CBC documentary on ROFLcon
FYI, a CBC documentary on ROFLcon will air tomorrow at 11:30am as part of the Spark program, and again on Saturday. Eventually it will be available on the Spark site. [Tags: roflcon sparks cbc ]
View ArticleROFLcon post-post-mortem
Christina Xu, one of the founders of ROFLcon, has posted her post-mortem of the event. In fact, she posted this to a mailing list we’re on. Here’s what I posted to that list in reply: I was there. I...
View ArticleNew issue of JOHO … Now with added Ethanz!
I’ve just sent out a new issue of my newsletter, JOHO. (You can sign up to receive it via email, for free of course, here.) How much do we have to care about? Even if the mainstream media’s coverage of...
View ArticleDRM Zuneral: The video
Alex Leavitt recorded the DRM zuneral on May 25, at which our old friend, Digital R. Management, the progeny of CD Keys and Read Only Floppies, was given a burial at sea. [Tags: drm digital_rights...
View ArticleA tale of two conferences: FOO and ROFLcon
I spent the day and much of yesterday at two incredible conferences. Very alike but also world’s apart. What they have in common is that the attendees at both love the Internet. FOO is the Friends of...
View Article[berkman] Lisa Nakamura: Don’t hate the player
[NOTE: This post uses some awful words because they are important to what Lisa is researching. The spottiness of my liveblogging may be especially misleading in this post.] Lisa Nakamura is giving a...
View ArticleRadioBerkman interviews Tim Hwang
I am a Tim Hwang fanboy. Tim is one of the founders of ROFLcon and The Awesome Foundation. So, I was very happy to get to interview him for Radio Berkman. We talk about classifying Internet...
View Article[roflcon] Syrian memes
I’ve come in late to Ethan Zuckerman’s panel on worldwide memes. I heard the fabulous Brazilian discussion from my spot in the back of the room. Now I have seat and anasqtiesh, a Syrian blogger, is...
View Article[roflcon] Microfame
NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker....
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