Rebecca Tushnet, a law professor at Georgetown, founded the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit focused on fandom. They were established to make a home for people who make non-commercial transformative works who face legal challenges and copyright battles. People often assume that certain expression is illegal when it actually […]
Daily Archives: May 4, 2012
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What do you do with the massive amounts of data that Internet sites are gathering? Moderating is David Weinberger, from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The panelists include: Brian Simpson is a programmer and admin at Reddit. Kevin Allacocca, trends manager at YouTube Alan Schaaf, founder and CEO […]
Jason Scott is one of the people on the Internet who I most admire. The man behind textfiles.com, he has done amazing work archiving the history of computing through a series of documentaries like Get Lamp and the BBS Documentary. Jason tells us that this isn’t going to be one […]
ROFLCon has talked about microfame before, but the time to complete internet domination is even shorter than before. Memes now come and go at the rate of several per day, and they’re also ever tinier and tinier splices of content: moving away from whole blogs to a few seconds of […]
Panelists: Austin Hall (Daft Hands), Leeroy Jenkins (Leeroy Jenkins), Kyle McDonald (One Red Paperclip), Chuck Testa (Ojai Taxidermy), Christian Lander (mod – Stuff White People Like) For all those who don’t find their way into the drug-filled corridors of mega-fame and mansion-owning fortune, internet celebrity ends up being just another […]