Afterparty is 21+, But Free Friday Night?

So, after a long, drawn-out battle and discussion with the owners over the last week or so, Moomia’s has officially dinged us down hard and all our alternative suggestions to work it out: the afterparty will be 21+. We’re stuck too because there’s no other venues open at this point.

This sucks so hard and we feel like asshats. Particularly because the 18+ crowd is internets too.

But – if you want parties and shenanigans and are in town early, ROFLThing’s got something cooked up for you.

On, uh, the New York City subway system. With people.

Friday night. 10:30 PM. Union Square, near the statue of Ol’ George Washington.

We’ll be there. You should be too.

It’s not too late to get tickets to ROFLThing, we’re giving to charity — check this out. 

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!

Bad@$$

After a long night of drinking Brawndo and rocking out the ROFLTeam, with awesome help from the ROFLutionaries volunteer corps and a special guest appearance by the Mozilla Firefox himself (I’m not even kidding, I love my life right now,) have things almost wrapped up for the conference. We completed packing 70 guest boxes, 700 attendee boxes and the printing of 800 super sweet official registration badges (heck, we even sorted them into categories.) Minor issues like needing 10 extra large boxes, copy machine jams, or issues with crappy web services couldn’t stop our march to victory, and at this point everyone is ready to rest up in the calm before the storm. We can’t wait to see everyone stopping by early at the Asgard tomorrow night, and of course at the conference on Friday. Have a safe trip everyone!

…Oh, and the best part? We should have enough Brawndo on hand for everyone attending.

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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