I've been tagged by Search-This, a website relating primarily to web design and development with tidbits of other things on the side. Since Golgotha did such a wonderful job at explaining it, I'm simply going to copy and paste his wording, I hope he doesn't mind...it's for a good cause!
First, a little background on memes. The term meme originated by well known and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins in his book ‘The Selfish Gene’. A meme, as defined by Google is, “a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.”
Well… that was nice, what does it mean in blogging?
For bloggers memes have become synonymous with internet quizzes, surveys, and novelties that people link to and pass around on their blogs.
Many of these memes are trivial and not worth participating in, let alone asking your precious blog viewers to participate in. But, not this one! This one has a cause — this one is — the Charity Link Meme!
Thanks, Golgotha!
Here are my five, newly added charities:
- Wildlife Warriors - Insipired and Supported by Steve and Terri Irwin
- Kiva -- Become a lender with the possibility of 100% returns! You can simply continuously donate, it's great!
- PennyArcade's "Child's Play" Charity
- Carbon Fund - Donate to Carbon Emission Reducing Projects
- PetSmart Charities: A lifelong, loving home for every pet.
...and here are the original charities:
- Service International - Disaster Relief
- Pujols Family Foundation - Children with Down Syndrome
- National Alliance to End Homelessness - Homelessness
- The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research - Parkinson’s Research
- Ronald McDonald Care Mobile Program - Child Healthcare
- Aids Research Alliance - Aids Research
- Wildlife Conservation Society - Wildlife Protection
- Cancer Research Institute - Cancer Research
- Second Harvest - End Hunger
- AARP Foundation - Helping Senior Citizens
- The National Arbor Day Foundation
- Compassion International
- World Wildlife Fund
- The Humane Society
- Global Refuge International
… And the people I am going to tag…
- Jon Chambers (you'll have to get your blog up now!)
- Mike
- Dan Grossman
- James Inman
- Mgccl of WebDevLogs
Obviously, this is completely voluntary and I don't expect anyone to do it, and if you do, you obviously don't have to add only 5, nor do you have to add 5. However, if any type of disease or poverty has ever struck your life personally, this might be at least one way to help out. I can see this getting really, really long. ...boy, do I wish I had turned on my WYSIWYG editor for my blog when I wrote this! Geez...
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