AP Drops LOLcat Talks, Can Haz Journalistic Integrity
The Associated Press has seemingly been undergoing some sort of nervous breakdown over the last couple of years. In between being usurped by Twitter as the premier source of breaking news and battling it out with aggregators like Google, the wire service has lost sight of what is truly important: integrity. At least that's what we assume following the collapse of talks between the AP and Pet ...
Since President Obama's campaign for the Oval Office began back in 2007, we've known that politicians have been made aware of this whole Internet thing, and have found that it can be a useful tool for spreading their truths, half-truths and lies. We've written recently about Obama's new iPhone app, and even how the septuagenarian Senator Ike Skelton has taken to the "Twitters" (Obama's coinage) in ...
Of all the Internet memes that have come and gone in the years we've been online, few have provided more laughs than LOLCats -- the bizarre but compelling act of taking silly pictures of cats and applying even sillier captions. While there is some historic basis to the trend, it was all created by Happycat -- at least, it was according to this family tree created by a student named Helene Dams at ...
The lolcats fad simply refuses to die. Case in point, "I Can Has Cheezburger," the go-to Web site for pictures of cats with funny captions and poor grammar, is not only seeing increased traffic with every month, but it's actually making money. Shortly after the site launched in January of 2007, it was snatched up by a company called Pet Holdings Inc., which has miraculously been able to turn ...









