And Then There's This_ How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture - Bill Wasik [83]
Silverstein, Jake
Simon, Roger
Slashdot effect
Slashdot.org
Smith, Ben
Smith, Zadie
Social epidemics, tipping point concept
Social hook, and viral culture
Social networking, product-based networking
South by Southwest festival
Annuals
number of acts
Peter Bjorn and John
Spence, Anna
Spike, The, media attention
Staind
Stanford Prison Experiment
Stengel, Richard
Stereogum.com
Stewart, Gary Lee
Stewart, Jon
Stoicism
Stop Peter Bjorn and John
“Stop Sex Predators” blog
Strahm, Kurt
Stranger, The
Streetwise
Sullivan, Andrew
Sundberg, Norman
Superchunk
Surowiecki, James
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
Talking Points Memo
TalkTrack™
Tapes ’n Tapes
Tartt, Donna
Technorati
Tequila, Tila
Thomas, Helen
Thompson, Clive
Thompson, Fred
Thompson, Tommy
Threadless.com
Thrill, as intrinsic reward
Time, “You” as Person of the Year
Time-shifting
Tipping Point, The (Gladwell)
TiVo
Todd, Chuck
Tomich, Edward
Tremor
Trend detection, acceleration detection
Tribes of interest
Trudeau, Garry
TTLB Ecosystem
Tundra
Underneath Their Robes
Updike, John
VandeHei, Jim
Vellis, Phil de
Verizon Beatbox Mixer
Video ads
Viral communication, meaning of
Viral culture
and ads/marketing. See Viral marketing/advertising
versus art
and bands/music. See Indie rock; Music
and bandwagon effect
celebrities of
Contagious Festival
and cultural experimentation
features of
and interactivity
and Internet. See Internet
and media mind
meme
nanostories
niche cultures as
and politics. See Politics
and science of networks
sensations, examples of
social hook, importance of
tipping point concept
tribes of interest
Viral Factory
ads of
Viral marketing/advertising
BzzAgent
by consumers
with flash mob
future of
Ground Force Network
paydirt concept
product-based social networking
video ads
viral, ethical issues
Viral Factory
word-of-mouth
Virtual Thirst
Voice of Treason, The
Vollmann, William T.
“Vote Different” ad
Wallace, David Foster
Wal-Mart, fake blogs
Want2bSquare.com
Way to Win, The (Halperin and Harris)
Weber Nation
Webisodes
Westen, Drew
Whole Foods, and viral marketing
Wickers, Bob
Wikipedia
will.i.am
Williams, Brian
Willis, Frank
Wonkette
Word-of-mouth marketing
effectiveness of See also Viral marketing/advertising
Word-of-Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA)
WorldNetDaily
Wright, Jeremiah
Writers/writing
best fictional works, past 25 years
young writers, longevity of career
Yario, Chaz
Yee, Nick
“You,” as Person of the Year
Younger, Sandra
YouTube
anti-Hillary video
channels, custom
data related to
political videos
as viral
and Web amateurs
Zimbardo, Philip
Ziploc bags, BzzAgent campaign
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The only solace in Wallace’s recent and senseless passing has been an overdue reconsideration of this.
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I later discovered that he was not John at all, but rather a stand-in drummer named Nino, who fills in when John is off performing with his side project, a classical percussion ensemble.
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This engineering spirit has been with us since the Internet’s early days. In a famous 1990 project, a lawyer named Mike Godwin, who had grown tired of how readily online antagonists stooped to accuse one another of being “similar to the Nazis” or “Hitler-like,” created a “countermeme” that he called Godwin’s Law. The official language of the law was this: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” The real intent of the law, of course, was simply to shame: comparing one’s enemy to the Nazis, he was saying, is almost always so overheated and clichéd as to be not only offensive but useless. He set about seeding his countermeme in any discussion group where he came across an unnecessary Nazi reference. It quickly spread, to the point that such references were actively pilloried in online forums. Even today, to make a Nazi analogy online is to risk finding oneself on the receiving end of Godwin’s Law.
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Since canceled.
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Facebook, which has so far been