ROFLCon Day One

I’m at ROFLcon in Boston this weekend. If you want to see a notes/blogging of all the events, I highly recommend John Eckman’s blog OpenParenthesis.

I’m surrounded by a lot of real bloggers and people who are Internet celebrities. I actually recognize a few people from videos of other conferences that I was too busy to attend. I am so inexperienced at conferences that that I don’t even know what a backchannel is. I guess the term has been around since the 1970s.

The opening Keynote by David Weinberger was quite entertaining. The first panel was on making money on the Internet. There were a variety of internet celebrities (e.g., the million dollar homepage man). The discussion became a lot more interesting once one of the audience members pointed out that the panel was made of all young, white males.

I also sat in on a panel hosted by Jason Scott He did an awesome job of presenting the history of LOLs. What interested me was how social interaction has evolved as technology has evolved.

The last panel that I attended was “Pwning for the good of mankind.” It was all right.