I See What You Meme

For this week's Follow Friday, I'm going to highlight a few of my favorite "mom" sites out there on the web.  You've already learned about Miss Britt .  She's still cruising up the east coast and getting ready to hit Boston in September.  One of my other favorite "mom-bloggers" is Alex at Late Enough . This talented Richmond mom is smart and funny. Her blogs are entertaining , insightful , and frequently touching . Plus we share a passion for Zombies and Angry Birds .   Her blog was one of my inspirations to start my own.   Speaking of Richmond, if you live in the Richmond area and you are a mom, you definitely need to know about RichmondMom .  Kate Hall is an amazing entrepreneur who has built a fabulous resource for all things related to parenting in the #RVA.  I recently wrote an article for her website so now you have even more reason to check it out.  Finally, check out the world of FreeAnissa. Anissa Mayhew is not just a mom blogger. S...

     "Chimpanzees and orangutans may be capable of very limited forms of imitation, but only humans are capable of the kind of widespread and general imitation that...leads to memetic evolution."  --Dr. Susan Blackmore in The Evolution of Meme Machines "Bad artists copy. Good artists steal." -- Picasso " Imitation is the sincerest flattery" -- C.C. Colton "Stealing from one source is plagiarism.  Stealing from many sources is research."              -- Wilson Mizner....or Joseph Cummings Chase...or Steven Wright or....? As humans, we are drawn to create.  It also seems to be an innately human behavior to take someone's creation and do whatever we can to make it our own.   In this way, we form our culture.  In this way, we spread our memes.  Memes are born They spread through simple contagion.  We blog about them.  Repeatedly .    ...