LOLcats in The Wall Street Journal

by Scott Beale on August 25, 2007 · 5 comments

Oh Noes!

Back in June I spoke with Aaron Rutkoff about a story he was witting about LOLcats for the Wall Street Journal. I thought, now this is going to be hilarous, The Wall Street Journal attempting to explain LOLcats to the corporate world. Well, the article was published in today’s Wall Street Journal Online in Aaron’s “Time Waster” column: “With ‘LOLcats’ Internet Fad, Anyone Can Get In on the Joke”

I Can Has Cheezburger

In the article, Aaron interviews Eric Nakagawa, the computer programmer living in Hawaii who started the LOLcat clearinghouse I Can Has Cheezburger and he also talked to veteran blogger Anil Dash, who wrote the great “Cats Can Has Grammar” essay on LOLcats back in April. The WSJ article also links to my LOL roundup post: “Roll Your Own LOL, Not Just For Cats Anymore”.

photo credit: Matt (I Can Has Cheezburger) & Scott Beale

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1 matrix August 26, 2007 at 1:21 am

Don’t miss Catsynth.com’s LOLCats:
Convoy the Cat and the Therakitty.

And of course there are more Cats featured on the site.

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2 leah August 27, 2007 at 5:09 am

The Journal article has now inspired this internet comic from Mumbo Gumbo:

http://www.itgumbo.com/mumbogumbo/2007/08/lolcats_hits_big_time_in_wall.php

This comic wonders what will happen when the power of LOLcats is harnessed for motivation in the corporate setting.

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