Killer App

A killer app or "killer application" describes an extremely useful computer program, such as e-mail, that shapes the market and even the larger culture. Who Got Shot by Dick Cheney isn't such a program, although it deals with potentially mortal consequences. However, this widely forwarded URL shows how the cultural conversation of the Web is driven by both political timeliness and a remix culture that encourages appropriating and recombining elements from pre-existing digital artifacts (like the CNN website) to create new electronic ephemera.