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A celebration of the riches of the web.

Web Monitor feels like its had a dinner party with Susan Boyle, Ashton Kutcher and 4,000 cats, so that must mean the internet is acting as expected. Thanks to her return to Britain's Got Talent, La Boyle is once again riding high in Hitsville. As for the other two, allow dearest WM explain.

• The MPs' expenses saga shed light on another worrying trend - the language of lolcat encroaching non-cat related activity. Let Web Monitor explain, Lolcat, is a kind of text-speak language normally reserved for captions on the cat website (named after the first lolcat to ever be spoken). As cats continue their quest for dominance of the internet, lolcat follows. With the almost complete, the lolcats website and bankers. Lolcat has translated/interpreted David Cameron as saying:

"I IZ GONNA MAKE U ALLZ BEG FOR CHANGE"

Hazel Blears' sentiments are translated into:

"I PROMISZ NO MOAR HOUSES DIS WEEK."

• If you're reading this whilst texting, attending to your Facebook page while filling out a spreadsheet in the background, New York Magazine is coming to your defence. They're saying endless diversions can create a new form of intelligence. Apparently "Kids growing up now might have an associative genius we don't -- a sense of the way 10 projects all dovetail into something totally new."
Web Monitor wondered if the sheer length (eight pages) of the article was some kind of joke as no-one who they are praising will get through the thing. Web Monitor will now flit o nto the next link or as the writer Sam Anderson puts it:

"my monkey mind swinging busily across the lush rain forest of online distractions."

• Twitter the TV show is being denounced by the most followed man on Twitter. Aptly, :

"Wow I hope this isn't true. I really don't like being sold out. May have to take a twitter hiatus."

" At the news that the planned show might have a celebrity stalking element he tweeted:

"It's all fun and games until somebody gets stalked."

Now , saying on their blog that they're not making a TV show, passing the buck to "some Hollywood folks."

• In the battle between McDonald's and Starbucks to caffeinate Europe, Douglas A. McIntyre in victory. He points towards McDonalds' endless marketing budget as the key to its predicted success in branching out with the McCafe.

• Biologist Dario Maestripieri says in when we're sharing the lift with others as an instinctive reaction to imagined danger and aggression in a compressed space. He points out this is still preferable to how Ugandan male chimpanzees deal with the situation (compressed space, not being in a lift) "when male chimpanzees in Uganda encounter a male from another group, they slash his throat and rip his testicles off -- just in case he survives and has any future ambitions for reproduction."

• Wired also win the prize for best headline today with, "." The photo gallery reveals it's not so much mended more "added to", the artist working on the project also travelled to Tel Aviv to "repair" damage there. Thanks to citizen_lost for recommending this. If you find an interesting link, make sure you suggest it to us on , where we hand by the name of "bbcwebmonitor', or write a comment in the box to the right of this.

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