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		<title>Trashy Viral: Spreading Ideas That Don&#8217;t Matter</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m coining the term Trashy Viral to describe the spread of thought-provoking let ultimately useless ideas.  These are memes that might be entertaining (like &#8220;chimpanzee riding on a Segway&#8221;) or just plain media-catchy with little underlying value (&#8221;Twitter is 40% useless babble&#8221;).
The aforementioned study by relatively unknown firm Pear Analytics went viral after a sensationalistic [...]]]></description>
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