Press
Hay, members of the press and big bloggers! Are you writing an article about ROFLCon? Contact Carrie (carrie at roflcon dot org) if you’d like any additional information about the conference, copies of our press materials, or would like to arrange an interview of some kind. OR, if you wrote an article, blogpost, and/or made a video (or something), and it’s not listed here, hit me up!
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The ROFL Aftermath
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Full ROFLCon Coverage from Wired’s Underwire Blog
Full ROFLCon Coverage from NPR’s The Bryant Park Project Blog
Full ROFLCon Coverage from CBC Radio’s Spark Blog
Full ROFLCon Coverage from Rocketboom
The New Fame: Internet Celebrity (CNN)
The Internet, in Real Life (CNN)
My ROFLCon Weekend: Breakfast with Tron Guy (NPR, The Bryant Park Project; with audio)
Tron Guy, Meet Cheezburger at ROFLCon (NPR, the Bryant Park Project; with audio)
Web Celebs Consider Their Role (Boston Globe)
LOL in the Family (Boston Phoenix)
Highlights from ROFLCon (Super Deluxe Blog)
ROFLCon! (Boston Globe, the Brainiac)
Conference Celebrates Internet Pop Culture (Harvard Crimson)
ROFLCon Explores the Art of LOLing (Harvard Crimson)
Are Tron Guy and xkcd the Future of Internet Celebrity? (io9)
My Young, White, and Nerdy Boys, Let Me Show You Them (Valleywag)
Brawndo, the Irony Mutilator (Valleywag)
Behind the Memes with ROFLCon’s Biggest Cewebrities (Wired)
Meme Brains Discuss What Makes Lolcats Funny (Telegraph)
Barbarian Group Rocks ROFLCon with Closing VIP Party (Adrants)
Meme Genies and a Meeting of Minds (Guardian)
ROFLCon Final Session: Cult Leaders (Guardian)
ROFLCon: Life is a LOLercoaster (Guardian)
ROFLCon: Weinberger and the Internet’s Flukes (Guardian)
ROFLections on a Conference (MSNBC, Clicked)
Reflections on ROFLCon (USA Today, Pop Candy)
Let’s LOL It Up (Portland Press Herald, NXT)
Toronto’s Unknown Comics (Eyeweekly)
Fighting the Anonymous Fight (Portland Press Herald, NXT)
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Pre-ROFL Coverage
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Internet Celebrities Gather to Swap Memes (Guardian UK)
ROFLCon: Internet’s Cutting Edge Comes to MIT (Boston Herald)
Rick-Rolling: An Action Primer for the Uninitiated (Bryant Park Project, NPR)
Internet Stars to Visit Boston (Harvard Crimson, FM)
Rolling on the Floor Laughing Convention (Bostonist)
Net Event Sells Out (Nashua Telegraph)
ROFLCon (Boston Globe, The Brainiac)
Web Humour: A Guide to Rick-Rolling (MSN UK)
Famous Internet Memes to Gather at ROFLCon 2008 (Wired.com, The Underwire)
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See what others have been saying about us!
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“The most anticipated, talked about event of the year.”
“From lolcats to goatse to the Zidane headbutt, I’ve been at least tenuously linked to some of the web’s most notable and notorious memes. Naturally, when I heard about ROFLCon, a conference being organized at Harvard to celebrate online memes and celebrities, I knew I had to be there.”
“In what could turn out to be just about the greatest convention in the history of conventions, the organizers of ROLFCon are attempting to assemble all the famous internet memes and icons in one place. ”
“Virgin fest.”
“Oh god, ROFLCon. Promise me something? Please have free condoms well-stocked throughout the weekend. I don’t want any of these people breeding with each other.”
— Gavin Baker, Friend of Harvard Free Culture
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