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The Button-meme Meme

Seems the button-meme meme simultaneously infected a few of us the other day.

Over at mod-pubsub, just the day before Scoble's post regarding the RSS button meme, we created a new button for use on pages/projects that utilize mod-pubsub, and introduced it in precisely the same way, as a meme. [If you don't know what mod-pubsub is, go check it out - in short, it is asynch pubsub using web standards, a very RESTian approach, enabling some message exchange patterns you may not have thought possible today on the web]

This may have been more than coincidence - I think there is some deeper magic at work beneath Microsoft's technology roadmap (especially Indigo), and what it means for web technology purists. More to come on this.

Posted: Nov 08 2003, 02:22 AM by randog | with 3 comment(s)

Comments

Stan Schultes said:

Would you mind expanding on how you are defining <i>meme</i> in this context?
# November 7, 2003 11:16 PM

Rand Anderson said:

Stan,
Well, in both cases (both parts of the post title), I simply meant it as a 'contagious idea': 1) In the first part of the title, in the sense that the button will be a recognizable symbol of the mod-pubsub technology, and by encouraging developers to display the button on pages that use mod-pubsub, we might expect that it will propagate further into the community; and 2) In the second part of the title, as a reference to the co-incidence (my post and Scoble's post) of the idea that these buttons are like memes.

Does that help?
# November 8, 2003 2:10 PM

TrackBack said:

^_^,Pretty Good!
# April 10, 2005 1:15 AM
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