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 […]
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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 […]
Today with Matt Stempeck and Stephen Suen, I’m liveblogging ROFLCon, a conference for things and people who are famous on the Internet. The livenote index is here. Christina Xu, event organiser, starts off ROFLCon to cheers. It’s amazingly packed venue: “One out of eight people in this room have done […]
John Hockenberry introduces the Google Jockey team, a group of five people who are creating a livestream of google searches and links from twitter during the talks. To participate, tweet a link to #MediaLabIO, and follow along with the livestream. Our second set of talks is a series of presentations […]