; a parasitic code, a virus of the mind especially contagious to children and the impressionable
3 : the fundamental unit of information, analogous to the gene in emerging evolutionary theory of culture
– meme pool (n.) : all memes of a culture or individual
– memetic (adj.) : relating to memes
– memetics (n.) : the study of memes
4 : in blogspeak, an idea that is spread from blog to blog
5 : an internet information generator, especially of random or contentless information
(Etymology : meme : derived from the Greek mimëma, ‘something imitated’, by Richard Dawkins in 1976)
Taken from Urban Dictionary
http://www.urbandictionary.com/iphone/#define?term=meme
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June 21st, 2011
Göbekli Tepe | MetaFilter
“We come up with two new mysteries for every one that we solve,” he [Schmidt] says. Still, he has already drawn some conclusions. “Twenty years ago everyone believed civilization was driven by ecological forces,” Schmidt says. “I think what we are learning is that civilization is a product of the human mind.” – Charles C. Mann writes about Göbekli Tepe for National Geographic.
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June 13th, 2011
Redundant Collaboration – The Irony of Asking for Help and Creating More Work
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llaboration REQUIRES transparency (hence my push for a transparent news process) and that means taking the time to communicate to the public about where in the reporting process we are.
Collaboration requires communication – where physical proximity is lacking communication must excel.
Collaboration requires listening – an ability to absorb information sent back.
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