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Tuesday, March 18, 2003
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Weblogs as the meme machine -- Comment()
The idea of humans as meme machines was popularized by Susan Blackmore in her book The Meme Machine. However, to me this seems farfetched, and to some extend plainly wrong, when you realize the complexity of the human being as a whole, including the role of emotions and the body memory as well. Perhaps weblogs as a system function like a meme machine. Then humans are the operators of the meme machine. But weblogs currently function poorly: there is too much straight copying, and too little processing of the memes. A further problem is the short attention span in weblogs: many topics appear for only a day or two, and then disappear.
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Semantic Blogging for Bibliographies -- Comment()
Steve Cayzer at HP has a project titled Semantic Blogging for Bibliographies: "The central idea is to apply ideas, techniques and tools from the semantic web and apply them to blogging. Our intuition is that semantic principles can be applied to enrich and extend the blogging metaphor. We use the bibliography management domain to focus our efforts and to provide grounding for our demonstrator. [...] if we can show how the semantic web can add value, within the context of a pre-existing, popular and powerful metaphor, then it will make a convincing showcase for the semantic web." (via Radio Comments)
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