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What's the first
Internet meme that you remember? You must've seen at least one! Those jokes that travel around the Internet and the world and show up everywhere? Recently we've seen
Silence! I kill you!,the ever-present
LOLcats and
WHAARRGARBLL!, to jog your memory a little.
For me, the first one that I remember actually seeing in the wild is the
Hamster Dance. Yes, the annoying song with animated hamsters dancing to the music. Awful, I'm sure. Then came
WHASSUUUP! from the Bud commercials and
Nigga! from the
Tokyo Breakfast skit.
One Internet denizen has taken it upon himself (herself?) to create
a timeline of these jokes. See how many you remember!
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Kent has asked me to contribute five feeds to his swivel feeds experiment (I'm honored, by the way). I was going to include Engadget, Scoble, TechCrunch and Dave Winer as jokes, but I didn't want to pass up the opportunity so here's my contribution:
curiousgirl's playground - I discovered Jing's blog after the Penn link love that went around a few months ago. She writes about tech, business, web 2.0 and the like and her posts never cease to impress me.
Daring Fireball - I was hoping to include less known blogs in my list, but I couldn't pass up a link to DF. John Gruber is the ultimate Apple fanboy, except with an added touch of class and objectiveness, that make him the go-to guy for big-picture Apple commentary.
Information Arbitrage - Roger writes about finance and technology, two of my biggest interests, and that's what keeps me coming back. I really can't name any other blog that tackles these two areas in a way that strikes me as well as IA.
Marginal Revolution - Marginal Revolution is like Freakonomics taken to the next level. Alex and Tyler have their share of fun and quirky econ stories, but they're balanced well by more serious and/or theoretical pieces. Favorite recurring themes include "Markets in everything" and "Claims my Russian wife laughs at".
Signal vs Noise - Another popular one, but I love the simplicity that surrounds everything 37 Signals does. I can't say I'm a big user of their products, but I love their design and (by extension) their software development philosophies.
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