Been tagged by both Jarrod Robinson and Liz B. Davis for the meme 7 Things You Don’t Need To Know About Me so here goes: The reason why I majored in Botany, Biochemistry and Microbiology at University and NOT Zoology is I don’t like the idea of killing animals or looking at bloods and guts. Still consider it ironic that I’ve spent the past 21 years of my work life cutting up sick fish (DON”T tell anyone but the killing,…
Twitter users fall into 3 distinct categories: Rarely use because it doesn’t suite their style; Like using it but in moderation; Really love using it and will twitter almost anything. Those who follow me on twitter know I fall into third category and frequently share the funny aspects of my life. Probably the only person who has tweeted (with photos), for a week, about living with a household of blocked toilets and plumbing nightmares. As twitmunky tweeted that truly deserves…
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: Google Blog Search – Passion Quilt Technorati – Passion Quilt Chart below shows posts that contain “Passion Quilt” per day for…
Love or hate memes, you have to admire the viral nature of an effective meme. The term meme was originally coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book “The Selfish Gene”; it refers to “A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another”. Blogging memes normally involve a series of questions that a blogger answers and passes onto other blogs by tagging other bloggers…
Graham was busy last night with his son’s 4th birthday, but not too busy to tag me with this meme of 8 Random facts. [Image by aussiegall] Cut’n paste the rules and then insert my facts. Graham used Dean’s (the person who tagged him) alteration to Rule 3. He didn’t leave a comment informing of the tag – if you’re the one of the unlucky 8, you can read it on his blog or in your feed aggregator. I also…
As I have said before social networking online is truly amazing. For example take Gabriela and myself – a small matter of time zones plus a language barrier (on my part as I don’t speak Romanian and she blogs in Romanian) and yet we are able to network and gain from one another. By the way Gabriela thanks for suggesting I use your information on widgets from your wiki site. I definitely will do this – Carmen has gone on…