Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19990121152821.00685d98@popmail.mcs.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 15:28:21 -0600
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Aaron Lynch <aaron@mcs.net>
Subject: Re: THOUGHT CONTAGION Radio & TV
In-Reply-To: <003f01be4567$56303320$60a1bfce@proftim>
At 09:55 AM 1/21/99 -0800, Tim Rhodes wrote:
>Aaron Lynch wrote:
>
>>Although I did not sign onto the memetics list to recount my media
>>engagements, I have been asked to give continued updates on my radio and TV
>>appearances to the memetics list. So I started giving notices back in June
>>of 1997 under the thread "THOUGHT CONTAGION Radio & TV." Yet shortly after
>>that advance announcement, someone who was then calling himself my "friend"
>>contacted the producer and persuaded him to cancel my appearance and
>>consider putting himself on instead. After evaluating the ideas offered by
>>the two possible guests, the producer changed back to plan A and
>>rescheduled my interview with Michelle Norris and Anderson Cooper a few
>>weeks later. That experience shifted me back to reluctance about
>>announcing details of my media schedule, which is currently running at
>>several interviews per week. I know the lack of postings can leave my
>>colleagues unaware of how widely thought contagion memetics is spreading in
>>the US, but sometimes good fences really do make good neighbors.
>
>But if we don't know when you're on, Aaron, how can can the popularity
>contest between you and Brodie be carried out fairly? After all, the very
>future of memetics hangs in the balance!
>:-)
>
>-Tim Rhodes
The trouble is, if I tell you when I am going to be on, you still won't
know; for then I am apt to be rescheduled! :-))
--Aaron Lynch
http://www.mcs.net/~aaron/thoughtcontagion.html
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