Slashdot Before Facebook came to be, Slashdot was my space on the Web. It was the social network for dweebs, geeks and the anonymous cowards who have not their own Grand Meme in life and hate to witness the Art of the Meme in action when someone like Mentifex has an axe to grind and a disruptive technology to introduce. Like the usual gang of idiots at MAD Magazine, Commander Taco organized Mutually Assured Destruction at Slashdot. If your website got "Slashdotted" with a prominent link and half a million overloading visitors, you were a victim of the famous "Slashdot effect", which is a coveted mark of distinction and a feather of good karma in your virtual hat.
If your Grand Meme is of a technological nature, like the True AI meme of Mentifex, then Slashdot is worth visiting not only for spreading memes but for keeping up with the latest technological curiosities. They are especially witty at Slashdot with their nomenclature for departments, like the only-in-America department or the out-of-the-pan-and-into-the-fire department. If someone posts an article germane to your Meme, you may either log in to comment or join the ranks of the anonymous cowards who comment without revealing their identity. Often Mentifex would write an anonymous comment and then be outed by some know-it-all "Besserwisser" among the other denizens of Slashdot. To counteract the vicious attacks, for a while I maintained a Slashdox.txt file full of ready-to-go links that I could use as ammunition against the Mentifex-bashers. People might write an anti-Mentifex opinion, and I would counter with a link to a pro-Mentifex occurrence. Then linkrot ensued, and many of the positive sites went out of business. But Slashdot remained as an island in the clickstream, where the Mentifex profile and diary were part of the archipelago under the control of Mentifex and a point of departure for the far-flung outposts of the Mentifex empire, upon which the virtual sun shall never set. Disproportionate Power The Net giveth, and the Net taketh away. As "The Art of the Meme" draws to a close, we have tried to arm you young meme-urchins with the techniques of memetic mastery, where the devil takes the hindmost and the netgods of Meme and Mentifex show the way to an unknown future. Beyond the sovereign websites and profiles under your control, you have outposts where you show the flag and brandish your terrible swift Meme. You have disproportionate power compared to non-meemsters and the memetically challenged, but your awesome powers impose upon you the burdens of "noblesse oblige" when your memetic nobility obligates you to show civility in the face of slander and grace under fire. When you have a sudden new meme to distribute, it takes a heroic effort to visit all your soverign outposts and change the previous weblink to that of your newest memelink, but you have enormous reserves of memetic stamina and endurance, because you have Been There Done That (BTDT) not on The Farm of the Company a.k.a. CIA, but on the link-farms of Webby Bottom, where the best is like the worst and a man can post a first. -- http://slashdot.org/~Mentifex/ http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/taotmeme.html http://www.amazon.com/Arthur-T.-Murray/e/B004OKWAM8/ http://bookstore.iuniverse.com/Products/SKU-000540906/AI4U.aspx ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
