I was tagged in another meme – and while I hate doing these things – one of my goals was to blog every day of my vacation so this takes some of the stress off the next twelve hours or so.  Andrew Hyde – fellow Boulderite, Start Up enthusiast, globe-trotting, and all around nice guy – tagged me for the “6th photo on Flickr” meme.   It’s somewhat ironic, because the photo has to do with him – it’s from Ignite Boulder 2 – one of the community based events that Andrew is involved in.  Anyway – check it out and I happen to smirk when I read the slide I happened to immortalize:

My friend Fayza already tagged me in the “(insert number) random things about you” meme – which was my previous post.

At the end of Andrew’s post – he talked about memes worth doing and mentioned the “flash mob” culture.  I love events like that – whether organized online or offline.  From the Boulder Naked Pumpkin Run to Giant Pillow Fights – these things demonstrate, in a humorous way, our ability to organize in a community.  I love those kind of things.  While not quite a flash mob type event – I have something planned for next year that will hopefully take off.  I just need to build the website and/or blog to start the preparations….

My original foray into the online world – some 10 years ago – was to have a place where my friends can keep tabs on me.  Today – it can be used to actually “play” with your friends.  One of my favorite examples of this was done by my friend Meghann’s friends.  They did a “World Scavenger Hunt” where they would challenge their friends to take pictures of a somewhat universal object or action and, as shared authors of the blog, would share it there.  While somewhat under-utilized – Meghann and her friends probably don’t share the affinity for blogging that some of us have – it was a great concept that I would love to do with people.

Memes, for the most part, cater to mass appeal.  Whether it’s LOLCats and the like,  – their viral nature is due to the fact that we can find someone easily who would enjoy the memes contents.  If we can harness that energy and build local or global communities – then we’re on the right track.  I look forward to hearing ideas on how we can do that.

As for tagging others with this, I don’t think I know anyone that hasn’t done this recently.  Perhaps Kezza or Alana Marie will want to.  Or maybe some of my mystery readers out there.  One thing though – if you do it, come up with a way we can use memes and meme culture to build something special…