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7 Random Things About A Meme Newbie
By Trevor | December 12, 2007
Sandra Porter at Discovering Biology in a Digital World (excellent blog) has decided to tag Epigenetics News with a meme. With this being the first meme at the site, I should probably explain what a meme is. From Wikipedia:
A meme, as defined within memetic theory, constitutes a theoretical unit of cultural information, the building block of cultural evolution or diffusion that propagates from one mind to another analogously to the way in which a gene propagates from one organism to another as a unit of genetic information and of biological evolution.
Yes, that definition should explain everything for our audience at Epigenetics News.
If you’re still confused, a meme might be best described as the bloggers’ equivalent of an e-mail chain letter, perhaps with a little more purpose in extracting useful information from a number of people with shared interests.
With that said, here are the rules of this meme:
- Link to the person that tagged you andpost the rules on your blog.
- Share 7 random or weird things about yourself.
- Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
- Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Seven Random Things About Me
Random thing #1: Science was my worst subject in high school.
Random thing #2: I started writing this blog before I had taken an introductory genetics course.
Random thing #3: I have been employed as a lab research assistant, wheat genetics field crew, newspaper circulation district manager, computer technician, staff writer, senior news editor, and oyster picker.
Random thing #4: I have been paid to play video games.
Random thing #5: I don’t play video games much anymore, unless it’s with my 13 year-old stepson.
Random thing #6: I attended the University of Southern California for a semester in 1997.
Random thing #7: I was covering Macworld Expo San Francisco as a staff writer when the first iPod was introduced.
Tag 7 Other Bloggers
Migrations
Sex Determination Research
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Eye on DNA
ScienceRoll
Omics! Omics!
ESI Blog
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