This talk that I gave at SXSW 2009.

1. The State of the Internet Memescape
2008 - 2010
Sunday, March 22, 2009

2. Hey Kids, New Big Thing:
“Internet Relay Chat”
freenode: #memescape
Sunday, March 22, 2009

3. Sunday, March 22, 2009

4. Sunday, March 22, 2009

5. Sunday, March 22, 2009

6. Sunday, March 22, 2009

7. Sunday, March 22, 2009

8. 2008 ?
Sunday, March 22, 2009

9. Sunday, March 22, 2009

10. Sunday, March 22, 2009

11. Sunday, March 22, 2009

12. Sunday, March 22, 2009

13. Sunday, March 22, 2009

14. Sunday, March 22, 2009

15. Sunday, March 22, 2009

16. Sunday, March 22, 2009

17. Sunday, March 22, 2009

18. Sunday, March 22, 2009

19. Sunday, March 22, 2009

20. Sunday, March 22, 2009

21. Sunday, March 22, 2009

22. Sunday, March 22, 2009

23. Sunday, March 22, 2009

24. Sunday, March 22, 2009

25. Sunday, March 22, 2009

26. Sunday, March 22, 2009

27. Sunday, March 22, 2009

28. Sunday, March 22, 2009

29. Sunday, March 22, 2009

30. Sunday, March 22, 2009

31. Sunday, March 22, 2009

32. Sunday, March 22, 2009

33. Sunday, March 22, 2009

34. Sunday, March 22, 2009

35. Sunday, March 22, 2009

36. An Intuition
Sunday, March 22, 2009

37. Sunday, March 22, 2009

38. But
Sunday, March 22, 2009

39. Sunday, March 22, 2009

40. Sunday, March 22, 2009

41. Sunday, March 22, 2009

42. Memescape
Sunday, March 22, 2009

43. Sunday, March 22, 2009

44. Patterns
Sunday, March 22, 2009

45. The Daily Meme
Sunday, March 22, 2009

46. Sunday, March 22, 2009

47. Sunday, March 22, 2009

48. Sunday, March 22, 2009

49. Real World Emergence
Sunday, March 22, 2009

50. Sunday, March 22, 2009

51. Sunday, March 22, 2009

52. Sunday, March 22, 2009

53. Sunday, March 22, 2009

54. Sunday, March 22, 2009

55. Sunday, March 22, 2009

56. Sunday, March 22, 2009

57. Sunday, March 22, 2009

58. Sunday, March 22, 2009

59. “Genres”
Sunday, March 22, 2009

60. Sunday, March 22, 2009

61. Sunday, March 22, 2009

62. Sunday, March 22, 2009

63. Sunday, March 22, 2009

64. Sunday, March 22, 2009

65. Sunday, March 22, 2009

66. Sunday, March 22, 2009

67. Sunday, March 22, 2009

68. Sunday, March 22, 2009

69. Sunday, March 22, 2009

70. Sunday, March 22, 2009

71. (Underlying) Patterns
Sunday, March 22, 2009

72. • The Daily Meme
• Real World Emergence
• Genres
Sunday, March 22, 2009

73. Sunday, March 22, 2009

74. The Daily Meme
Sunday, March 22, 2009

75. Persistence
Sunday, March 22, 2009

76. Sunday, March 22, 2009

77. 62% of all Americans are part of a wireless, mobile
population that participates in digital activities away from
home or work.
-Pew Internet and American Life Project, March 2008
Sunday, March 22, 2009

78. Sunday, March 22, 2009

79. Real World Emergence
Sunday, March 22, 2009

80. Expansion
Sunday, March 22, 2009

81. Sunday, March 22, 2009

82. Sunday, March 22, 2009

83. As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said
they used a service like Twitter or another service that
allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see
the updates of others.
- Pew Internet and American Life Project, March 2008
Sunday, March 22, 2009

84. “Genres”
Sunday, March 22, 2009

85. Tools and Communities
Sunday, March 22, 2009

86. Sunday, March 22, 2009

87. Sunday, March 22, 2009

88. Sunday, March 22, 2009

89. Sunday, March 22, 2009

90. Sunday, March 22, 2009

91. Sunday, March 22, 2009

92. 2009 - 2010?
Sunday, March 22, 2009

93. Sunday, March 22, 2009

94. Sunday, March 22, 2009

95. Sunday, March 22, 2009

96. Recession
Sunday, March 22, 2009

97. Boom?
Sunday, March 22, 2009

98. Sunday, March 22, 2009

99. Supply
Sunday, March 22, 2009

100. Supply
Demand
Sunday, March 22, 2009

101. “Nonfarm payroll employment continued to fall sharply in February
(-651,000), and the unemployment rate rose from 7.6 to 8.1 percent,
the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported
today...In February, job losses were large and widespread
across nearly all major industry sectors.”
-Bureau of Labor Statistics, February 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009

102. Sunday, March 22, 2009

103. Demand
Sunday, March 22, 2009

104. Business
Sunday, March 22, 2009

105. Sunday, March 22, 2009

106. Sunday, March 22, 2009

107. Sunday, March 22, 2009

108. Sunday, March 22, 2009

109. Sunday, March 22, 2009

110. Sunday, March 22, 2009

111. People
Sunday, March 22, 2009

112. Sunday, March 22, 2009

113. Sunday, March 22, 2009

114. Sunday, March 22, 2009

115. Sunday, March 22, 2009

116. Sunday, March 22, 2009

117. Sunday, March 22, 2009

118. Sunday, March 22, 2009

119. Tying It All Up
Sunday, March 22, 2009

120. Sunday, March 22, 2009

121. Remaining Question
Sunday, March 22, 2009

122. Sunday, March 22, 2009

123. Sunday, March 22, 2009

124. Social Net Neutrality
Sunday, March 22, 2009

125. Thanks!
Tim Hwang
tim@timhwang.org
fabulousbitches.org
Twitter: @timhwang
Sunday, March 22, 2009