{"id":3969,"date":"2012-05-07T15:27:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T22:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disruptionblog.com\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2012-05-07T15:27:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T22:27:23","slug":"why-memes-matter-or-what-i-learned-at-roflcon-tech-news-and-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2012\/05\/07\/why-memes-matter-or-what-i-learned-at-roflcon-tech-news-and-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Why memes matter (or what I learned at ROFLCon) \u2014 Tech News and Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s easy to write off Internet memes \u2014 LOLcats, Double Rainbow Guy, taxidermist Chuck Testa \u2013 as trivial but entertaining ways to waste time. At least that was my feeling coming into ROFLCon 2012 this weekend. But then a funny thing happened: After two sessions \u2014 one on Supercuts and another on Lolitics \u2014 it sunk in that memes say a lot about us as a culture and as such bear serious examination.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/05\/05\/why-memes-matter-or-what-i-learned-at-roflcon\/\">Why memes matter (or what I learned at ROFLCon) \u2014 Tech News and Analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s easy to write off Internet memes \u2014 LOLcats, Double Rainbow Guy, taxidermist Chuck Testa \u2013 as trivial but entertaining ways to waste time. At least that was my feeling coming into ROFLCon 2012 this weekend. But then a funny thing happened: After two sessions \u2014 one on Supercuts and another on Lolitics \u2014 it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2012\/05\/07\/why-memes-matter-or-what-i-learned-at-roflcon-tech-news-and-analysis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why memes matter (or what I learned at ROFLCon) \u2014 Tech News and Analysis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}