A memeplant that worked
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 by Dave Winer.
Yesterday I pointed to a howto by Jay Ridgeway that showed how to connect two laconi.ca communities together. Today I'm going to try it myself. 
I followed the instructions, and it worked. I have a new account on Jay's laconi.ca installation, and I subscribed it to Ars Technica on Evan's installation.
Obviously this is just a first hack at the problem -- there needs to be authorization on the other side, otherwise anyone could subscribe me to their feed and well, that's a pretty powerful tool for spammers. But we're off to a good start!!
Update: There's a piece on Louis Gray's blog that explains why this idea is so powerful.
Update: There's something about the word memeplant that I really like, but I can't put my finger on it.
Update: Phil Windley got the seed. 
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