When: April 30th - May 1st, 2010
Where: MIT, Cambridge, MA
What: Another two days and two nights of the most epic internet culture conference ever assembled. Informed commentators suggest that this may be the most important gathering of humanity since the fall of the tower of Babel. And yes, we're still looking to get Goatse.
Oh man, so we are WAY behind.
With only 72 hours left to go, we’ve still got oodles of featured guests, sponsors, and other fun stuff we’ve been meaning to announce.
Sorry, we are lame. Putting this -thing together has been crazier than we expected.
So for the next 72 hours, we are going to PICK UP THE FREAKING PACE ON THIS HERE BLOG
Expect updates accordingly.
<3, tim and rachel
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An anonymous copyright owner lays claim on Crank Dat ROFLCon! Soulja Boy, you didn’t back down from Ice-T. Don’t let these clowns play you!
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!),
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)
Benjamin Palmer (of the Barbarian Group)
Professor Christopher Kelty (moderated Internet Cult Leaders panel)
Dino Ignacio (of Bert is Evil)
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
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!
Every so often, the ROFLTeam hears about a production or a development that lets us know that this conference is really happening in a pretty perfect and wonderful moment in culture. One of the more fascinating trends that we’ve been thinking about and observing has been the gradual incorporation of Web 2.0 stuff and – more generally – new media into more traditional forms of media – see “Web Junk” on VH1, Slate’s “Did You See This?” blog, the really creepy CSI:NY episode about Second Life, things like that. The older world is beginning to see the legitimacy of user-generated content as culturally significant, which is totes exciting.
So if any of you (like many of us on the ROFLTeam) are fans of South Park – an incredibly traditional and classic television show – we hope you watched last week’s episode, “Canada on Strike.” There was a pretty epic fight among several of our favorite internet celebrities, including Tay Zonday, Tron Guy, and Sneezing Panda. We like to think that ROFLCon’s existence nudged this plotline into place. In any case, we really hope our conference turns out a little better than what eventually happens. Like, we don’t want a bloodbath.
Watch the full episode here!
