Sorry for delay, true to form — sucked up by all the festivities of the weekend. But, we’re officially back to work and I’m glad to say that today we’re releasing the complete video of “Heroes of Usenet,” with moderator Jason Scott and a host of luminaries. The description:

Now only browseable through Google’s dirty porthole, Usenet’s early history holds parallels, lessons, anecdotes and memories well worth sharing with the current online world. Moderator Jason Scott brings you a panel of historians, history-makers, internet famous and internet infamous figures to talk about Usenet, the worldwide networked messaging system that showed everyone How It Was Done.

Uploading big honkin’ files have been giving us a bit o’ trouble with Blip, but rather than delay the content coming out, we’re starting to split panel videos into sections. So, Heroes of Usenet is in three, glorious sections (and embedded for your viewing pleasure after the jump)

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

It’s also pretty easy to navigate the sections by going to our main show page. Enjoy! More to come in the next few days. Stay tuned.

Next up out of the ROFLCon II video hopper — complete video from “It Looks Like You Are Giving A Keynote,” our Saturday morning keynote with Kevan Atteberry, the designer behind Clippy. The talk description is as follows:

A short whirlwind tour of animated assistants, starting with Microsoft Bob. How did Clippy end up being the default Character for Microsoft Office? And how has it continued to live on in internet culture? And why did it take hundreds of hours of testing with Social Psychologists from Stanford to build it? (seriously).

And, as before, if you want to glory of the blip.tv player, here it is.

First off, apologies — despite our promises to the contrary, the video from the conference has been taking a bit later than expected to get out. But, glad to announce that as of tonight we’re finally up off our asses and chugging along on getting all the complete panel videos from ROFLCon II out to the internet. Expect to see them popping out on this blog at a fairly steady clip over the next few weeks.

We decided that the first of these, to lead off strong, would be our final keynote panel on “Mainstreaming The Web,” featuring Ben Huh (I Can Has Cheezburger), moot (4chan), Kenyatta Cheese (Know Your Meme), Jamie Wilkinson (Internetfamo.us), and Greg Rutter (You Should Have Seen This). The panel description is:

As web culture increasingly flows into the mainstream, it becomes enmeshed in a crowded world of businesses and commentators. In turn, it becomes more easily digestible and accessible to broad audiences. What are the ethics of being a part of that space? As this process continues, what is gained? What is left behind?

And, if you prefer the glory of the blip.tv player experience, you can also check out the direct link here.

AND SPEAKING of the ridiculousness going on Friday night, our talented and brilliant ROFLStaffer Jesse Gold has put together this fantastically great promo of what to expect from the MemeFactory folks for their performance on the first night of ROFLCon. We’ve seen it before, and let us just say that it is absolutely worth checking out.

If you’re so inclined to learn more, you can also see a longer cut of this interview here. Mike and Patrick talk about the internet, creativity, higher aims, and the internet’s most meme-y of memes: the memebrid.

In any case, this is a good time to reveal at least a small part of our grand master plans: Jesse and International Man of Mystery Randy Plemel will be putting together similar long-format interviews with all of our guests throughout the conference that will be released CC post-conference, compiling an (as yet) unrivaled archive of primary source interviews with internet people. Should be sweet!

So if you didn’t make it out last night to Barbarian Group’s Achewood pre-party, you missed out — was a totally awesome time. Chris Onstad and Barbarian’s very own Rick Webb were in top form.

In any case, while over there, the ROFLThing team ran into Adam Jackson, steadfast lifecaster and the guy behind the blog DailyTechTalk. He’s generously offered to webcast the entire event tonight for all of you folks that we’ve been hearing from who are out of town or are just too lazy to get out of their house and come party with us.

In short, who has two thumbs and is totally awesome? THAT GUY (above).

You can catch all the hotness starting to roll around 5 PST over at Adam’s Justin.tv channel.

Kickass.

Caught wind of news today that ROFLThing guest Dino Ignacio (creator of the much-mirrored Bert Is Evil meme), was on the most recent episode of Internet Superstar with Martin Sargent! Check it out here.

Matt Harding, who had a sweet panel with Tron Guy at ROFLCon, has just released his 2008 “Where the Hell is Matt?” video, and it’s awesome. 42 countries in this one! Pretty astounding – take a look and see how many places you recognize. Or have heard of.

It looks like you are being late. Would you like help?

Sorry for the false alarm yesterday, kids. I am such a loser sometimes. NOW all the video is up. Here’s the missing ones:

-Surviving Internet Fame with Jay Maynard and Matt Harding

-Opening Keynote with Alice Marwick

-Making It Big with Red vs. Blue, Brad Neely, Homestar Runner, and Cyanide and Happiness

All available here on Archive.org.

[Also, we hear you out there dear Twitter-ers, we'll be working on putting together some torrents immediately, now that we've got all the video in our grubby paws.]

So while you people have been out enjoying your summer and stuff, the hard-working dependable kids from Respectably French have been processing all the video from the conference as fast as possible. Thanks to this, we’ve been able to get it up at lightning extra kick-you-in-the-ass fast speeds (visual aid above).

And so, now, almost a month ahead of schedule, I’m happy to announce that ALL (all but two, see below) the video from the conference is up and online for viewing, commenting, remixing, and general tomfoolery.

