Event Details

San Francisco Details

When: August 29th, 2008

Where: Mighty, SF

What: So we’re throwing an evening event in San Francisco, featuring a bushel of short talks from the internet famous and other knowledgeable online culture folks on the past, present, and future of the memescape. Like in April, we’ll be having an open call for various celebrities to show up and lurk around in the audience. It’ll be followed by an open bar and a dance party. So, in other words, it should be a superlatively ridiculous time.

Evening Schedule

Registration Is HERE

Press Inquiries, Hate Mail, Etc send to tim AT roflcon.org

kthx, The Mgmt

ABOUT

It was a classic story as old as time: college kids grow up online, decide that it'd be a great idea to throw a internet culture conference, and unleash sheer ridiculousness upon the world.

Back in April 2008, we put on ROFLCon 2008 -- the first internet culture conference devoted to discussing what makes memes work, why they work, and where its all going (and then throwing a big-ass rocking party with the internet celebs themselves). It was a kickass time.

We figured we'd keep doing this as long as it remains awesome (and it still is), so we're already hard at work scheming to put together internet culture events into next year. This will be the place for all the breaking news on how they're coming along.

Needless to say, these might be the most important gatherings since the fall of the tower of Babel.

Really Short Summary: Opening Keynote by David Weinberger

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Kevin Chiu.
Categories: Liveblog.

David

Fame started with broadcasting, where networks had control over who was famous and who was not. Fame was pretty much a binary distribution. Now, the people are in control of fame, and due to our various interests, fame now follows the Long Tail distribution.
We used to expect perfection when broadcasters were in control. Now that things have evolved a bit, we expect imperfection. If something is too perfect it feels artificial.
Notables: Lightsaber boy. Obama Girl. Obama… Indian music video? Laughing Babies. I Kiss You!

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