You may remember PopSpot as one of our excellent sponsors during the conference. In addition to filming all of the panels and bringing Antoine Dodson onboard, they were also tirelessly shooting amazing slow-mo video portraits of all the guests. Thanks, PopSpot, for going above and beyond the call of sponsor-duty!

PopSpot has put together a handy-dandy Youtube playlist of all the panel footage, but we’ll also be throwing up blog posts with all the embeds for easy linkage. Keep an eye on the schedule, too, which is being maintained as a comprehensive, one-stop shop for all the links.

We’ll keep this post updated with streaming notes throughout the day.

Update 1: We’re exited to offer high-res desktop streaming! Refresh the playback page to view two simultaneous video streams (when available).

Update 2: Saturday sessions will start at 10am EST due to an omg 9:30-is-too-early delay.

Update 3: High-resolution image stills from the live-stream are up on Flickr.

Kiddos! We are less than 24 hours from ROFLCon. Are you excited? We’re excited.

Anyways, if you’re around in town this evening – come and join us before our calm before the storm meet up. Started by Scott Beale back when we started in 2008, it’s been traditionally a great time to hang out with your fellow attendees and meet the various guests before all the proceedings get started.

This will be happening at the Asgard in Cambridge (350 Massachusetts Avenue) starting at 8 PM and going until they kick our asses out onto the curb.

Also, thanks to the good efforts of Austin Powell and the team of the Internet’s hometown newspaper the Daily Dot, there’ll be an open bar! You are obligated to give them infinite high-fives if you see them around. See you all on the Web 0.7.

(photo courtesy cityrover, CC BY NC)

HAS LOTS OF PANELS TO ANNOUNCE. WAITS UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE TO ANNOUNCE THEM.

We’re painfully slow on getting to this, but excited to make the final announcements before we’re properly up to our gills in the ROFLs IRL.

But thrilled that, last but not least, we are doing a very special session with Scumbag Steve and friends at Know Your Meme entitled “BECOMES AN ADVICE ANIMAL; TALKS ABOUT IT.”

The panel to feature the talents of KYM researchers Don Caldwell, Brad Kim, Amanda Brennan, and — well — and, Scumbag Steve. They’ll be talking about the exploitables phenomena (fun fact! we tried to get Advice Dog for this panel — his people turned us down ), what it’s like suddenly being forced into the limelight, and what life after looks like (see: the upcoming Scumbag Steve rap album). It’s gonna be awesome.

Excited! See all y’all this weekend!

Do your part to make your trip to ROFLCon more convenient, earth-friendly, and fun

How might you ask? Well, we’ve partnered up with Ridejoy, a social ridesharing site, to help you connect and make friends with your fellow attendees! Just sign up and post a ride offer or request, get matched up with other attendees going your way, then share the ride and gas expenses! Click here to get started: http://ridejoy.com/roflcon

If you have any questions, drop us a line or Jason from Ridejoy directly at jason@ridejoy.com. Thanks!

See y’all soon,

The ROFLCon + Ridejoy Team

Yep – unbelievably, we’re going to keep featuring/announcing new panels and speakers all the way to the closing bell this time. Pleased today to announce that we’ve got a stunningly great line up for our Metamemes featuring the Justice-League-esque talents of:

* Christopher “Topherchris” Price, Tumblr

* Lindsey Weber, Buzzfeed

* Graydon Sheppard and Kyle Humphrey, Shit Girls Say

Session to be moderated by the multi-talented Nick Douglas of Slacktory. They’ll be talking about the many tasty flavors of meta on the internet, and the features of platforms that make memes meta like they do. There’ll probably be some pictures of funny cats and wildly offensive image macros going on as well, I assume. We’re vaguely hoping that they talk about talking about panels about memes as well.

It’ll all be going down 4:30 – 5:30 this Saturday. BE THERE.

Ben Huh has had a storied history at ROFLCon. Starting from 2008 on our LOLCat panel, he’s repped at a number of our events – not least of which in taking part in the epic final Mainstreaming the Web panel in 2010 (the discussion on that session still ranks up there as one of the best we’ve ever seen in the kind-of-about-funny-cats-kind-of-about-big-huge-issues category).

