Strange News Is Good News at DavesDaily.com
TAMARAC, Fla., Feb. 3, 2006 -- Wars, scandals,
weapons and disasters: There’s nothing funny about the news these days. Well, not
the nightly news, anyway. Lucky for millions of Web surfers, there’s
Dave’s Daily (http://www.davesdaily.com), where funny, strange
and downright bizarre are the only prerequisites for a good news
story.
The five-year-old site compiles the best news, video clips and
photos from around the world and serves up fresh links each day.
Hard news, it isn't.
Take the obscure AP story about burglars
in New Mexico who broke into a high school and made off with
20 rifles used in ROTC drills,
never realizing the rifles were little more than ceremonial props.
Or the BBC News report about a guy in Scotland who was fined after
his dog "fouled" the pavement, only to be cited for littering
when he tore up the ticket in protest. Both are funny enough to
make it to Dave's Daily. Nuclear weapons in Iran? Not so much.
Of course, Dave's Daily goes way beyond funny. There's also bizarre
news--as in the case of Washington, Pennsylvania, which has temporarily
changed its name to Steeler, Pennsylvania to show which team it
supports in Super Bowl XL--and strange news, which differs from
bizarre news by degrees of strangeness. Most photos, videos and
news links are submitted by Dave's Daily viewers.
Perhaps humor is just what people are looking
for in their daily dose of news. According to venerable Web site
traffic and popularity
tracking company Alexa®, Dave's Daily is the 2,858th most visited
site on the Internet as of Feb. 1, 2006. What's more, the site
logs over one million page views daily.
"I started Dave's Daily back in December 2000 as just a small
site to build an e-mail newsletter to spread funny, strange and
bizarre news and pictures," explained Dave's Daily founder
David Scott. "It started to grow and eventually turned into
a full entertainment site."
In fact, the site now employs four people and is viewed every
day in countries all over the world. In the case of Dave's Daily,
it appears the old chestnut is true: Laugh and the world laughs
with you.
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