Single Serving Sites
[ 2 Comments ]Posted on December 14, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Sunday, December 14th, 2008Is this my single serving post? Dot Com?
We’ve touched on Internet memes before, but here’s a fairly new one: Single Serving Sites. I first ran across the phenomena with isbarackobamamuslin during the election , but thanks to the Internet’s power to demonstrate that someone’s always already thought of something and come up with a buzzword for it, we have is this your paper on single serving sites.com, which expands on the phenomena probably first observed by Jason Kottke. Some SSS’s are pleasantly pointless, like defiantdog.com (which features — you guessed it — a defiant dog), or sometimesredsometimesblue.com (sometimes it’s red, and well…sometimes it isn’t). Some are only occasionally useful, like instantrimshot.com, but some you might use every day, like doineedanumbrella.com. For your convenience, I’ve assembled a Single Serving Page here. Let me know if I missed any…
The Meme Generation, Revisited
[ 3 Comments ]Posted on August 9, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Saturday, August 9th, 2008The temptation to RickRoll is overwhelming…
One of my first posts on Dissociated Press was a quick roundup of Internet Memes. The folks at Dipity.com have done a better job of this, and put it on a browseable, user-modifyable timeline as well. Still sadly missing from both collections: 1.) The man who was Borat long before Borat, Mahir, and 2.) The seminal Lee Jeans viral marketing campaign, RubberBurner.com (mirror of original site).