Comments on: How Do Memes Start? A Case Study: 100 Books in Facebook.

By: check check « ♪傷心咖啡店♬

check check « ♪傷心咖啡店♬ — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:20:30 +0000

[...] 我去检查了，这并非什么组织还是什么权威团体发出来的“人生100必读”书单。只不过是面子书上面的连锁信之类玩玩的书单。我搜查了一下出处，看到这个，有兴趣读一下： http://www.purplecar.net/2009/03/02/how-do-memes-start-a-case-study-100-books-in-facebook/ [...]

By: Ask me anything - Show off how literate and educated and above it all you are!

Ask me anything - Show off how literate and educated and above it all you are! — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:05:38 +0000

[...] http://www.purplecar.net/2009/03/02/how-do-memes-start-a-case-study-100-books-in-facebook/ [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:42:41 +0000

No worries, Jillian and Ari! It’s just too tempting to ignore. Goes straight to the ego, it’s like we have no defenses against it! Especially when it throws in those dirty Brits, right? LOL have fun with it, just don’t go burning up Shakespeare in effigy. Thanks for coming to comment!

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:52:34 +0000

Sigh. Like Mark Dykeman earlier up the comments trail, I’d already fallen prey. Thanks to Jillian, someone I tagged, for pointing me here.

By: Jillian C. York

Jillian C. York — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:30:20 +0000

What a relief! As a verifiable snob, I turned my nose up at the list on the Facebook meme. I mean, “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” seriously? Hardly literature. And FOUR Dickens? Blech. Thankfully, the original list is significantly better.

By: Trey's Bloglicious Blog: BBC Top 100 Books vs. Facebook Meme

Trey's Bloglicious Blog: BBC Top 100 Books vs. Facebook Meme — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:56:34 +0000

[...] them (3 of which were lower case). Drat less than half…I decided to google this before posting, here is an interesting article on this Facebook list and its migration away from the original.Labels: Books, [...]

By: PurpleCar

PurpleCar — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:59:30 +0000

Ya know what, classhumorist, after all this conversation, I’m giving up on obtaining a “certain degree of cultural literacy.” Screw it. I’ll read the new Dan Brown book when it comes out next week and enjoy it. I’m thrilled and proud to be a member of the middle class, as I started out in the working poor. How well-read a person is a concern for the upper echelon Bourgeois, and none of my concern. I pride myself on being able to carry on a conversation with anyone, and the secrets to that skill don’t reside in book learning. If the person I’m speaking with chooses to look down on my Goodreads.com list, then I’ll move on to talking with someone else. Maybe I’m just getting older and learning how to accept myself more.

As for Collin’s reference, that one must have slipped by me, as our public library system here in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA, USA, is actually quite good.

Thanks for coming & commenting!

-PC

By: classhumorist

classhumorist — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:30:31 +0000

PurpleCar -

Thanks for doing the legwork on this. I aspire to a certain degree of cultural literacy, but the idea of being told what I should have read is abhorrent to me. For example, I’ve read “Atlas Shrugged” but it was not on that list. As such *I* claim superiority over the compiler of the list as an understanding of objectivism will stand me better in society than… say… my ability to quote passages from “Bridget Jones’ Diary”.

BTW – I believe that by “government run(down) book lending collective”, Collin meant “public library”…

By: PurpleCar

PurpleCar — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:16:59 +0000

LOL Cromulent link. I love that someone took the time to write a wikipedia entry on it.

By: Levinthauer

Levinthauer — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:00:44 +0000

Embiggen? It’s a perfectly cromulent word.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_the_Iconoclast#Embiggen_and_cromulent