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ROFLcon II: Internet culture and marketing collide
It was a gorgeous weekend in Boston, so I did what any self-respecting web professional would do – spent two days inside surrounded by my pasty colleagues at ROFLcon II, the Internet culture conference dedicated to understanding how and why memes work. I wasn’t alone. 900 people had the same idea and, as we descended [...]
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The first time you see it, you don’t think much of it. It’s a video of a cat playing the keyboard. It’s a one-hit wonder from the 80s. It’s David Caruso. You hear the whispering at work, on the bus, in line for groceries. The topic just keeps popping up: a shared joke among the [...]
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