ROFLCon Panel – Internet Fame

Weinberger also (see previous post) stayed to moderate a panel on what it means to be internet famous.

Panel description:

YOU CAN GET PAID FOR THIS?: MAKING SOME BUCKS (W20: Sala del Puerto Rico): How do you make money? Are you making lots of money? Has all that money corrupted you? How about now? Are you a fluke are you generalizable? What are some other ways the rest of us can make money? Please?

Moderator: David Weinberger

Panelists: Kyle Macdonald (One Red Paperclip), Joe Mathelete (Joe Mathelete Explains Marmaduke), Ian Spector (Chuck Norris Facts), Andy Ochiltree (JibJab.com), Andrew Baron (Rocketboom), Alex Tew (The Million Dollar Homepage)

My rough rough notes:
(Mostly these notes don’t reflect how good Weinberger is as a moderator with an unpredictable crowd, including the panelists – he did a great job getting them to answer questions without getting in the way of their natural humor and randomness.)

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There is no shelf

Via David Weinberger’s blog comes this video, by Mike Wesch (he of The Machine is Us/ing Us), which explains the same point Weinberger’s making in Everything is Miscellaneous:

It’s licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License, so spread it freely. I didn’t care for the fit of the music to the video in this case, but it communicates equally well without sound.