The Shape Of Memes To Come

Indiana Casey And The Missing Meme
Indiana Casey And The Search For Rich Dad!

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Casey's (IAmFacingForeclosure.com) new videoblogging is interesting, but I doubt it will change his site's growth curve. His plight appeals to a limited number of people and for a limited time. I learned that about my own site two years ago.

This is the beginner's course in Meme Theory, tailored especially for Casey Serin.

People have a finite attention span because they have finite time.
The sum of all people is a finite pool of attention span.
The great majority of attention span is already assigned to things that people care about -

• Their kids


• Their jobs


• Eating


• Sex

But it's pointless to overdrive a meme for long-term purposes. Here are two examples of suspicious growth curves - Breitbart and RocketBoom. Please notice how they've turned out so far.

I tried to "overdrive" my own site.
Compare the traffic patterns of my site to IAmFacingForeclosure.com.

(disclaimer: I've picked up some nice traffic from Casey's plight and you might guess that I consider it a short-term spike which doesn't mean much. But Casey's case (yuk yuk) is an interesting re-mix of meme ideas and graphs, and the crosscut of traffic is a different mix of companies & people than what I usually get).