Press
Hay, members of the press and big bloggers! Are you writing an article about ROFLCon? Contact Carrie (carrie at roflcon dot org) if you’d like any additional information about the conference, copies of our press materials, or would like to arrange an interview of some kind. OR, if you wrote an article, blogpost, and/or made a video (or something), and it’s not listed here, hit me up!
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The ROFLThing
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LOL, OIC, and WTF at ROFLThing (East Bay Express)
Revision3’s Internet Superstar On ROFLThing
Joshspear.com’s Preview Coverage of ROFLThing (And Emily Goligoski’s Parallel Post)
San Francisco Thrillist Shouts-Out ROFLThing!
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The ROFL Aftermath
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Wired Magazine: “So Tron Guy, Gem Sweater Lady, and the Firefox Walk Into A Bar”
The Onion AV Club Interview: Christian Lander
Full ROFLCon Coverage from Wired’s Underwire Blog
Full ROFLCon Coverage from NPR’s The Bryant Park Project Blog
Full ROFLCon Coverage from CBC Radio’s Spark Blog
Full ROFLCon Coverage from Rocketboom
Barbarian Group Rocks ROFLCon with Closing VIP Party (Adrants)
Web Celebs Consider Their Role (Boston Globe)
ROFLCon! (Boston Globe, the Brainiac)
LOL in the Family (Boston Phoenix)
The New Fame: Internet Celebrity (CNN)
The Internet, in Real Life (CNN)
ROFLCon: Another Nerd Party Cracked Wasn’t Invited To (Cracked.com)
Toronto’s Unknown Comics (Eyeweekly)
Meme Genies and a Meeting of Minds (Guardian)
ROFLCon Final Session: Cult Leaders (Guardian)
ROFLCon: Life is a LOLercoaster (Guardian)
ROFLCon: Weinberger and the Internet’s Flukes (Guardian)
Conference Celebrates Internet Pop Culture (Harvard Crimson)
ROFLCon Explores the Art of LOLing (Harvard Crimson)
Are Tron Guy and xkcd the Future of Internet Celebrity? (io9)
ROFLections on a Conference (MSNBC, Clicked)
My ROFLCon Weekend: Breakfast with Tron Guy (NPR, The Bryant Park Project; with audio)
Tron Guy, Meet Cheezburger at ROFLCon (NPR, the Bryant Park Project; with audio)
Let’s LOL It Up (Portland Press Herald, NXT)
Fighting the Anonymous Fight (Portland Press Herald, NXT)
Highlights from ROFLCon (Super Deluxe Blog)
Meme Brains Discuss What Makes Lolcats Funny (Telegraph)
Reflections on ROFLCon (USA Today, Pop Candy)
My Young, White, and Nerdy Boys, Let Me Show You Them (Valleywag)
Brawndo, the Irony Mutilator (Valleywag)
Behind the Memes with ROFLCon’s Biggest Cewebrities (Wired)
So, Tron Guy, Gem Sweater Lady, and the Firefox Walk Into a Bar… (Wired Magazine, July 2008 issue)
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Pre-ROFL Coverage
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ROFLCon (Boston Globe, The Brainiac)
ROFLCon: Internet’s Cutting Edge Comes to MIT (Boston Herald)
Rolling on the Floor Laughing Convention (Bostonist)
Internet Celebrities Gather to Swap Memes (Guardian)
Internet Stars to Visit Boston (Harvard Crimson, FM)
Web Humour: A Guide to Rick-Rolling (MSN UK)
Net Event Sells Out (Nashua Telegraph)
Rick-Rolling: An Action Primer for the Uninitiated (NPR, the Bryant Park Project)
Famous Internet Memes to Gather at ROFLCon 2008 (Wired.com, The Underwire)
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See what others have been saying about us!
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“The most anticipated, talked about event of the year.”
“From lolcats to goatse to the Zidane headbutt, I’ve been at least tenuously linked to some of the web’s most notable and notorious memes. Naturally, when I heard about ROFLCon, a conference being organized at Harvard to celebrate online memes and celebrities, I knew I had to be there.”
“In what could turn out to be just about the greatest convention in the history of conventions, the organizers of ROLFCon are attempting to assemble all the famous internet memes and icons in one place. ”
“Virgin fest.”
“Oh god, ROFLCon. Promise me something? Please have free condoms well-stocked throughout the weekend. I don’t want any of these people breeding with each other.”
— Gavin Baker, Friend of Harvard Free Culture
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