Posts tagged 'memes'

Obamonomyth

20081020Mon

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Popularized by Joseph Campbell in “The Hero with a Thousand Faces“, the concept of the Hero’s Journey or Monomyth suggests a hidden structure to the obstacles that every hero must face. Out of curiosity, how well does Barack Obama fare?

On the verge of a new meme

20070221Wed

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The new movie Black Snake Moan lays the groundwork for a very important (and useful) meme. Let’s all try to nurture it, because the world needs it.

The curiosity of fanatic Atheism

20061218Mon

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Richard Dawkins’ book “The God Delusion” is setting the fires of controversy wherever it’s even talked about. Why on earth would I want to set that fire myself? Don’t I have any sense?!

The Legend of 2.0

20061211Mon

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There needs to be a better word to describe companies that embrace community, clarity, and agility as a business model. Though they have nothing to do with Ruby on Rails, AJAX, or tag clouds, there’s something decidedly “Web 2.0″ about Nintendo lately.

The curious meme of “San Francisco Values”

20061106Mon

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The cover of Friday’s Chronicle reported a flurry of comments from GOP leadership (among which I’m including O’Reilly) on “San Francisco Values”. These three words are intended to scare voters into voting Republican, keeping SF Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi out of the Speaker position.

Celebrating OneWebDay

20060922Fri

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Today is that grandest of holidays, OneWebDay. Billed as “Earth Day for the Web”, people everywhere thankful for what the world wide web has given us are engaging in little projects to improve and honor it. Here’s what I did…