Wrote up an essay about this thread and the Hitler Meme phenomenon. Goes through the history of and reactions to the video, as well as the implications of memetics outside of online subculture: *Memes as Mechanisms: How Digital Subculture Informs the Real World * http://www.convergenceculture.org/weblog/2010/02/memes_as_mechanisms_how_dig... http://bit.ly/9aCdry Would love feedback if anyone has some. Alex Leavitt --- Alexander Leavitt Research Specialist, Convergence Culture Consortium Comparative Media Studies, MIT http://doalchemy.org Twitter: @alexleavitt On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Ren Reynolds <ren@aldermangroup.com> wrote:
Hitler finds out about the iPad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0zp8Ya4
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