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Link At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream
What is ROFLCon? It's a biennial convention (this year was its third) held to celebrate and discuss internet memes and the celebrity that is often created alongside them. This year's…

May 8 2012, 2:17pm | Comments
Twitter Links How I Found the Human Being Behind Horse_ebooks, The Internet's Favorite Spambot
This is the story of Horse_ebooks, beloved online automaton, and how I tracked down its human master. Horse_ebooks is a Twitter spam bot originally…

February 26 2012, 10:21am | Comments
Link A Medium for the Masses
The word “meme” first appeared in Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book “The Selfish Gene.” Dawkins defined a meme as being any sort of idea that spreads from person to person within…

June 6 2011, 2:25am | Comments
Link The glorious GIF renaissance
GIFs (the name stands for graphics interchange format and can be pronounced with either a hard or soft G) began life in the mid-'80s, image files so efficiently compressed that…

May 17 2011, 2:46am | Comments
Metafilter GIF Archaeology I'm writing a paper on (animated) GIFs and am trying to track down some of the most (in)famous. I suppose I am talking memes, but I'm more interested…

May 16 2011, 8:17am | Comments
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July 19 2010, 2:00am | Comments
Link Art Fag City » The Best of Web…
Here’s a better model for year-end link lists: Only chose one link! I asked 18 of my favorite professionals to do just this, leaving the subject matter completely at their…

January 3 2010, 4:59am | Comments
Metafilter Arcangel and the future of digi/net art Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most infamous hack, masher-upper, digi/net artist. His work stands for a growing culture of artists who run wildly through animated GIF landscapes…

December 8 2009, 6:44am | Comments

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