Comments on: Griots http://laughingmeme.org/2008/12/08/griots/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:28:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mimilas http://laughingmeme.org/2008/12/08/griots/comment-page-1/#comment-624063 mimilas Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:13:54 +0000 http://laughingmeme.org/?p=4107#comment-624063 <p>I have explain the 'history' of the term #griots in a comment that waiting for moderations (with some twitter links)</p> I have explain the ‘history’ of the term #griots in a comment that waiting for moderations (with some twitter links)

]]> By: Austin Putman http://laughingmeme.org/2008/12/08/griots/comment-page-1/#comment-623950 Austin Putman Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:31:07 +0000 http://laughingmeme.org/?p=4107#comment-623950 <p>Kellan,</p> <p>For a second I mistook your post for one by Jan Chipchase. He strikes a similar exploratory tone examining how customs, place, and language are transformed in digital media and vice-versa. janchipchase.com</p> Kellan,

For a second I mistook your post for one by Jan Chipchase. He strikes a similar exploratory tone examining how customs, place, and language are transformed in digital media and vice-versa. janchipchase.com

]]> By: Julien http://laughingmeme.org/2008/12/08/griots/comment-page-1/#comment-623857 Julien Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:36:21 +0000 http://laughingmeme.org/?p=4107#comment-623857 <p>Sorry for misundertanding!</p> <p>I see your point now. Well I guess it's just that these systems are effiscient and it takes only a few hours to syncrhnize everybody over a new word. But I guess it has been the same with regular language. How long does it take to invent a new word and have evrybody use it? I guess it depends only on the communciation means and the size of the crowd. My bet is that it takes and maybe 10years for a "common word" to be "recognized" by everybody. (the adoption of the new word "smiley" could be a nice example)</p> <p>Here it's been very very fast, I guess that's the speed difference between Twitter/Flickr/Delicious//Blogs and the like with traditional word-of-mouth, plus the fact that the crowd is also wayyy smaller!</p> Sorry for misundertanding!

I see your point now. Well I guess it’s just that these systems are effiscient and it takes only a few hours to syncrhnize everybody over a new word. But I guess it has been the same with regular language. How long does it take to invent a new word and have evrybody use it? I guess it depends only on the communciation means and the size of the crowd. My bet is that it takes and maybe 10years for a “common word” to be “recognized” by everybody. (the adoption of the new word “smiley” could be a nice example)

Here it’s been very very fast, I guess that’s the speed difference between Twitter/Flickr/Delicious//Blogs and the like with traditional word-of-mouth, plus the fact that the crowd is also wayyy smaller!

]]> By: Kellan http://laughingmeme.org/2008/12/08/griots/comment-page-1/#comment-623777 Kellan Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:51:34 +0000 http://laughingmeme.org/?p=4107#comment-623777 <p>Hey folks, didn't mean to be ambiguous. Yes, the coinage is clear and obvious, and so spontaneous emergence rather suggests itself. The question about the tag is if folks made a conscience efforts to coordinate, and if so, where they did it.</p> <p>Julien, agreed, I was hilighting how meaning can shift so quickly.</p> <p>Ayla, that doesn't line up with the timeline I'm seeing, but if you had some links that would be awesome.</p> Hey folks, didn’t mean to be ambiguous. Yes, the coinage is clear and obvious, and so spontaneous emergence rather suggests itself. The question about the tag is if folks made a conscience efforts to coordinate, and if so, where they did it.

Julien, agreed, I was hilighting how meaning can shift so quickly.

Ayla, that doesn’t line up with the timeline I’m seeing, but if you had some links that would be awesome.

]]> By: mimilas http://laughingmeme.org/2008/12/08/griots/comment-page-1/#comment-623775 mimilas Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:47:38 +0000 http://laughingmeme.org/?p=4107#comment-623775 <p>griots = GR (from Greece) + Riot(s)</p> griots = GR (from Greece) + Riot(s)

]]> By: Julien http://laughingmeme.org/2008/12/08/griots/comment-page-1/#comment-623774 Julien Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:45:09 +0000 http://laughingmeme.org/?p=4107#comment-623774 <p>I think it's just a contraction between Greece and Riots, don't you think?</p> <p>Griots as we can find them in Africa or usually rather old and they have the "mission" to tramsit the values and "myths" of a culture, a people accross ages. They are the "living memories".</p> <p>I really think that they have nothing in common!</p> I think it’s just a contraction between Greece and Riots, don’t you think?

Griots as we can find them in Africa or usually rather old and they have the “mission” to tramsit the values and “myths” of a culture, a people accross ages. They are the “living memories”.

I really think that they have nothing in common!

]]> By: Ayla http://laughingmeme.org/2008/12/08/griots/comment-page-1/#comment-623773 Ayla Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:44:33 +0000 http://laughingmeme.org/?p=4107#comment-623773 <p>I suppose a merge of GReek-RIOTS...It emerged some hours after the first notes at Twitter, when some users suggested that all comments on the incidents could be collected and tagged with a specific and common label for better tracking and search from people they wanted to learn about.</p> I suppose a merge of GReek-RIOTS…It emerged some hours after the first notes at Twitter, when some users suggested that all comments on the incidents could be collected and tagged with a specific and common label for better tracking and search from people they wanted to learn about.

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