Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id OAA10960 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:36:14 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.240.222.132] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: MemeticsFlowers.Org and mailing list Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:30:14 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F5AO2Rpy9tMTF4ia5wA00000408@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Mar 2002 14:30:15.0153 (UTC) FILETIME=[13930E10:01C1D665] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: "Douglas P. Wilson" <dp-wilson@shaw.ca>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: MemeticsFlowers.Org and mailing list
>Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 03:21:51 -0800
>
>The new domain name MemeticFlowers.Org has been registered and a temporary
>home page for it has been created at
>www.SocialTechnology.Org/MemeticFlowers.html with a mailing list at :
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MemeticFlowers.
>
>As ordinary flowers are the reproductive or sex organs of angiosperm
>plants,
>memetic flowers are reproductive organs for memetic organisms. This site
>and mailing list are intended to support the creation of software for
>rapidly creating web pages and a mailing list to propagate ideas and other
>memes, meme-complexes, or memetic organisms.
>
>If you can produce a two word description or name for an idea you want to
>propagate, like Social Technology, memetic propagation software (a kind of
>Memetic Flower) should be able to create a web page, perhaps with a name
>consisting of the concatenated words, like www.SocialTechnology.Org
>containing a lot of standard default pieces of mechanism like guest books,
>together with a mailing list for participants, all in support of that idea,
>and it could do so in seconds.
>
>The site and mailing list will also support discussion of the fundamental
>idea of Memetic Flowers, which is much broader than this message suggests.
>Here is the description paragraph for the MemeticFlowers mailing list (see
>subscription form at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MemeticFlowers),
>slightly
>reformatted.
>
>MemeticFlowers.Org, is an organisation and website for the creation and
>application of open-source software and HTML templates for use in setting
>up
>websites which may be attractive reproductive organs for memetic organisms.
>
>This website and the Memetic Flowers mailing list will also be used for
>theoretical and pragmatic discussions of memetic flowers, so long as
>excessive discussion does not interfere with the actual software
>development
>work to be done. If that happens the discussion will be moved elsewhere.
>
>Flowers, of course, are the reproductive organs of angiosperm plants, and
>this word can be used by analogy to mean the reproductive organs of
>meme-complexes or memetic organisms.
>
>Memes, of course, are the information or software analogues of genes, as
>first described by Richard Dawkins in his excellent book The Selfish Gene.
>This is the same analogy that exists between computer viruses and ordinary
>genetic viruses such as the AIDS or common cold viruses.
>
>We could surely find a less poetic but probably more accurate name for
>memetic flowers, but to do so would be to ignore the reproductive potential
>of catchy names.
>
>A sister site with a related idea which links to MemeticFlowers.Org is
>www.GradStudentProjects.Org.
>
>
>
You're a little premature. April 1st (A.F.D.) is next Monday.
_________________________________________________________________
MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos:
http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
===============================================================
This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Mar 28 2002 - 14:47:03 GMT