CurrentTV’s Segment on Jay Maynard, the Tron Guy

During ROFLCon, you may have seen Tron Guy walking around with his own dedicated camera crew. This wasn’t any mistake — CurrentTV was shooting a segment with the amazing Jean Nagy exclusively on Jay and his experiences at the conference. It’s recently posted, and It. Is. Amazing. Check it out:

Comment Thread for “Comment Thread”

(photo by remisser, CC BY SA)

Some of you who attended the final session of ROFLCon may remember the trolling (thanks Zotnix!) we got in our comment thread (not unexpected — what kind of internet culture conference would we be without it?) and the IRL flame war (like, punches) that ensued.

This “real” comment thread with the Anons may interest you.

[Videos of the referenced Anon panel here]

The Video Situation

(picture courtesy Dave Fisher, photo CC BY NC SA)

We’ve been getting lots of questions about video from the conference. Luckily, the various ROFLCon-Respectably French camera crews swarming around the event doing streaming also were simultaneously capturing the entire conference in hundred and hundred of delicious gigabytes of video for posterity. So if you didn’t catch a few panels you really wanted to, or need to show your lame friend who didn’t go something: rest assured, it’ll be available soon.

The good news: true to our Free Culture stripes, it’s going to be all released on a CC BY SA license, which means you’re free to share it, copy it, remix it, or use it for whatever gawd dang thing you please, so long as you credit it (and let people do the same).

The less exciting news: Dean and our video guys are meeting up over the weekend/next week to discuss the best way of posting this. Needless to say, it’s alot of material, so we’re working out hosting issues. Expect some delays (though we’ll alert everyone when it’s all good to go). There’ll be clips popping up over here in the immediate future, so stay tuned…

[Update: it’s also been pointed out to me right now that searching YouTube brings up a bunch of partial video recorded at the event (and almost the entirety of the Anonymous panel. And, of course, there’s always the odd clip or two on our flickr pool]

Reddit-ROFLCon Online Q&A for Randall Munroe of Xkcd Open!

The entire team’s been rushing around getting the final bric-a-brac in a row for the conference like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off, so this announcement is coming in a little late, but heads up from Alexis that Randall Munore of Xkcd fame is this weeks guest spotlight at our last weekly online Q&A with the internet superstars. (You can still check out past questions with Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content, and Cheez from I Can Haz Cheezburger).

Submit questions, leave snarky comments, and vote up/down stuff at our custom Reddit here.

Man, one week left — it’s go time.