Mike A Davison

FOOTBALL: Tulips edged out, terrific Tigers win

SPALDING United lost their first competitive game of the season 4-2 at Grantham Town on Tuesday night, while Holbeach United’s flawless pre-season continued with a super 1-0 win over Bedford Town at Carter’s Park.

Martin Ball (9) and ex-Tulip Jamie McGhee (25) put Grantham 2-0 up in the Lincolnshire Senior Cup quarter final at the Meeres Stadium, but the Tulips showed real guts to battle back.

Quick-fire strikes from attackers Liam Harrold (72) and Simon Mowbray (77) levelled matters, but a Lee Potts penalty (82) and a late Paul Grimes strike (86) sent Andy Stanhope’s side out.

Meanwhile, Addie Staffieri fired the Tigers to a fourth pre-season win on the bounce against a strong Bedford side.

Another striker, Ashley Stevens, also starred for John Chand’s men on trial.

See Thursday’s Spalding Guardian for reports, reaction and the latest transfer news.

Elspeth Rountree, Kenyatta Cheese, Jamie Wilkinson, Patrick Davison

"There is no built-in way for the web to track attribution," the Know Your Meme team notes. This is why they set up their site, to create a way for people to document memes. Memes are ideas that are not quite protected by copyright but are riding around in the internet milieu. They are what people are thinking about -- in fact, the group says "popularity" is the main criterion of their worth. The group presents the story of turn-of-last-century folklorist John Lomax, who recorded oral histories and cowboy songs which enrich our culture today. Without his work, these parts of our heritage could have been lost forever.

Similarly, The Know Your Meme team talks about the concept of losing whole internet communities when they are shut down. Recent news announcements about the shut-down of Friendster highlight this -- all that meaningful text, all those connections, all the inside jokes will be gone.

Know Your Meme actively catalogs web culture and is an authority on who gets credit for internet memes. As they explain, it's not the person who invents the first appearance of a meme (although "firsts" are another thing), but maybe the one who sets it to a new soundtrack, or the one who floats it around his or her big list of friends. Know Your Meme follows the trail of internet clues to document memes: Coinages, celebrity adoration, kitsch, and bloopers.

Know Your Meme was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 50 Best Websites of 2009, and is widely regarded as the leading source for internet culture information. 

Elspeth "Ellie" Rountree has appeared as an internet culture expert on major media channels, and is listed as a “2009 Silicon Alley Insider 100” and one of the “25 Need-To-Know Bloggers” by Mediaite.com. Rountree has written for the Saving Grace series blog on TNT. She was also a writer, senior producer, host, and co-creator of both highly successful Rocketboom Tech and Know Your Meme series. Rountree has also spoken at many conferences including Web 2.0, Social Media Week Brazil, Case Camp in Toronto. She is also an active member of the International Academy of the Digital Arts and Sciences, serving as a judge for the Webby Awards.

Kenyatta Cheese  researches and fosters media culture and technology. He is probably best known for co-creating the web series and internet meme database Know Your Meme, often cited as the go to resource for understanding web culture. Kenyatta is often called upon to comment on the state and meaning of internet culture by the likes of NPR, MSNBC, and The New York Times. In previous iterations he has worked with the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, and Rocketboom.

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