Angela tagged me to let my readers know 8 random facts about myself. Believe it or not, this is harder than it seems. Here goes: 1. I’m gadget-obsessed — anything electronic usually sucks up a huge amount of my time (and money). Nintendo Wii’s the obsession du jour. 2. I love plants. I have a [...]
Due to the inherent difficulty of trying to maintain two different blogs, I’ve now moved the posts from memetiks.com over lucasmcdonnell.com. I had initially created memetiks.com in order to focus posts there on memes and meme-related topics, but it occurred to me recently that I didn’t need a separate site in order to write posts [...]
In case you haven’t heard, ‘rickrolling’ is everywhere. What’s rickrolling? Well, in a nutshell, it’s when you provide a link that is supposed to be to one thing, and actually links to a video of the 1987 Rick Astley song “Never Gonna Give You Up”. Wikipedia has more on this (yes, it’s really a link [...]
Google announced back in December that the company would be creating something called “knols”, which Google describes as “units of knowledge” — which has been met with a mixed reaction. For example (and this is lifted, by me, from the Wikipedia page on knols), Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, suggested: [...]
I thought my post about the potential decline of knowledge management on my other blog, memetiks.com, might interest my readers here. While I suggested in that post that the declining searches on Google Trends may be due to an increased understanding of what KM is about, I’m still reminded of the knowledge management as nonsense [...]
In case anybody reading this blog doesn’t already know, I work in knowledge management. As a discipline, it hasn’t really been around that long — Wikipedia suggests it’s been an established discipline since 1995. So let’s assume for a moment that knowledge management itself is a meme — one that really started to pick up [...]
In response to my post about the Burger King meme, Stephanie suggested that perhaps the Burger King king wasn’t really a meme at all. In that particular case, she asked: what’s the difference between a meme and a simple marketing gimmick? Here is the definition of a meme according to Richard Dawkins (author of both [...]
Birth and early life: Born sometime in 1955. The King could often be found making balloon animals and doing magic tricks inside (or sometimes in the parking lot of) your local Burger King. The King was also clean-shaven in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, having not yet grown his now-legendary beard. Rebirth: Was reborn sometime [...]
I pretty much just summed up two of my favourite all-time web memes — and both can be credited to American politicians who were probably not the most technologically savvy guys (if there’s an understatement award, I just won it). The history of the word “internets” is pretty short, having been coined by George Bush [...]
I’ve been tagged. All Tips and Tricks has tagged me to respond to the ’5 reasons why I write’ meme. As I said before, memes are an interesting way to get people to share knowledge. Instead of me just listing why I write, I’d like to list 5 principles for why knowledge sharing matters (and [...]
