The Barbarian Group and Rick Webb = Ballin’ @ ROFLThing-NYC

Really bodacious news coming out today that our old friends from the original ROFLCon and this summer’s ROFLThing-SF are once again rolling out with us to make some major A+++ Would Buy Again action in New York City next week!

To be precise, Rick Webb, co-founder of interactive marketing geniuses/generators of the cool The Barbarian Group, has just confirmed that he’ll be co-hosting ROFLThing-NYC with Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian. Beyond creating a mighty charming power team to MC the events that day — we’re also super happy to announce that TBG is also officially coming on board as a sponsor for the event!

You might remember The Barbarian Group from such awesomeness as Subservient Chicken. And, if you haven’t yet seen their Biomimetic Butterflies project yet, you really, really should.

First of the Conference Videos Up!

Yow, well, as the old canard goes, “Digital video from conferences about internet celebrities always show up about 24 hours late.”

Or something.

In any case, for the one month anniversary of ROFLCon — the Respectably French folks have done the good legwork of putting the raw, uncut kickass opening keynote from David Weinberger and the “You Can Get Paid for This?” panel up on the Internet Archive. So if you didn’t get a chance to attend the conference, want to relive some good moments, or otherwise, go and check it out! As mentioned, it’s all licensed CC BY SA, so feel free to share/remix/torrent or whatever.

(photo courtesy Scott Beale, CC BY SA NC)

Alice Marwick To Give Keynote @ ROFLCon!

Fresh off her role as a moderator on this year’s SXSW panel “I’m Internet Famous,” I’m happy to announce today that NYU Grad Student Alice Marwick will be giving our Saturday morning keynote! Alice’s research delves into the intricate ties of tech and culture, identity and online social behavior. A hot delicious taste of what you’ll be getting is available here.

Bad. Ass.

Actually, Speaking of David Weinberger

Word on the street today that David Weinberger, Berkman Fellow, co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto, and the awesome Everything Is Miscellaneous, will be giving the opening keynote on internet fame at ROFLCon and moderating our first panel “You Can Get Paid for This?” Needless to say, we’re pretty excited to have him on board with the conference.

I’d be lying if I said that Weinberger doesn’t kick major ass at plumbing the depths of the internet and its implications (references: Authors@Google, Internet and Society 2007). For information on him, you can check out an extended description here, though I figure I’ll sum up this post with David’s “No Brain” description of himself:

Him write good.
Him help companies do stuff.
Him smell ok.