Comments on: Book Bloggers Appreciation Week 2009 http://footprintsaustralia.com/blog/2009/09/22/book-bloggers-appreciation-week-2009/ Behind the scenes at Footprints magazine Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:32:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Georgie http://footprintsaustralia.com/blog/2009/09/22/book-bloggers-appreciation-week-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-744 Georgie Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:38:46 +0000 http://footprintsaustralia.com/blog/?p=189#comment-744 Hen's Dancing is a fun read Janet! Thanks for this info on the appreciation site :-) Hen’s Dancing is a fun read Janet! Thanks for this info on the appreciation site :-)

]]> By: Webmaster http://footprintsaustralia.com/blog/2009/09/22/book-bloggers-appreciation-week-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-735 Webmaster Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:12:03 +0000 http://footprintsaustralia.com/blog/?p=189#comment-735 Thanks Ken for clearing that up for me :-) Thanks Ken for clearing that up for me :-)

]]> By: Ken Rolph http://footprintsaustralia.com/blog/2009/09/22/book-bloggers-appreciation-week-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-734 Ken Rolph Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:02:08 +0000 http://footprintsaustralia.com/blog/?p=189#comment-734 Meme is derived from the Greek mimos, a mime. From the same source we get mimic, mime, mimesis. Richard Dawkins created the word to make the point that cultural items like fashion, catchphrases, melodies or religions spread by people imitating each other. In general terms a meme is a cultural item equivalent to the gene in biology. However, some on the internet have used the term in a slightly different sense. http://thedailymeme.com/what-is-a-meme/ "In the context of web logs / 'blogs / blogging and other kinds of personal web sites it's some kind of list of questions that you saw somewhere else and you decided to answer the questions. Then someone else sees them and does them and so on and so on." Meme is derived from the Greek mimos, a mime. From the same source we get mimic, mime, mimesis. Richard Dawkins created the word to make the point that cultural items like fashion, catchphrases, melodies or religions spread by people imitating each other. In general terms a meme is a cultural item equivalent to the gene in biology. However, some on the internet have used the term in a slightly different sense.

http://thedailymeme.com/what-is-a-meme/
“In the context of web logs / ‘blogs / blogging and other kinds of personal web sites it’s some kind of list of questions that you saw somewhere else and you decided to answer the questions. Then someone else sees them and does them and so on and so on.”

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