#ROFLCon Liveblog Roundup
At the Center for Civic Media, I make art, software and social processes which empower people to become more creative, more effective, and more informed. My recent projects include the Festival of Learning, research on gender representation in the news, and tablet tech for social checkups.
I'm an intentional polymath and range widely across the arts, tech, charities, ideas, and education. Before MIT, I worked in UK startups SwiftKey, Dressipi, and Texperts, developing technologies used by millions of people worldwide. I also helped start the Ministry of Stories, a creative writing center in East London. I was a Davies-Jackson Scholar at the University of Cambridge from 2006-2008.
#ROFLCon Liveblog Roundup
ROFLCon 3 was amazing (thanks Christina and Tim!). Liveblogging the event were Matt Stempeck, Stephen Suen, and Erhardt Graeff.
Here is a list of Civic Media blog posts from ROFLCon::
- Friday
- ROFLCon Keynote: Jonathan Zittrain on Memes and Society
- When Lulzes go Global (moderated by Ethan Zuckerman)
- From Micro-fame to Nano-fame: Nyan Cat, Me Gusta, Huh?, and Double Rainbow
- You Don't Need Permission to Create
- Jason Scott on the Mysterious Case of Robert Hoquim
- Memes from the Year 2000
- Too Big to Know: Reddit, YouTube, Imgur
- When Your 0:15 Seconds of Internet Fame is up
- Saturday
- Closing Keynote: Defending the Internet
- LOLitics
- Old Spice Guy chats with his creator at #ROFLcon
- Ben Huh on Copyright and Making the Meme Ecosystem Better
- A Brief History of Web Comics
- The Battle for YouTube's Soul: Commercialization vs The Creative Web
- Further Reflections
- Thinking about the people behind viral videos
- Internet trolls are even uglier in person
There's More...
Not all notes turned into blog posts. A full set of ROFLCon livenotes can be found here in our livenotes index. Thanks to Charlie DeTar for helping me create the livenote index code, which I hope to write up as a separate blog post soon.
Finally, try not to miss Matt Stempeck's blog post of our Thursday evening talk: Tom Steinberg of MySociety Tricks Us into Active Citizenry.
Phew! That's a lot of blogging! Final projects are due in two weeks, so I expect that the volume of student may reduce for the rest of the month. See you in the summer!
Did You Write a #ROFLCON Blog Post? If so, please link to it in the comments. Thanks!
