30 Great Web Geeks

Kennyata Cheese, Chris Menning, Jamie Wilkinson, and Ellie Rountree are on a foolhardy question: to catalog every major meme on the Internet. As the editors of Rocketboom spinoff Know Your Meme, they're doing a pretty good job. Sure, there's Keyboard Cat, Kanye, Demotivational Posters, and the like, but also the likes of Ualuealuealeuale, Domo, and WEEGEE. It isn’t as comprehensive as a site like Encyclopedia Dramatica, but its smoother, geeky-but-basically-mainstream ethos filters out the articles about obscure forum wars and the endless references to “newfags.” It’s not that no one has tried something like it before, but that no one has quite struck the right balance. [a longer version of this entry previously appeared on Mediaite.]