Where Are They Now?

So, Tim should have a more momentous birthday post up soon, BUT.  In the meantime, here’s an after-school special that everyone can enjoy.  (Well…everyone who enjoys blogs, at least?)  It’s Where Are They Now: ROFLCon Team and Assorted Friends Edition!

Will you like it?  Maybe!

From the top…

Secretly, most of the ROFLCon team moonlights as an organization called Harvard Free Culture.  In a final, blow-out, year-end event, HFC buried a Zune and an iPod in a ceremony that was “part-Viking, part-mafia.”  It was a Zuneral!  HFC post about the Zuneral here; awesome pictures by Dave here.

Also (and this is definitely self-serving), witness: the Tim & Diana Show, hosted by me (Diana Kimball) and the illustrious Tim Hwang.  It happens on Saturdays.  It is usually about 8 minutes long.  It is never called “the Tim & Diana Show.”  Maybe you will watch it!

I can tell you with probably about 107% confidence that more absurd projects will be coming down the pipeline.  We can’t seem to stop working together, so I think we’re just going to keep making up excuses!  Even when those excuses involve unscripted fake talk shows, and spatula’ing wet concrete into red plastic buckets.

And then there are the blogs.  So many blogs.  And Twitter accounts.  And Tumblrs.  See:

Tim Hwang—blogging at The U.S. Bureau of Fabulous Bitches, Twitter at timhwang.

Christina Xu—blogging at ComPromise, Tumblr here, Twitter at chrysaora, Flickr here.

Dean Jansen—heading up DRMisDeadToMe.org, working on YouTomb with a bunch of other friends & associates of ROFLCon.

Carrie Andersen—Tumblr/blog at Identity is the Meaning of Surface.

Rachel Popkin—blogging at www.rachelpopkin.com,  Tumblr at qwerticious, Twitter at arrkay.

Kevin Driscoll—blogging/portfolio’ing at kevindriscoll.info, DJ work at lonewolf, Twitter at desconcentrado.

Natalie Bau—blogging/Tumblr at econgirl.

Oliver Day—blogging at zeroday.

Susannah Roush—Twitter at wombatina.

…And, finally, yours truly! Diana Kimball—blogging at dianakimball.com, Twitter at dianakimball, Tumblr at sleuth.

So many services with unmelodious names!  We only hope you’ll find the writing and pictures and miscellany on these strange websites at least a little bit melodious.

Keep in mind that this is far (far far far) from being a full list of everyone who worked on ROFLCon.  It’s strongly biased toward people with TWELVE MILLION ACCOUNTS on twelve million different services, too!  But you’re the one who asked, “Where Are They Now?”* And this is everything I know, for now.

So here’s where we are.  Thanks for coming along for the ride, and I hope you find something new to love today! Here or, you know.  Out in nature somewhere.

*Actually, you’re not, but: details, details!

*Also, psst: ROFLCon Internet Cult Leaders panel moderator  Professor Christopher Kelty is coming out with a book!  Two Bits.  It’s about free software.  It’s also looks totally amazing.  Nice work, honorary fellow team member!

Happy Birthday, ROFLCon!

Photo courtesy Doc Searls

We’ve been joking for a month about celebrating the one-month anniversary of ROFLCon.  In internet years (similar to dog years, except even more extreme), ROFLCon’s already an aging spinster!  But we still kind of like her.  In honor of this most special occasion, we wanted to pull together all the guest and team reflections on the conference that we could find.  We’ve been calling them “postmortems,” but that’s kind of mean, right?  I mean, she may be a spinster, but “dead” is such a strong word.

Without further ado, here are all the guest & team reflections I could find and fit into one post.  If you feel yours is missing, go ahead and add it in the comments!

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TEAM

Behold! Tim Hwang’s reflections,

Diana Kimball’s (that’s me!),

Christina Xu’s,

Rachel Popkin’s,

Carrie Andersen’s,

and Natalie Bau’s.

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Meme Reflections & Reactions

Adam Lindsay (of LOLCode)

Alexis Ohanian (of Reddit and Breadpig) here and here

Alice Marwick (Saturday keynote speaker)

Andrew Baron (of RocketBoom)

LOLSecretz

Benjamin Palmer (of the Barbarian Group)

Professor Christopher Kelty (moderated Internet Cult Leaders panel)

David Weinberger

Dino Ignacio (of Bert is Evil)

Jason Scott

Jay Maynard (Tron Guy) here and here

Jeffrey Rowland (of Overcompensating) possibly here and here

Joe Mathlete (of Marmaduke Explained)

Joe Peacock (of Mentally Incontinent) here and here

iJustine

Kevin Driscoll (Soulja Boy Studies)

Kyle MacDonald (of One Red Paperclip)

Matt Harding (of Where the Hell is Matt?)

xkcd, maybe (check out the rollover text!)

Ryan North (of Dinosaur Comics)

Scott Beale (of Laughing Squid) here, here, and here

Stephen Granade (of LOLTrek): bingo here, video here

Xiaochang Li (CMS)

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…Stay tuned for more goodies tomorrow, on Day 2 of ROFLCon’s one-month birthday!

Where Rubber Chickens Roam Free: The Rockstars of Wexley

This is the view from the Wexley School for Girls. As previously noted, the Wexley School for Girls is not, in fact, a school for girls. It’s an outrageous new-media marketing firm in Seattle. Weird, right?

Not only is Wexley a magical place where rubber chickens roam free, it’s also home to a couple of total rockstars who have been helping us left and right. They’ll be showing up on the Kid, We’re Gonna Make You a Star panel, so get ready to be blinded by excellence.

Anyway, we’ve known for a while that the entire ROFLTeam has a huge crush on Wexley, and no one’s got it worse than me. So imagine how I felt, two weeks ago, when Katie and Kristen gave me and Rachel the grand tour!

Cliffhanger (how did I feel?!?) resolved after the jump, but in the meantime, I have one very important thing to say. Wexley’s hinted that they’re interested in organizing a meetup (drinkup, perhaps?) during ROFLCon for all you marketing types. Details forthcoming, but, you know: forewarned is forearmed, and also, how exciting is this?

It is very exciting. Stay tuned.

After the jump: another picture, and a few more words…

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‘PLUS LUNCH’: TripAdvisor Sponsors ROFLCon! And rules.

Okay, guys. We’ve been keeping this under wraps for a while. I would have posted this yesterday—you know, April 1, the day when people lie for fun—but then you would have thought I was joking.

TRIPADVISOR IS SPONSORING ROFLCON

+ WORD ON THE STREET IS, THEY’RE HIRING.

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BELIEVE IT.

We’re so excited we can barely contain ourselves. Great to have you on board, TripAdvisor!

After the jump: infinite snacks, employment, Wii, foosball and more…
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