Beyond the Cheezburger Network, Ben has been involved in much since ROFL2. He’s launched up a new effort to take on systemic problems in journalism, and took some pretty hefty stands in the fight on SOPA (including one particularly spectacular showdown with GoDaddy).

We’re glad to say that we’ve confirmed him for ROFLCon III! He’ll be speaking about this, and much more on the future of the internet and the defense of the web, this coming Saturday at ROFLCon. Be there.

(photo courtesy Ragesoss, CC BY SA)

Things have been predictably nuts as we get into the home stretch here at ROFLCon-HQ, but I’m thrilled to announce today that we’ve confirmed a late-breaking sponsorship from Jesse Thomas and the good folks over at JESS3!

JESS3 is a DC-based crew of folks that specialize in some of the most gorgeous (and informative!) dataviz ever to hit the web IMHO, and we’re excited to have them aboard the ROFLCon train.

To boot, ROFLCon coincides with Jesse’s 30th birthday, so be sure to wish that guy many happy returns and all that if you see him around.

Also potentially relevant to your interests: The State of Wikipedia. See you all soon!

ROFLcon is looking for a few personable and responsible individuals to give us a hand on one of the two days of the event. There are many different volunteer opportunities available, including registering conference guests, running the information desk, and liveblogging during the panels. We’ll accommodate your schedule and preferences to the best of our ability. In return, you will get free admission to the rest of the conference. Pretty good deal!

Interested? Email us before noon (EST) on Monday, April 30th!!

Deshawn Raw, AKA Supa Hot Fire released the first Parody Rap Battle video less than a year ago, and had us seriously considering the importance of hype crews in our lives. By part 4, which was released in March, he’s nabbed a cameo from none other than CHRIS ROCK. How the hell did he do that??

Catch Deshawn at the “Channels killed the Internet Video Star” panel on Saturday, 1:30 PM in 26-100. He’ll be joined by co-panelists Liam Sullivan (OMG Shoes), Judson Laipply (Evolution of Dance), and perennial ROFLCon favorite Matt Harding (Where the Hell is Matt?) The whole shindig will be moderated by Christian Sandvig, one of our favorite internet scholars, so this panel? You should catch that.

At ROFLCon HQ, the only thing we like more than food is FREE food. What’s that, you say? You like free food too? Well, you’re in luck!

On ROFLSaturday, after you’ve worked up an appetite learning about Supercuts, meeting the foodie champions of the internet, or debating LOLitics, our friends at the Boston-based startup LevelUp will be giving you $10 credit for lunch at any of their merchants if you install their mobile payment app with our special promo code: ROFL.  LevelUp allows you to make payment with your phone (via giant QR code) and has reward programs built-in; it’s our favorite way to get free cupcakes around Boston!

This discount will be available at a bunch of locations near the MIT campus, so grab your new friends and get some delicious nosh!

PS: One of the locations is our wonderful ice cream sponsor Toscanini’s. We’re not saying you should eat ice cream for lunch, but we’re also not NOT saying that.

Welp – ROFLCon III is almost upon us, and we’re all systems go.

We just ran the numbers this morning and it looks like that we will in fact be entirely selling out the event. So, this is just a heads up that registration will be closing promptly on 1 PM EST next Wednesday May 2nd.

So, if you’ve been dallying or have some flaky friends out there – tell them to get their ass in there.

We’re always fond of when grungy local sandwich joints or breakfast places sponsor little league sports teams and stuff in their neighborhood and put their photos up on the wall. The Internet, obviously (and unfortunately), is lacking such a grungy local sandwich joint or breakfast place with which we could seek a sponsorship.

So, in lieu of that, we’re happy to announce today that the Internet’s local hometown newspaper, The Daily Dot, is officially coming on board today as a sponsor of ROFLCon! To our knowledge, they’re the first such web publication covering web communities in a “paper of record” style – and we’re big fans.

Anywhose, they’re sponsoring an open bar at our Thursday evening pre-conference get together next week if you’re in town before the insanity starts! So be sure to make a toast to them and say hello. More details about the where/when shortly, just keep an eye on this here blog.

