Meme

"Meme" was a word coined in the late 70's. The term refers to a unit of information that replicates from brains and inanimate stores of information (books, computers, etc) to other brains or stores of information.

Meme, surely did not unleash its full power when the word was coined then, but today, in the e-world, it has become an almost common scenario. The way information spreads across the world esp through internet is sometimes mind boggling. Collaborative efforts have started to pay off, open sourcing has started a revolution within the developer community (calling all 'eh design architects), e-news has already grabbed us in a big way (think of all the "E-mail this article" every time you read cool things and decide to forward it to your friends). Blogging is another area where "meme" can be very aptly described and defined. Making cross posts, alluding to some one's cool, interesting or informative posts has become a thing of common today.
I am sure all the bloggers would agree to this. The list is surely not exhaustive at this point (but I'll stop here to keep my post small!)

Finally, to think of all this and of course, thanks to Meme, I got to know about this word through Xavier. After all, this is about information dissemination.