Internet Famous Class @ ROFLCon

Friday, April 25th, 2008

A good bit of Famo Class are attending ROFLCON this weekend at MIT… “the whole Internet all in one place.” Tron Guy, Leeroy Jenkins, I Can Has Cheezburger, XKCD, One Red Paperclip, 4chan, JibJab, and more, the gang’s all here. Follow on Twitter (also rofltags), live video on U-stream, chat on #roflcon on irc.freenode.net. I’m [...]

Wear your Twitter stats

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Aram Bartholl, the man who knows no boundaries, is organizing a “group-performance/conference-intervention” for the upcoming re:publica conference in Berlin called “Follow Me!”: folks will be swapping buttons w/ their Twitter avatars on it — real-world data visualization of who you’re “following” at the conference. Bartholl’s previously made IRL-vs.-internets news with real-world Google map markers and [...]

NYU PhD’s evangelize the famo @ SXSW

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Interview with Alice Marwick, PhD candidate at NYU: “It’s important to recognize that internet fame, [it] doesn’t mean the ideas being discussed in these elite circles make it outside one particular sphere or social milieu.” FYI the Warhol-esque “famous to fifteen people” quote is from the artist Momus, from a 1997 usenet post. Being internet [...]