Continuing our panel shout-outs in the run up to ROFLCon, we’re very happy today that thanks to the combined tireless efforts of the brilliant Flourish Klink and Kimberly Chang, we’ve brought together the titans of fangirl culture for a mega panel featuring:

• Alicexz
• Beth H, BethBethBeth
• Kori Michele, Prince of Cats and other amazingness
• FemmeQuixotic

They’ll be talking fan culture, the hermeneutics of Livejournal, and gender and fandom in the wild and wooly spaces of the internets. Panel is kicking us off on Saturday morning next week. Excited to have them aboard!

(image, awesomely, courtesy Kori’s 100 Idols project)

HIDE YOUR KIDS HIDE YOUR WIFE

I sort of can’t believe that we’re typing this but ANTOINE DODSON IS AT ROFLCON III

All thanks to our buds at Eyeboogie. I think that’s pretty much all that needs to be said about that. Thrilled to have him — more tomorrow!

Apologies about the delay on posting, dear readers! Predictably, things have been nuts over at ROFLCon HQ (we just got boxes and boxes of fanny packs delivered to our house — more about that shortly), and just now getting a chance to catch up with teh blerg.

In any case, since the schedule is up as of last week – we’ll be taking the next few weeks to feature panels and guests that haven’t been formally announced up yet. Today, happy to announce that we’ll be doing a panel entirely focused on the memes and communities around the internet’s Superlatively Difficult Games. Moderator by Jamin Warren of Kill Screen, this panel also to feature some of the top minds working on the topic today, including:

* Bennett Foddy, QWOP / GIRP / Foddy.net

* Jesper Juul, NYU Game Center

* Michael “Kayin” O’Reilly, I Wanna Be The Guy / Kayinworks

While our collective minds continue to wrap themselves around the coordination necessary to beat two-player QWOP, we’re sure that this panel is going to be one of the best of the conference. Welcome aboard, folks!

Welp, now that the schedule up, we’re transitioning over to shouting out our remaining ROFLPanels that have not yet been unveiled yet – and today, we’re happy to announce that we’re finally getting around to our long-standing obsessive dream of doing a panel on the aesthetics, cultural significance, and deeper meanings of the aniGIF. Featuring the amazingly badass team of:

• Aaron Meyers, 3Frames
• Alana Post, Each Day Is A GIF
• Olia Lialina, Professional GIF Model / Author, “Digital Folklore”
• Jonny Vingiano, OKFocus / Le Meme
• Ethan Marcotte, web designer, moderator, and (most importantly) bukk.it

We’re thrilled. They’ll be there showing off some particular gems in their respective hoards of images, talking about why they collect the images they do, and why people still are obsessed with them years after their appearance into the collective consciousness of the web. Welcome aboard, folks!

HAVE AT IT, CHILDREN

We’re excited today to officially confirm that Craig Allen, one of the two mastermind writers behind the glorious series of Old Spice “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” commercials will be speaking at ROFLCon!

They’ll be talking about life after the meme, advertising and internet fame, and the difficulties of trying to shoot a commercial where an outdoor hot tub turns into a motorcycle (it turns out, not surprisingly, to be more involved than you’d think).

…and yes, children – we’re hard at work on seeing if we can get Mustafa himself to show up. He’d kind of obviously have to be our Master of Ceremonies if we got him. Or have an arm wrestling match with The Most Interesting Man In The World. We’re working it out. More soon!

Jason Scott is a huge troll. But, thankfully, he’s one of the brilliant, awesome kinds.

He’s produced one of the finest geek documentaries that it has been our pleasure to pore over (and is en route to produce much more amazing work in the next few years), runs a cat who is more internet famous than you, and is on a mission with Archive Team to defend the internet against the casual disregard (and outright assholery) that results in much amazingness going down the memory hole. Check him out on the Twitters for his bard-like command of the caps lock button.

Anyways, we’re confirming today that Scott will be reprising his role as the ROFLCon resident history mascot, and giving a talk that we’re actually still a little bit in the dark about. But, we know this much: it involves a death, double lives, and has been a story apparently more than ten years in the making. Frankly, he’s one of the finest presenters it has been our pleasure to have at ROFLCon, and we’re excited.

Also – since folks have been asking – we’ve been a little bit delayed, but the completed ROFLCon III run of show should be appearing on this here site on Friday. Stay tuned!

(photo courtesy Textfiles)