I done wrote a short piece in today’s Crikey email about the UoEB meme.
What next? Meme, the musical, starring Bumcrabb and Bolt
Twenty four hours is a long time in today’s interconnected, intertubed world. Once upon a time a throwaway, smart-arse remark by a panelist on a political TV chat show would take days to grow into a meme, relying on being quoted in newspaper columns and replayed on evening news. But in the age of Twitter it takes only 24 hours for that smart-arse remark to go from being uttered on Insiders to being printed on a T-shirt and plastered all over the blogosphere.
Groupthink Couture Pty Ltd has also released some new t-shirts, as referenced in the article.
Keep Bolt close to your heart