{"id":319,"date":"2007-06-08T16:54:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T00:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/i-haz-a-blogg111\/"},"modified":"2007-06-08T16:54:16","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T00:54:16","slug":"i-haz-a-blogg111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/i-haz-a-blogg111\/","title":{"rendered":"i HAZ A bLOGG!!!!111!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I&#8217;ve enjoyed watching the waves and ripples of <a href=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.com\/\">lolcats<\/a> wash over the internet, followed by our culture as a whole (at least my digital subculture). I love the way <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_meme\">memes<\/a> like this get transmitted and mutated at such great speeds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/femto113.livejournal.com\/7232.html\">Ken<\/a> pointed me to a well thought-out blog post explaining some of the recent trends (leetspeak and image macros like lolcats). It&#8217;s definitely worth a read if this stuff interests you (the meat of the content starts two pages down from the beginning, so you can skim at first):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerosummind.com\/2007\/05\/l337-katz0rz.html\">A fusion of sorts between learned, direct language and rapid, practical digital missives takes place with <em>leetspeak<\/em> and <em>macros<\/em>. Both relay a great deal of information in a small burst of code. Each depends on the receiver of the information having working knowledge of the culture and its references. In a sense, these serve as argots, and help identify both sides of the information transfer as belonging to the subculture where they appear. The in-joke is part of the communication. The separation of ingroup and outgroup helps drive the rapid evolution of both leetspeak and macros&#8230;<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I&#8217;ve enjoyed watching the waves and ripples of lolcats wash over the internet, followed by our culture as a whole (at least my digital subculture). I love the way memes like this get transmitted and mutated at such great speeds. Ken pointed me to a well thought-out blog post explaining some of the recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}