Five Things about Five Things
So, the five things meme is going around like wild fire. I got tagged by Ian who got tagged by Leigh who got tagged by Phil who got tagged by Jim who got tagged by Erik who got tagged by Thibault who got tagged by Sylvain who got tagged by Gianugo who got tagged by Yoav who got tagged by Jim who got tagged by Sam who got tagged by Jim who got tagged by Dave who got tagged by Siel who got tagged by Ivan who got tagged by Tara who got tagged by Jesse who got tagged by Joe who got tagged by Carolyn who got tagged by Sandra who got tagged by Drew who got tagged by Liz who got tagged by Phil who got tagged by Pam who got tagged by Wendy who got tagged by Holly who got tagged by Kelly who got tagged by Simran who got tagged by D.T. Kelly who got tagged by Dawno who got tagged by Victoria who got tagged by Cathy who got tagged by Jackie who got tagged by Martha who got tagged by Ryan who got tagged by Nichole. who got tagged by Prousty, but without a link there the trail goes cold… So, Nic, if you read this then put a link and a trackback or comment and I’ll continue tracing it back!
- The meme spreads so well because it gives people an excuse to say things about themselves that they never have an opportunity to say.
- The meme highlights the sloppiness of blogs, a lot of the links back were effectively dead as they used the root of the blog rather than the permalink; forcing me to search back to find the ‘five things’ posting.
- The meme highlights the hostile nature of the web for computers; the difference between machine readable and machine understandable. A micro-format would have allowed the relationships to be harvested and graphed quickly and easily.
- The meme implies a missing feature in blogging. The Trackforward Link. When we tag the next five people we’re asking them to write something that logically tracks back to our own posting. We’re asking for a Trackforward.
- The meme shows we’re all stil really, really silly :-)
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Great trail-following, saved me a lot of work!
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