Meme Time (rhymes with Dream time)

I've seen the word meme in a lot of my web 2.0 research recently, and even faux-meme. Now I'm not too proud to admit that this was one of those words where I knew what it meant, but couldn't have verbalised a definition or the history. So I decided to look it up. I now know that Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins is credited with first publication of the concept of meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. Memes are contagious ideas, all competing for a share of our mind in a kind of Darwinian selection. If you want to find out more, check out Meme Central.

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