Wednesday, February 02, 2005
MEME: More purple fingers at the State of the Union
Many freshman congressmen, along with Katherine Harris, and a visiting Iraqi woman showed their purple fingers as marks of pride at tonight's State of the Union. (NYT)
Spam on del.icio.us
Looks like del.icio.us has started to get hit with spam. Will be interesting to see how they respond. I have a sense that much rides on their response for the future of tagsonomies/folksonomies/theNewWhatever.
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
MEME: Iraqis' purple fingers on election day.
As markers of
- resistance to tyranny(David Brooks in NYT)
- national pride(St. Petersburg Times)
- Israeli interference(alJazeera)