Where Are They Now?
So, Tim should have a more momentous birthday post up soon, BUT. In the meantime, here’s an after-school special that everyone can enjoy. (Well…everyone who enjoys blogs, at least?) It’s Where Are They Now: ROFLCon Team and Assorted Friends Edition!
Will you like it? Maybe!
From the top…
Secretly, most of the ROFLCon team moonlights as an organization called Harvard Free Culture. In a final, blow-out, year-end event, HFC buried a Zune and an iPod in a ceremony that was “part-Viking, part-mafia.” It was a Zuneral! HFC post about the Zuneral here; awesome pictures by Dave here.
Also (and this is definitely self-serving), witness: the Tim & Diana Show, hosted by me (Diana Kimball) and the illustrious Tim Hwang. It happens on Saturdays. It is usually about 8 minutes long. It is never called “the Tim & Diana Show.” Maybe you will watch it!
I can tell you with probably about 107% confidence that more absurd projects will be coming down the pipeline. We can’t seem to stop working together, so I think we’re just going to keep making up excuses! Even when those excuses involve unscripted fake talk shows, and spatula’ing wet concrete into red plastic buckets.
And then there are the blogs. So many blogs. And Twitter accounts. And Tumblrs. See:
Tim Hwang—blogging at The U.S. Bureau of Fabulous Bitches, Twitter at timhwang.
Christina Xu—blogging at ComPromise, Tumblr here, Twitter at chrysaora, Flickr here.
Dean Jansen—heading up DRMisDeadToMe.org, working on YouTomb with a bunch of other friends & associates of ROFLCon.
Carrie Andersen—Tumblr/blog at Identity is the Meaning of Surface.
Rachel Popkin—blogging at www.rachelpopkin.com, Tumblr at qwerticious, Twitter at arrkay.
Kevin Driscoll—blogging/portfolio’ing at kevindriscoll.info, DJ work at lonewolf, Twitter at desconcentrado.
Natalie Bau—blogging/Tumblr at econgirl.
Oliver Day—blogging at zeroday.
Susannah Roush—Twitter at wombatina.
…And, finally, yours truly! Diana Kimball—blogging at dianakimball.com, Twitter at dianakimball, Tumblr at sleuth.
So many services with unmelodious names! We only hope you’ll find the writing and pictures and miscellany on these strange websites at least a little bit melodious.
Keep in mind that this is far (far far far) from being a full list of everyone who worked on ROFLCon. It’s strongly biased toward people with TWELVE MILLION ACCOUNTS on twelve million different services, too! But you’re the one who asked, “Where Are They Now?”* And this is everything I know, for now.
So here’s where we are. Thanks for coming along for the ride, and I hope you find something new to love today! Here or, you know. Out in nature somewhere.
*Actually, you’re not, but: details, details!
*Also, psst: ROFLCon Internet Cult Leaders panel moderator Professor Christopher Kelty is coming out with a book! Two Bits. It’s about free software. It’s also looks totally amazing. Nice work, honorary fellow team member!





