Mar
14
2009
By early morning Saturday, only hours after airing, the Jon Stewart/Jim Cramer interview had expanded from The Daily Show’s episode 2.3 million viewership to mainstream headlines. By 2AM, when I got in last night, the headline showed two or three times in my mailbox. And by late this afternoon, the interview began showing on social [...]
Tags: cnbc, corporate media, jim cramer, jon stewart, memetics, the daily show
Mar
07
2009
Long before memetics became a professional field of study, writers have written about its effects and used it to their advantage, which is one reason evolutionary biologists and socio-psychologists have turned to literature to help further their understanding of how memes operate. However, in terms of natural selection, most memes have an infinitesimally short life [...]
Tags: genetics, Harold Bloom, jorge luis borges, kahn, memetics, memory, national geographic, Shakespeare, the new yorker