SEE Ryan North, moot, and Randall Munroe’s boyish good looks!

MARVEL at the assembled might of the Anonymous Panel!

ENJOY Drew Curtis out there rocking that Fark action!

DISCOVER what What White People Like !

All this and MORE available up here on the Internet Archive. Enjoy! (True to our Free Culture stripes, all video available on CC BY SA 3.0)

<3,

Tim

[Turns out I lied: we're still missing the Saturday keynote by Alice Marwick & the "Making It Big" panel. These will be up soon though! Gawd dang.]

Looks like we’re running a bit slow to catch this bandwagon, but the ROFLCon team’s been trawling through all the e-mail it hasn’t been reading for a few weeks now and recently caught wind of Andy Baio’s incredibly granular and nuanced data analysis of the Great Star Wars Kid Meme Crisis of 2002. Superbly worth checking out if you’re into that sort of thing. (as if you haven’t seen it enough already: that video here)

(thanks to Coustan of Extraface for the catch)

Now available, courtesy Respectably French: The YouTube Stars, Anonymous, Work It, Move It, Bang It, Bump It, and From Wordpress to the NY Times with Christian Lander (Stuff White People Like).

As always, everything else is available here or at Archive.org. Enjoy!

Word from Ho Tuan and our video production boys over at Respectably French that the video for the panel “Sleeper Hits of the Internet” is now available at their site. The other panels that have been released so far are also accessible here.

This is one of those situations where it might be worth just watching the video and following along on the Handy Dandy Playlist released by Dean a little while back. Though the panel video includes commentary by a bunch of people doing premieres and stuff at ROFLCon. Check it out!

[Note: It's been pointed out to me that this is also accessible at Archive.org, if you're particular about that sort of thing]

(Image courtesy catlaine, CC BY NC SA)

To make up for our tardiness last week, today we’re releasing a big bonanza of hot raw uncut conference footage. According to our buds at Respectably French, we’re running ahead of schedule on the uploading, so the entirety of ROFLCon should be online by early June (sweet). In any case, I’m proud to present:

-The LOLCats Panel
Panelists: “Cheez” (I Can Has Cheezburger), Martin Grondin (LOLCat Bible), Ryan and Arija (LOLSecretz), Stephen Granades (LOLTrek), Adam Lindsay (LOLCode) with Alexis Ohanian

-The Pwning for the Good of Mankind Panel

Panelists: Dino Ignacio (Bert Is Evil), Leslie Hall (Gem Sweater), Justine Ezarik (iJustine), Ji Lee (Bubble Project), Eric Schoenborn (ACLU) with Lana Swartz

-Jason Scott’s Talk on “Before the LOL”

Also available in a slick ass player form here. As always, it’s all CC BY SA, so feel free to remix and do whatever your little digital heart desires.

(Photo courtesy Dave Fisher, CC BY NC SA)

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)

edit: don’t believe me when I say how badass it is? Check out this post about how much the segment rocks.

And, plus, we’ve hammered out a production schedule, stay tuned for…

5/16/08 – Opening Keynote & “You Can Get Paid For This?”
5/23/08 – Before the LOL
5/30/08 – LOLCats
6/6/08 – Pwning For the Good of Mankind
6/13/08 – Surviving Internet Fame (Jay Maynard, Matt Harding)
6/20/08 – Alice Marwick Keynote & “Making It Big”
6/27/08 – Incubating the Mindvirus/ Kid We’re Going To Make You A Star
7/4/08 – The YouTube Stars / Sleeper Hits of the Internet
7/11/08 – Work It Move It Bang It / Christian Lander From Wordpress to the
NY Times
7/18/08 - Anonymous Panel
7/25/08 – Internet Cult Leader/ Comment Thread / Closing Material

WEBJAM ‘08 is the first film festival dedicated to internet animation. You are invited to join Happy Tree Friends, JibJab, 30 Second Bunny Theater, Odd Todd, Joe Cartoon, Xeth, Low Morale, Its JerryTime! and many more of your favorite animated webtoons, all together on the big screen for the very first time. You can see LOLs, ROFLs, OMGs and even some WTFs. The first show is at the historic Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline MA, Thursday May 22-24.
Join us at this world premiere, star-studded event and see some of the breakout work being created in new media on the big screen. Hosted by Jerry & Orrin Zucker, co-creators of Its Jerrytime!

Space is limited so get your tickets early.

Event Details:

When: 7pm May 22, and Midnight Shows on May 23 & 24th, 2008
Where: Coolidge Corner Theater, 290 Harvard St. Brookline, MA

On Saturday afternoon, a few ROFLCon attendees had the privilege of learning about the history of dance crazes from Kevin Driscoll, the founding father of Soulja Boy Studies (SBS, pronounced Essbeezy). The slides from his panel, Work it Move it Bang it Bump it, are now up…as is the video of the snaps-on learning the attendees took part in!

To see ROFLCon crank it, click here for the Blip version or here for the crappier Youtube version.

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

(Update: For those of you who remain unconvinced about the importance of Crank Dat Soulja Boy, I present: Mike Gravel, candidate for the American presidency)