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New on SSIR: You can has memesez?

Amy Sample Ward

That song, “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen, quickly also became the soundtrack to an Internet meme —that is, an idea that spreads online (“ I Can Has Cheezburger? That’s right, a widely recognized nonprofit organization has created a parody so that it can propagate a meme. Why meme at all?

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Ah f**k: YouTube takes down classic ‘I can’t believe you’ve done this’ meme

The Verge

Whether it wants to be or not, YouTube is a guardian of internet history, with countless classic videos sitting in its archives. The video has been remixed and re-memed in countless ways since it first went viral in the mid-2010s, and Weedon himself has an interesting relationship with the content. Well, that's that then.

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How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Marketing Genius: What's Your Brilliant Thought?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You'll want to identify easy, simple first projects that flow from your organization’s internet marketing plan. This is a nonprofit remix of some of Chris Brogan's ideas and 50 ways to use social media organized by Groundswell objectives from Jeremiah Owyang. The important thing is having the conversation. and what you can achieve.

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Is the music industry’s future on the blockchain?

The Verge

Then came the internet. The internet knows a vulnerable middleman when it sees one — “ your margin is my opportunity ” and all that — and few middlemen look more vulnerable, from this perspective, than record labels. You promote remix culture. But for the most part, the major record labels controlled the industry.

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The Lincoln Project is stealing memes — and the online left isn’t happy

The Verge

FuckJerry-style aggregation meets campaigning The anti-Trump Lincoln Project has a reputation for goofy memes attacking the Trump administration online, so when they posted a whimsical fancam in support of the United States Postal Service on Twitter over the weekend, it seemed par for the course. It’s a large part of the reason Sen.

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