You've heard of memes right? A word that Richard Dawkins came up with that is a play on genes. Genes are pieces of genetic code that appear to be trying to replicate themselves. Memes are thoughts, ideas, or scraps of information that appear to be trying to replicating themselves across an 'information space'. So like genes, memes are subject to natural selection, survival of the fittest and all that malarkey.
Well there's all these people posting blogs all around the world aren't there? What if you could see what the most successful memes are amongst all these posts? What if there was a list? What if MIT had done the coding?
OK I'll shut up and give you the link.
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