ROFLCon
The original ROFLCon took place on April 25th and 26th, 2008, in Cambridge, MIT. The guests, attendees, and press all seemed to think it was a smashing success! The team was too tired to understand what was happening.
The Schedule
The Guests
Post-ROFLCon Coverage
Wired Magazine: “So Tron Guy, Gem Sweater Lady, and the Firefox Walk Into A Bar”
The Onion AV Club Interview: Christian Lander
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
Barbarian Group Rocks ROFLCon with Closing VIP Party (Adrants)
Web Celebs Consider Their Role (Boston Globe)
ROFLCon! (Boston Globe, the Brainiac)
LOL in the Family (Boston Phoenix)
The New Fame: Internet Celebrity (CNN)
The Internet, in Real Life (CNN)
ROFLCon: Another Nerd Party Cracked Wasn’t Invited To (Cracked.com)
Toronto’s Unknown Comics (Eyeweekly)
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)
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)
ROFLections on a Conference (MSNBC, Clicked)
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)
Let’s LOL It Up (Portland Press Herald, NXT)
Cash In on Internet Memes (PC World)
Fighting the Anonymous Fight (Portland Press Herald, NXT)
Highlights from ROFLCon (Super Deluxe Blog)
Meme Brains Discuss What Makes Lolcats Funny (Telegraph)
Reflections on ROFLCon (USA Today, Pop Candy)
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)
So, Tron Guy, Gem Sweater Lady, and the Firefox Walk Into a Bar… (Wired Magazine, July 2008 issue)
Pre-ROFLCon Coverage 2008
ROFLCon (Boston Globe, The Brainiac)
ROFLCon: Internet’s Cutting Edge Comes to MIT (Boston Herald)
Rolling on the Floor Laughing Convention (Bostonist)
Internet Celebrities Gather to Swap Memes (Guardian)
Internet Stars to Visit Boston (Harvard Crimson, FM)
Web Humour: A Guide to Rick-Rolling (MSN UK)
Net Event Sells Out (Nashua Telegraph)
Rick-Rolling: An Action Primer for the Uninitiated (NPR, the Bryant Park Project)Famous Internet Memes to Gather at ROFLCon 2008 (Wired.com, The Underwire)
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