Though it doesn’t irritate me, it is pronounced MEEM.
Many ask what ShareMeme means. Here’s our first try.
Share is easy enough to understand. But in any case, the definition of share is: to divide and apportion something, anything. Easy enough.
Meme is more difficult for most to understand. You probably know TechMeme, which we’re not affiliated with in anyway, and then you wonder why is it called TechMeme. Then, you wonder why we’re called ShareMeme, and the analogy doesn’t help you any.
Technically, meme is relatively new word. On Wikipedia, it says that a meme:
consists of any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that gets transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. Examples include thoughts, ideas, theories, practices, habits, songs, dances and moods and terms such as race, culture, and ethnicity. Memes propagate themselves and can move through a “culture” in a manner similar to the behavior of a virus.
Okay, a meme means when we transmit information, but Wikipedia defines an Internet Meme as:
At its most basic, an Internet meme is simply the propagation of a digital file or hyperlink from one person to others using methods available through the Internet (for example, email, blogs, social networking sites, instant messaging, etc.). The content often consists of a saying or joke, a rumor, an altered or original image, a complete website, a video clip or animation, or an offbeat news story, among many other possibilities.
Put the words together, and you get ShareMeme. Though we won’t say yet, it gives a pretty good idea of what we’re trying to do.
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