When I originally crafted the idea of a meme thermometer The context of the sentence was like: Clipmarks is a meme thermometer.

By that I meant that using clipmarks was like looking at a thermometer that displayed the heat of societies meme.

You could actually gauge society's mental health and well being.

Examples of memes are tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.

Meme-theorists contend that memes most beneficial to their hosts will not necessarily survive; rather, those memes which replicate the most effectively spread best; which allows for the possibility that successful memes might prove detrimental to their ho...

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When I originally crafted the idea of a meme thermometer The context of the sentence was like: Clipmarks is a meme thermometer.

By that I meant that using clipmarks was like looking at a thermometer that displayed the heat of societies meme.

You could actually gauge society's mental health and well being.

Examples of memes are tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.

Meme-theorists contend that memes most beneficial to their hosts will not necessarily survive; rather, those memes which replicate the most effectively spread best; which allows for the possibility that successful memes might prove detrimental to their hosts.

There are multiple ways clipmarks can be used as a meme thermometer.
A couple of obvious ones are:
Looking at the types of clips that are popular
Observing what types of clips are missing.

That newsletter Clipmarks sends out is a meme thermometer to an extent.
By clipping and popping and commenting you add to or subract from the heat of the memes.