Memes alive!

[bascule]

I've never seen such an awesome visual representation of memes in action than Digg Swarm:

 

http://labs.digg.com/swarm/

 

The presentation probably helps the fact, but to me it looks so incredibly biological and alive. And it's just a graphical representation of information...

[Anjruu]

I don't understand it. It me, it looks like the connections and relationships between world events. The stories are dropped onto the screen, and then the hook up with related stories. I didn't think that was memes, I thought memes were ways of thought inherited by your past. It does look freakin awesome, though.

[bascule]

I don't understand it. It me, it looks like the connections and relationships between world events. The stories are dropped onto the screen, and then the hook up with related stories.

 

Not quite, the yellow dots represent people (or rather, users on digg. They could just as easily be bots). What that's showing is how ideas are being received by various people on the system. Good stories, in theory, collect a lot of people.

 

I didn't think that was memes, I thought memes were ways of thought inherited by your past.

 

Memes represent self-replicating information which passes from mind-to-mind

 

It does look freakin awesome, though.

 

Indeed