CulturePopp climbing to the top of social news gossip
Amit Chowdhry | Wednesday September 20, 2006 | 387 views
CulturePopp.com is a website that takes celebrity headline news stories and summarizes them in no more than a couple paragraphs in post format, then has users give these posts Love or Hate points and are given the opportunity to leave comments. The original news article sources are placed next to the posts as well. A majority of these posts are witty so that makes using the website fun to use.
For example, one post is labeled, “Napoleon Dynamite’ star and wife expecting: ‘Jon Heder is expecting. It’s rumored that the child is being bred for its skills in magic.’” For those who haven’t seen the Napoleon Dynamite, the last sentence refers to Napoleon, a character played by Heder, explaining in the movie why a liger is his most favorite animal. Because “It’s like a lion and a tiger mixed… bred for its skills in magic.”
CulturePopp also has the option of sorting stories by the ones that have “much love” and the ones that have “much hate.” You are also able to sort by the most recent “fresh stories,” “most poppular” and “buzz worthy.”
The one problem that I see with this website as of right now is that their DIV tags in their code is misaligning their rating system so its placed over the posts in Internet Explorer, but the site seems to be working correctly in Firefox which probably deters a lot of users. However, I have a feeling that this site will pick-up after a few errors are corrected and more celebrity gossip articles are added.
Although it is difficult to find information about the owner of the website, it looks as if though Leon is the mastermind behind the site as he is the one that has been submitting the most stories to CulturePopp. There is also a blog at the bottom of his page linking to the blog, fallenrogue.
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