Fwiw, these items are subject to change at a moment’s whim. We gotta go with the SXSW flow.

Welcome to Austin, y’all!

The guest list really is a who’s who of Internet fame and/or ignominy. Amplifier’s own Joel Bush will be there to hopefully document the event. We gave him a great video camera so honestly, he’s without excuse!

ROFL Con (In their own words)

Mix up a bunch of super famous internet memes, some brainy academics, a big audience, dump them in Cambridge, MA and you’ve got ROFLCon.

The conference is slated for April 25th and 26th of 2008.

It’s a group dissection of internet culture. What makes it work, why it works, how it works. We’ll talk about where internet culture has been and where we think it’s going.

Then, there’ll be parties. A music show, with memes performing their work live. And then a big blowout party at the end, with everyone dancing and rocking out.

Needless to say, this might be the most important gathering since the fall of the tower of Babel.

featuring Nicholas Gurewitch (site, store, Wikipedia entry) and possibly Chris Onstad (site, store, Wikipedia entry).

He offers a cool, quick exhortation for everyone to get in the game.

Future broadcasts will be acts of pod
[They are] looking to make a profit on their shows, creating brand identities and even Internet TV networks… Some podcasters are already quitting their day jobs and doing their shows full-time; there are only a select few, but they’re out there… trying to figure out how to monetize podcasting. No one quite knows the answer yet, but they’re getting there. By the time they do, podcasting will no longer be a hobby, it’ll be a mainstream business model.

If all this is pure newfangled new media nonsense to you, if you’ve never heard of Ask a Ninja or Dawn and Drew and you only know Adam Curry as the 90s MTV VJ with the blond feathered locks and not as the Podfather – don’t fret. These are the entrepreneurs and enthusiasts who are pioneering what some day will be considered the standard.

…So you can go out right now and jump on the bandwagon…Why not make your own?

Why not, indeed.

And as always, support these Undies by going to their sites, browsing their stores, and buying lots of stuff.

Understand How Television Is Being Reinvented — NewTeeVee Live

• Old media in new media
• New media entrepreneurship – making a living on your own terms
• Search and discovery – finding what you’re looking for, or what you aren’t
• Video hosts – life after YouTube
• Access technologies – network neutrality and online video
• Content delivery networks – the real power behind web video
• The new studios and talent agencies – producing and distributing for the web

It is another thing entirely to become so huge that you can run your own convention.

The fourth annual Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) brought 30,000 folks to 130,000 square feet in downtown Seattle’s Washington State Convention and Trade Center for a great experience. Wired Magazine recently reported that this event is now the largest gaming convention in the USA.

Now that’s undependence.

For more on Penny Arcade and PAX:

• Recent Gabe and Tycho posts on PAX;
• Kiko photos from PAX;
• Wikipedia on Penny Arcade and PAX;
• Please also learn about and support Child’s Play (Wikipedia entry).

-JLB