We’re very happy to announce a slew of exciting things happening on Saturday that you definitely don’t want to miss. They all involve internet celebrities AND/OR dancing! What more could you ask for?

***Dance with Matt Harding***

Matt, of “Where the Hell is Matt” fame, is shooting one of his famous dancing videos at ROFLCon this year at 1:30PM on Saturday during the lunch break. If you are interested in learning a short dance and becoming internet famous, there will be a group leaving from where the pizza is 5 minutes before, or you can just make your own way over here.

***ChatRoulette Bingo, Round Two, FIGHT!***

Dr. Beth Coleman and her CMS.100 class have created a ChatRoulette Bingo game for ROFLcon participants and fans of emoticon-based games everywhere. The first sound on Friday was EPIC.

There will be a repeat session on Saturday from 1 – 2 PM during lunch in the Bartos lobby of E15. Beth reports that initial playtests saw “lots of laughs, participation, and full frontal nudity…” What’s not to love??

***TopatoCo Signing Schedule***

Thanks to the amazing comic artist wrangling skills of TopatoCo VP Holly Post, a wide assortment of webcomic masters will be available to autograph things, shake hands, and kiss babies throughout Saturday at the TopatoCo merch table outside 26-100.

11-12 Ryan North, Dinosaur Comics
12-1 Zach Weiner, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
1-2 Wes & Tony, Amazing Superpowers
2-3 Emily & Joey, A Softer World
3-4 Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content

***ROFLafterparty at Machine’s No Tomorrow***

I was going to write something clever, but I can’t top this poster:

ROFLCON AFTERPARTY AT MACHINE!!!111!!one!!!1!1!!one!
1254 Boylston Street., Boston, MA
21+, $5 cover ($10 after midnight)

(Many thx to Mike McKay and the No Tomorrow team for getting up close and personal with the Goatse hands to make this poster, and for having us!)

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. 

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!

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

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…

So when Rachel and I were in Seattle for spring break, we sidled over to Wexley, and were greeted by the most ridiculous building I’ve ever seen. The color was goldenrod. We held a meeting in the vehicle below. The vehicle was indoors.

And oh yes, besides rubber chickens and indoor vehicles, Wexley is also home to a table that is actually a grand piano, velvet wallpaper, and a larger-than-life wizard.

So, how did I feel to be given the grand tour? A little overwhelmed, a lot lucky. Thanks, Wexley, for making this whole shebang a whole lot more fun.

Some of you may be familiar with “Seymour,” leading lady of the xkcd-spawned project WetRiffs.com from a month or so ago (inspired by the strip here). Winner of the “rockingist” photo, she e-mailed me a few days ago to give the ROFLCon team the heads up that she’ll be coming to ROFLCon and will be lurking around the audience.

Just figured it’d be good of us to give the heads up. As Berkman Fellow David Weinberger notes, “In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen people.” And some, evidentially, for rocking out in the shower while totally naked.

So, a while back, I observed that the interesting thing about internet celebs is that they’re wildly famous without being able to leverage their fame into mass wealth and influence. They have their time in the sun, and then go back to work as normal well-adjusted folks. As a result, they’re pretty affable people to get in touch with and talk about stuff.

I stand corrected.

If e-mails are any indication, Gary “Numa Numa” Brolsma, now presides over a vast internet franchise empire headquarterd at the lavishly designed NewNuma domain. Yeah, that’s right, let’s see it in all italics, Gary Brolsma works full time on extending the “Numa Numa” franchise.

Safely ensconced in his fortress of notoriety, he’s surrounded himself with a Maginot Line of advisors, designers, thinkers, and publicists insulating him from the outside world.

This is either awesome, or terrifying, or sad, or all three, depending on your sense of humor.

To that end, I present to you an amusing e-mail from James Egge, Brolsma’s personal publicist and spokesperson for the glory of the Numa Empire, after the jump.

Tim,

Thanks for the explanation. At this time Gary is in high demand and we
can only consider events that pay him for his time. Numa is his full time
job and with the upcomming release of Numa 3 our schedule only gets more
demanding.

Howard Charney believes that Gary’s video is a key factor behind the Human
Network. VH1 named Gary the #1 Internet Celebrity. Other scholars
believe that Gary’s work was the most widely seen and embraced single
piece of human generated content since the days of the Tower of Babel.
Either way we think pretty highly of Gary around here and we want to make
sure that the events he is apart of sees him the same way.

Per the BBC: Numa Numa and New Numa have been seen over 785,000,000 times
worldwide. Exposure isn’t something we are looking for

James

Yowch. Pwned.

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So how do we parse this? Never got to talk to Gary directly. I guess he’s too busy working the lecture circuit, kissing babies, and getting honorary degrees.

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It’s been suggested by some that this was sent by Gary himself pretending to be a publicist, which I think would be pretty badass. Come on, James Egge? That’s such a fictional name.

Sent back a polite e-mail, but haven’t heard anything back. Hope you’ll be there Gary, even if we can’t afford a $5,000 honorarium! Lawlz.