Yesterday, the staff of Macworld—a venerable industry publication about Apple gadgets and computers—covered the company's frenzied product launches for several hours straight. Today, most of them were fired.

Ben Huh made himself a rich man by selling advertisements against captioned pictures of cats that other people created—something of a 21st century Andrew Carnegie. But the "I can haz _____" fever cooled, and Huh found himself with an overextended business, and had to axe staff. How's it feel to order a bloodletting? It "sucks."