Blogging, and the web in general, are full of language and abbreviations unique to these universes.  Can you guess the meaning of these?  (Let’s see who’s first to get them correct, in the comments!)

• Vlogger
• Dark Blog
• SEO
• NSFWAB

How about these blog definitions, which as I psychiatrist I find cute:

• GAD - “Google Adsense Disorder,”  repeatedly checking your adsense earnings
• Blogoholic - addicted to blogging

• Blogophobia - fear of blogs and blogging 

So here’s a blog word…  ”meme.”  Last week I was sent one, which is a sort of chain letter, but through blogs.  Another blogger “tags” you.  You write the answers to the meme’s questions on your blog.  Then you pass the meme on by tagging different blogs…

Perhaps more interesting that my answers (below) is the info out on the web about memes.

How do you pronounce meme?

Here are quotes of what I found…

• best way to put it, is simply say it rhymes with ‘dream’
• some pronounce it so it sounds like ‘mem’ (from mem-ory)
• I pronounce it ‘maim’
• I’ve always, always said ‘mem’ (rhymes with ‘gem’)
• ‘meme‘ is French for ’same,’ and that fits in pretty well with the whole idea of memes
• the word derives from the Greek, mimema, which means ‘that which is imitated’
• I always thought it should be pronounced ‘me-me,’ since that’s always what they’re about.

So that clears that up ;)   Also, see here for a funny R-rated discussion of meme.

What does the word meme mean?  Unrelated to blogs,

• An idea that, like a gene, can replicate and evolve.  Memes are the cultural counterpart of genes.  (The topic or questions get slightly changed when the meme is passed.)
• A unit of cultural information or basic idea that’s transferred from one person to another, and subjected to mutation, crossover and adaptation.  (From Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book, The Selfish Gene.)

Sooooo……
I’ve been tagged for a meme challenge by In Sickness and In Health.  The Rules:

• Link to your tagger, and post these rules on your blog
• Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird
• Tag 6 people at the end of your post by links to their blogs
• Let them know they’re tagged by leaving a comment on their blog

So here are 7 facts about me…

• Owls, squirrels and octopi are my favorite animals.  I’ve been trying to see an owl in nature for about 3 years, so I’m always looking in trees, and even once got my husband to sit in a dark football field with me, listening for a whooo).  No luck yet
• My retirement dream is being a volunteer in the Monterey, California Aquarium, teaching visitors about octopi.
• My other retirement dream is teaching in a rural school in Pakistan, that teaches boys and girls.
• I was chosen to be on one of our local tv stations about 10 years ago, for a “have your sports dream come true” contest, and got to play tennis with a top ranked player.
• I won the ”Will Make the Best Girlfriend” award in 7th grade.
• I was voted “Biggest Blusher” in 6th grade - and, yes, blushed when I walked up to pick up the award.
• I’m secretly addicted to American Idol, Survivor, Hell’s Kitchen, and last but least, the new Gossip Girl.  (I was at a party a while back where the discussion was, ‘what kind of idiots watch reality tv?’  Hmmmmm 

The blogs I’m tagging are:

• CRPS/RSD A Better Life
• The Neurotopian
• Nickie’s Nook
• Keep Working, Girlfriend
• Work It Out While You Can
• Sufferer of RSD

Thanks to Angel 24-7 for the picture above.

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