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One of the Virtual Village staff’s responsibilities is to keep up with current web trends so that we can be as helpful to our patrons as possible when they need assistance with these programs. We also would like to show them that there is a whole world of internet content out there beyond YouTube and Myspace.

Interspersed with the videos and informational slides on our flat screen TVs here in Virtual are “Did You Know About” slides that feature new and useful websites. We also throw in a few computer/internet related LOLcats for fun. “What are LOLcats?,” you say.

If you are a cat lover and you have not visited the blog icanhascheezburger.com, you are missing out on thoroughly entertaining site. In a mere year and a half, this blog which allows viewers to submit photos of their cats with LOL-speak captions, has become one of the most popular sites on the web. It garners over a million hits a day and has produced the spin-off sites ihasahotdog.com and failblog.org. You can read about the short but phenomenal history of this blog in their Wikipedia article.

These are the LOLcats from icanhascheezburger featured on our TVs right now. About ten new LOLcats are chosen from the 9000 daily submissions and are added to the blog everyday so it is monitored daily in my RSS feed reader and new slides are added periodically. It’s a tough job, I know…