Memes, Raining Like Chocolate. April 6, 2009 in Uncategorized. Memes become so popular that they even become marketable. Breathe, Tay, and take in the 15 minutes.

The metaphor I chose to write on is something that I have been interested in recently dealing with food. While exploring the CarpSoft Corporate Solutions wesbite.

Invented the idea of the meme. Examples include any idea that catches on and is replicated or copied. These phenomena are sometimes cultural icons or inside jokes. Examples include shorthand typing like O RLY. Incidentally, LOL is a palindrome. The same forwards as it is backwards. Examples of memes may also include a reference to an online video, like Leeroy Jenkins. Which is still an ongoing joke reference in my household. So what about the offensive and.

In a true tribute to Web 2. 0 it took me about an hour to read just seven pages of the Wikipedia article. Every link he provided, I followed. When something in the article caught my interest, I, almost ironically, looked it up on Wikipedia. It can raise some questions about the truth of the information. Who, by the way, is delightful to follow on Twitter.

So really, anything that has a huge popularity online is a meme, whether it is a MySpace. I think memes, such as the one above, can be utilized in the classroom to promote critical analysis and prompt reflective writing. What do you think? Podcasts in the Classroom.

Instead of just the boring old journal topic.

Responses to things discussed in ENG 3241.

Thanks to my neighbor Lindsey, I now understand what memes are. The internet phenomenon is anything that catches on as an inside joke or part of pop culture. It seems that memes are taking over our lives. From our facebooking addictions to our at home reading of Twilight and other popular novels. What I am wondering is what happens when memes ultimately fail? March 23, 2009.