The Passion Quilt meme has definitely been interesting in terms of analyzing the viral nature of an effective meme within the edublogging community. Started on February 10 by Miguel Guhlin it has now appeared on over 100 blogs and it’s progress can be monitored by subscribing to either of these RSS feeds using your feed reader e.g. Google Reader:
Chart below shows posts that contain “Passion Quilt” per day for the last 30 days.
Passion Quilt’s Been Brought Together
Unfortunately I was only able to encourage a small number to upload their images to Flickr using the tag term passionquilt08 so that the Passion Quilt could be brought together as a slide show. But the good news is Miguel has been incredibly busy capturing the images from each blog using Skitch and uploading to Flickr.
Here’s what it looks like so far:
Also worth checking out Miguel’s post to see what it looks like as a PicassaWeb slideshow and Andrea Hernandez fantastic work in creating a slideshow using RockYou.
Another Meme
Meanwhile Alan Levine must have decided I needed to join him in the doghouse since he tagged me with The Book Meme — who would like to be tagged 🙂
Check out the chart below to see how viral this meme’s been – chart shows posts that contain “nearest Book” per day for the last 30 days.
Sue Waters 
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