Molly interviews Charlie Schmidt, the original Keyboard Cat video creator, and Brad O’Farrell, creator of the Play Him Off Keyboard Cat meme, at ROFLcon II where Charlie & Brad met each other for the first time after doing business together for over a year. Assets: Charlie Schmidt’s Keyboard Cat, mid 80’s computer, mime, wheelchair keyboard cat, Apple II, videogum, catnip, fish, mouse. This episode is hydrated by vitaminwater!
moot from 4chan, Ben Huh founder of the Cheezburger Network, Jamie Wilkinson and Kenyatta Cheese from Know Your Meme, and Greg Rutter of Youshouldhaveseenthis.com discuss “Mainstreaming the Web” at ROFLcon II. Molly also interviews Tim Hwang, founder of ROFLcon & Jonah Peretti, founder of BuzzFeed and co-founder of the Huffington Post on this subject. Assets: Pile of Money, Money Roll, Smaller Pile of Money, Money Sign, Money, I Has It! Lolcat, Three Keyboard Cat Moon, monster lolcat, the internet the picture, lolcat 3, roflcon shot. This episode is hydrated by vitaminwater!
Molly interviews David DeVore and his son David, of the viral video hit David After Dentist at ROFLCon II in Cambridge, MA. Assets: tosh.o, graph, david after dentist, david on today show, operation smile, operation smile shot, DAD on CNN, DAD on Fox, DAD in Huffington Post, DAD in Washington Post, Tyra Banks. This episode is hydrated by vitaminwater!
Molly interviews the Gregory Brothers - Andrew, Michael, Evan, and Sarah about their popular series Auto-Tune the News at ROFLCon II. This episode is hydrated by vitaminwater!
Rocketboom coverage of 2009 ROFLThing NYC: Font designer Vincent Connare talks about the history of his most famous work, Comic Sans. Music by Podington Bear.
Rocketboom coverage of 2009 ROFLThing NYC: Joanne interviews Jason Scott about Sockington the Cat, the most popular cat on Twitter. Story links: Huzzah Socks Army, Rudy the Parrot, Rainy the Horse, Sockington Pics. More great music by Podington Bear.
Rocketboom coverage of 2009 ROFLThing NYC: Joanne interviews Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit. Awesome music by Podington Bear.
Final ROFLCon video for 2008, Kyle Macdonald of One Red Paperclip talks with Sarah Meyers of Pop17 about his book. Also, help Kyle find out who these guys are at who are these guys dot com. Music from Podington Bear. SEE ROFLCON VIDEO POOL.
Story Links: David Weinberger at ROFLcon with a lecture on fame, Music: Flutterbee by Podington Bear.
Jason Scott of Textfiles walks us through a history of online linguistics at ROFLCon 2008, Special appearance by Steve Garfield, Music: Pives and Flarinet by Podington Bear.
Ian Spector of Chuck Norris Facts at ROFLCon, Biographical information about Chuck Norris, The Book about The Truth About Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris sues Chuck Norris Facts, Vin Diesel Facts, Snakes on a Plane at IMDB, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Chuck Norris in Delta Force 2, Something Awful Forums, College Humor, William Morris Agency
Story Links: Jay Maynard the Tron Guy at the ROFLcon conference, MIT. The classic tron costume page that led everyone awry. Where The Hell Is Matt? Special music thanks to podington bear, ham radio by rtpalovich, Tron on ebay, Tron Arcade, Tron Trailer (redux), Tron (imdb)
story links: King Alfonso of Portugal, A woman was spotted yesterday reading today’s paper, Solar Cycle #24 begins, Fox Business News Network watched by only 6,300 people per day at any give time (example video), Jay Leno back on TV without his writers, Classic Tootsie Roll Commercial, ROFL-con, Tron Guy, I Can Has Cheeseburger?, Fark, 4chan, Where the Hell is Matt, Homestar Runner, Rocketboom iPhone Webapp, Erik Herz demonstrates Rocketboom streaming online from iPod touch to TV
