Re: A memebank

From: Lawrence H. de Bivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Tue May 09 2000 - 15:20:26 BST

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    We worked on the design of such a memebank (I like the term!) but did not
    implement it given the time and effort that we concluded it would require
    to do it properly. Instead we tracked a handful of memes as best we
    could, with the goal of understanding better the properties of memes that
    affected their rate and intensity of spread. We also applied that with
    another tool we've developed (the Panetic Conflict model) to track and
    forecast the patterns of conflict in Bosnia and, now, Kossovo and
    Columbine (the Littleton, Colorado school shooting).

    Do you know other memebank efforts? It would be interesting to compare
    technical notes.

    Cheers,
    - Lawrence

    On Tue, 9 May 2000, Chris Klopper wrote:

    >Is there a case to be made for a memebank where circulating memes (the
    >'Elvis lives' meme)
    >can be registered, their intensity (getting stronger) be tracked or
    >commented (checked lately)
    >upon, categories or classes be identified/assigned etc.? Or have I missed
    >the fact that it is
    >already in splendid existence? (point me there, then please).

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