Cats and computers

I've been immersed or submerged or whatever the right word is in working on the pet food recall story, which is breaking my heart... but the SF Chronicle website just published an article I wrote on people who role-play online as their cats. It has a great recipe for Mouse Rolls, too.

In a sea of the über-hip at Austin's South by Southwest Festival last week,  I was talking to SXSW panelist and blogger Liz Henry and mentioned MeowChatters, people who role-play online as their cats.

So did she laugh scornfully and make fun of the crazy cat ladies? She did not. She nodded, her eyes lighting up, and encouraged me to add information about the phenomenon to her wiki on fictional blogging.

Her curiosity made me think back to its beginnings. I first became aware of the existence of MeowChat in the mid-90s, when I was running the Pet Care Forum on America Online, but the exact moment a cat first learned to use a computer is not known.

Full article here.

Now, back to the downside of my job.

Comments

[Merlin, Shadow, Ko Ko]

We thank you fer the informasion on 'beans pretending to be cats. We will watch out for these imposters or poseurs, whichefur they may be.