From: Keith Henson (hkhenson@rogers.com)
Date: Thu 17 Jun 2004 - 02:18:45 GMT
At 03:17 PM 10/06/04 +1000, John S Wilkins wrote:
>On 10/06/2004, at 11:39 AM, Ray Recchia wrote:
>>
>>>>So about the time we see the fall off in research papers, LawMeme starts.
>>>Once lawyers get involved in anything, the enterprise is effectively
>>>ready to be stuffed.
>>>--
>>It's all my fault then. 1999 was when the downward trend started. 1999
>>was the year I first posted here.
>And I think I was unfair. Marketers and advertisers stuff things well
>before lawyers do. Just look at what the use of the term "paradigm" in
>advertising did for Kuhnian philosophy of science...
Just wondered if anyone has seen "meme" or "memetics" as a marketing buzz
word?
I have seen "viral marketing" used as the same thing as word of mouth.
Keith Henson
PS. I took Ray's reply as humor. Was I correct Ray?
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