Welcome to the ROFLdome

ROFLCon, the greatest gathering of Internet celebrities and memes seen this side of the kitteh-osphere, LOLifies Cambridge tomorrow and Saturday, April 25-26, at MIT and other venues in the area. The Mozilla Firefox, the TripAdvisor Owl, and hundreds of others will probe the hows and whys of Net culture and contemplate its future.

Registration is closed, but you can catch most of the conference through the live webcast starting tomorrow at 12:30 p.m., when Berkman Fellow David Weinberger delivers the opening keynote, "Famous on the Web."

More:

• MIT's Convergence Culture Consortium is hosting a series of ROFLCon interviews, where Natalie Blau comments on the event's contribution: "In general, I think there is a sort of arrogance in academia; academics reduce the people they study to objects instead of attributing them with self knowledge. At ROFLCon, it's not just academics speaking about the internet but actually engaging with the internet."
• This week's Weekly Dig is dedicated to ROFLCon, with articles on the conference and a ROFLized spring dining guide.
• The Harvard Crimson also takes note, featuring Tim Hwang -- Harvard senior, Berkman Center research assistant, and ROFLCon instigator.
• ROFLCon's own press page is collecting discussions from around the web.

The Berkman Center is one of ROFLCon's official sponsors, and there are lots of Berkman and Berkman-affiliated folks in the mix. Congrats to the whole ROFLteam on pulling together this massive gathering.