My ROFLCon documentary is airing this morning at 11:30 ET on CBC radio, and again Saturday at 4pm. It features Tron Guy, David Weinberger, Leslie Hall and Anil Dash. Yay! It’s also up on the Spark blog for your on demand listening pleasure (skip to 17:51). For my first ever time doing radio, I think […]
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Video of my interview with Tron Guy!
academic boston cbc jay maynard mit roflcon spark travel tron guy videoI’m back from ROFLCon (*tear*) with my computer full of interviews with internet celebs and thinkers, which I’m working on turning into a radio doc for CBC’s Spark. I’m just working out with the folks at Spark about what to do with all of the extra audio that doesn’t make the doc (there’s so much […]
Leslie Hall’s mum!
academic leslie hall rena hall roflconThere was a rumour (on the internets!!1) that Leslie Hall‘s mother was going to be at ROFLCon. I have a theory that awesome women usually have awesome mothers, so I just had to talk to Leslie’s. I found Rena Hall at Leslie’s t-shirt booth, adding the finishing touches to the gold corn shoulderpads for that […]
ROFLCon here we come!
academic boston cbc roflcon spark travelLuke, my ever trusty internet conference co-adventurer and mischief maker and I are off this afternoon on our two-day geek pilgrimage roadtrip to Boston for ROFLCon. We’re going to stop in Syracuse to go to TGI Friday’s, which I’m probably way more excited about than I should be. I’m going to be guest blogging my […]
The new Twitter… is lulz
academic internet culture internets memes roflcon thesisEveryone wants to know what the next big thing on the internets is gonna be… At SXSW everyone wanted to know” what’s the new Twitter?” We’ll I’m not exactly sure, but I think it has something to do with lulz. Why? One word: ROFLCon… Mix up a bunch of super famous internet memes, some brainy […]