FINAL ROFLThing-NYC Schedule

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

LOCATION: Santos Party House (96 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Hosted by: Alexis Ohanian (Reddit), Rick Webb (The Barbarian Group)

11:30 : Registration Opens

12:00 – 12:30: Opening Remarks / Introductions

12:30 – 1:30: Troy Hitch & Matt Bledsoe (Creators, You Suck At Photoshop) on “According To Hoyle”

Description: A nostalgic retrospective on the You Suck at Photoshop experience, with an eye toward the future.

1:30 – 2:30: Jason Scott (Founder, Textfiles.com) on “Egad Tuna”

Description: In which a curious set of circumstances leads a twittering cat, Sockington, to gain thousands of people following his insane twitter feed. His owner, Jason Scott, describes Sockington’s lineage, the timeline of his success, and general historical observations on what leads to fads and worldwide cat fancy. (And free catnip).

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TRACK ONE — Moderator: Rick Webb (The Barbarian Group)- UPSTAIRS

2:45 – 3:45: Charlie Todd (Founder, Improv Everywhere) on “Causing A Scene”

4:00 – 5:00: Jim Louderback (CEO, Revision3) on “The Future of Online Video”

Is online video a brand new media, or just regurgitated sitcoms and dramas in a new wrapper? Will we see a consolidation in the online video space, or will the hyper-growth of 2008 continue? Join Jim Louderback in a conversation with Rick Webb, and the audience, as they explore what the future of internet video will look like in 2009 and beyond.

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TRACK TWO — Moderator: Alexis Ohanian (Reddit) – DOWNSTAIRS

2:45 – 3:45: Jamie Wilkinson (Internet Famo.us), Steve Lambert (Member, F.A.T.), and Tobi Leingruber (Creator, China Channel, Pirates of the Amazon) on “Firefox Art”

This panel will showcase “Firefox Art” — creative, experimental add-ons that twist the web experience (see e.g. Add-Art) — and discuss creativity on- and with- the web, and the specific possibilities presented by Firefox extensions, advances in javascript, and open-source generally. They’ll also be talking about ArtZilla, a repository for Firefox add-on projects usually denied from listing on addons.mozilla.org for being “useless art.”

4:00 – 5:00: Bre Pettis (Founder, NYCResistor) on “Commonist Objects” and Rapid Prototyping Technology

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5:15 – 6:15: Vincent Connare (Creator, the Comic Sans font) on “The Cultural Impact of Comic Sans”

6:15 – 6:45: Closing Remarks

7:00 – 9:00: Break for Dinner

9:00 – 1:00 AM : ROFLThing-NYC Afterparty (Moomia Lounge, 157 Lafayette Street) — 21+ Only Due To Some Hella Lame New York City Liquor Laws

DJs: The Serious Business Crew (Jamie Dubs, Mike McGill, Tackleberry, and Bennett4Senate)

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Other Featured Attendees:

* MC Frontalot (Crown Prince of Nerdcore)
* Jay Maynard (The Tron Guy)
* Max Goldberg (Founder, YTMND)
* Rex Sorgatz (Creator, Fimoculous)
* Phillip Torrone (Senior Editor, MAKE Magazine)
* Moot (Founder, 4chan)
* Darren, Matt, Shannon, Paul (Creators, Hak5)
* Dean and Jenny (Creators, A Frightening Prospect)
* Sarah Austin (Host, Pop17)
* Drew Harry (Creator, Backchan.nl — MIT Media Lab)
* Ji Lee (Creator, The Bubble Project)
* Jason Bitner (Founder, Found Magazine)
* Ian Spector (Founder, Chuck Norris Facts Generator)
* Irina Slutsky (Host, Geek Entertainment TV)
* Amber Lee Ettinger (The Obama Girl)

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Dez
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Was roflthing recorded like roflcon was? Will it be available to view online eventually if it was?

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Yep. All the talks were video recorded, so we’re working to get that all online soon. Stay tuned — we’ll announce all the deets on the blog.

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