Breaking News: ROFLThing-NYC, Jan 24th : Submitted for your consideration: the boys are back in town . File this under “A� for “Awesome.� photo by sushiesque CC BY SA......
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Today, I saw a tweet from @roflcon that floored me. It read, “ Crank Dat roflcon taken down from YouTube! http://tin yurl.com/5 v9mxo ” ( twitter link ). I clicked through and saw the screenshot of the takedown notice, and Kevin’s video (attached here). “Crank Dat roflcon” was made at roflcon by Kevin Driscoll during his presentation, “ Work......
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Poor roflcon kids got their Crank That roflcon video taken down. It’s a crappy situation, but I love their response. It would be pretty awesome if this was one of the results that came up when searching for Crank That/Soulja Boy on Youtube . Don’t you think? Let’s make it happen.......
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November 19, 2008 - THIS was an example of social media at it’s finest! Digg meeting and connecting with their Diggers! People talking, laughing, networking, drinking, dancing together. This is how you do it, this is how you build brand loyalty. A lot of websites are doing this now - including Mashable , Seesmic , Plista , Facebook , Ch.imp , roflcon , BlogHer , Social Media Cl......
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Like Sesame Street? Or rolling on the floor laughing? Or taking your lunch to work so you don’t have to buy it everyday?  If you answered yes to any of those, then this promotion was for you.  roflcon , which gave away these promotional lunch boxes at a technoligcal drink mixer last April, describes its site as “a gathering of the web’s microceleb rities. 221;  They have b......
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So this episode is what happens when our own wacky lady Irina meets an even wackier lady, Leslie Hall. In case you dont know Leslie Hall, she’s best known for her Gem Sweater Museum and her incredible hip-hop influenced music videos, like “Shoot them in the Brain.” Leslie has toured the world with her music and gem sweater collection, but chooses to live with her parents in Ames,......
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Internet phenomenon and sweater fashionista Leslie Hall schools Irina in the ways of proper gem sweater couture. If you haven’t experienced Leslie’s entertainingly earnest music videos, you must run to her site RIGHT NOW and watch all of them. Well, right after you watch our video, of course. This episode is a lost gem from ROLFCon which we attended way back in April of 2008. Episode......
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Big Brown Beautiful Bear . No good can come of this. John McCain’s Pimp Hand Has Gone Soft , from David Alan Grier’s Chocolate News . Dave Chappelle on Def Poetry Jam Season 1 Dave Chappelle on Def Poetry Jam Season 5 Louis Armstrong’s "Super Mario World" . Day Man : Among all the bands who have covered this song from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelph......
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Podcamp Pittsburgh 3 was amazing and completely unlike Podcamp Boston 2 or 3 . I was slightly concerned about attending as I felt that I likely didn’t know anyone there and would have to constantly break the ice but in reality I already had many connections in Pittsburgh. The differences were vast, but mostly positive from my experiences in Boston. Somewhat intentionally and somewhat pur......
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mov | wmv | 3gp | m4v In less time than Sarah Palin has served as governor of Alaska, Ben Huh’s company has grown from a tiny blog to a network with over 100 million page views a month. The company runs I Can Has Cheezburger? , FAIL blog , EngrishFunny , and many other sites that will make you LOL. I met the co-founders, Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami at roflcon in Cambridge,......
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State of the LOLs It's been a while since I did a roundup of the memes, and there's some news to spread, so I may as well get down to it. I recently received a pre-release version of the much talked-about LOLCats book. I learned that it was in production back at roflcon , and the team who originated ICHC created it as a labor of love. It's really cleverl......
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...nfinite scroll , to cover the history of this somewhat new ajax-enabled interaction technique.......
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guest post by mikl-em Umlaut-bearing professional sarcast and net-native humorist Lore Sjöberg has managed the tricky feat of being a “Web 1.0″ innovator who is now thriving in these 2.0 times. His sport is geeky, snarky comedy and his tools are comics (both still and animation ), blog , and talking-headiness (with supporting comics). Lore attended......
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A few months ago, during roflcon 08 , an uncorporation called breadpig got together with OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) and persuaded almost every speaker to sign a brand new OLPC. Then they put the item on eBay and promised to donate 100% of the profits from the auction to OLPC. As you might know the OLPC foundation aims to put these cute little green laptops in the hands of childre......
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I’m here at Might in San Francisco and I’ll be liveblogging as long as the battery lasts. I’m using the Netshare app to pull 3G data rates from my iPhone. Feel free to Digg this as I post content and updates from ROFLThing Here’s the schedule: 5:30. The Star Wars Kid 6:10. Ben Huh (i can has cheezburger) 6:50. Sean O’Steen (fail whale fan club)......
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Labor Day…does anyone really know what it means to Americans (other than the obvious 3-day weekend!)  Well according to Wikipedia , Labor Day originated in the 1880’s when New York’s Central Labor Union decided it would be a good idea to give the “working class” a day off.  Thank you Central Labor Union! My Labor Day weekend consists of me spending much o......
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8/29/2008: ROFLThing San Francisco 9/3/2008: 2nd Annual LinkedIn Downtown SF Outdoor Networking Event 9/4/2008: Lunch 2.0 @ Powerset......
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Mighty is hosting ROFLthing tomorrow night (August 29th) featuring Andy Baio talking about Star Wars Kids, LOLcats micro-humor presented by Ben Huh, Eric conveying an emotion, Evil Berts aplenty, and most importantly, an open bar! Nrrrds unite! ShareThis......
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If you’re free tomorrow and looking for something fun and different… Join some of the Hotties at Mighty for ROFLThing SF . ROFLThing is about internets, memes, and teh funny. There are a couple hours of presentations, followed by a couple hours of open bar (during which Hottie Josh will be djing). More details: 5:30 PM – Introductions, then Andy Baio of Waxy.o......
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After a welcome soiree at the Barbarian Group’s offices tonight, the extra large San Francisco club Mighty will take a break from the club drugs in favor of something much more addicting: the Internet. The web trends group roflcon (ironically named after the mid-90s chat room acronym) is anticipating a crowd of 300 for its first  ROFLthing , a night of short presentations and coc......
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T.I. ft. Rihanna - “Live Your Life” This week, the world shuddered on its axis a bit when people heard the latest leak from the new T.I. album . Featuring Rihanna on the hook, “Live Your Life” samples the infamous Romanian dance anthem “ Dragostea Din Tei “. O-Zone - “Dragostea Din Tei” (live) While it is certainly fashionable t......
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I’m going to be attending ROFLthing San Francisco on the evening of Friday, 29 August. Why? Well, partly because I was invited, and partly because Chris Onstad is going to be there, and what the hell, I own enough of his merchandise, may as meet the dude. Anyhow, apparently I am, myself, an attraction at this little geek-together, so if you want to see me take undue advantage of an open ......
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I’ll be at the San Francisco ROFLthing (an offshoot of MIT’s roflcon) and I’ll be selling some of my crafts. I’ve actually made a batch of LOL-lets just for the special occasion. These LOL-lets were made with vintage yellow upholstery and vinyl (in either red or brown). There is no leather. I’ve posted a small number of the red vinyl LOL-lets in my ......
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The organizers of roflcon , the awesome conference on internet culture that took place at MIT last April, have been busy planning a series of smaller summer events around the US. On Friday, August 29th they will be hosting a mini-con ROFLThing in San Francisco. Many special guests including Dino Ignacio , the creator of Bert Is Evil. For more info, click here......
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