Encyclopedia Dramatica Sponsors ROFLCon III

Welp – rumors are all true – and it really happened.

We’re pretty much absolutely thrilled to officially announce today that America’s nicest, most family-friendly little community on the entire internet, Encyclopedia Dramatica, has come on board as a sponsor for ROFLCon III!

Just epic. We’re still processing how to deal with it all. It’s sort of like the Internet just reached out and gave us a call saying that they wanted to buy us a kitty or beat us up or something.

ED itself, of course, needs little introduction for anyone who happens to be reading this blog. So, we’ll just leave this here to represent how we feel about it all and let that be that.

Next Media Animation at ROFLCon III

If you’re like us over at ROFLCon HQ, you may have had the pleasure of catching Taiwan-based Next Media Animation’s bizzarely awesome short machinima reproductions of current events: the Tiger Woods car crash, the Zuck IPO, Steve Jobs, and so on. We generally are all agreed that pretty much all information on the internet should be presented this way.

And so, we’re thrilled today to announce that the overlords over at NMA are dispatching Chris Vespoli, the lead writer and mastermind behind much of this work, to represent at ROFLCon III!

And that’s not all! Happy to pair out the announcement with the additional twist that Next Media Animation itself is coming aboard as a sponsor on the event — I have to admit tangentially we’re sort of hoping to team up to produce a piece that features a polygon’d Tron Guy. Welcome aboard, folks!

MOOT MOOTKINS

DOCTOR MOOTY MOOT MOOTKINS WILL AT ROFLCON III.

THANK YOU INTERNET THAT WILL BE ALL

Rahm Emanuel @ ROFLCon III

…and by that we really mean that we’ve confirmed Dan Sinker, the voice behind that which is @MayorEmanuel.

If you’re not familiar with the whole saga of Dan and the role of his deftly-fuck-laden anonymous bit of Twitter epic poetry in massively disrupting the election news cycle of a major metropolis, you really need to get yourself to this here article.

You may be also interested in the inexplicably published book of those tweets. We’re mentioning this because we’re hoping that Dan will relate that time that Rahm himself showed up at his book party and signed the book, “You are an Asshole.” For serious.

You can read more about Dan at his website, in particular his awesome work with the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership, which we’ll be sure to force him to talk about at the conference in addition to the lolz. Excited!