Fame is ours, says David W.
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David Weinberger’s keynote at ROFLcon. [warning virgin live blogger at work] Fame and greed go well together in the broadcast world of scarcity, he says. You can be famous and shoot someone in the face and no one will ever look into it. [Dick Cheney picture]
Fame as part of a network. Blogging is about taking off the makeup. It’s about exposing yourself as fallible, you don’t have time to send it to rewrite. We pre-emptively forgive bloggers, which creates intimacy. The crowd of people around me, nearly all oung enough to be my children, now hoot appreciatively for a picture of a cartoon character I don’t recognize at all. I’ll ask David.
Famous on the web = looks like it was made by human hands.
But not only. David talks about the “I kiss you” guy. 10 people clap that they remember him. Not I.
He’s a lot like Borat.
He plays ping pong. He lies on the beach in a too small bathing suit. He writes English badly.This is 1999, so his site becomes famous. We made him that way, getting our revenge against broadcast fame.
It’s an “odd sort of conversation” we’re having with ourselves, sharing silly jokes and videos. So now we get to “everyone will be famous to 15 people.”
David shows an entirely unscientific graph of fame on the web and the long tail.
The Obama girl appears, of course. This is the second time in less than 24 hours that someone at MIT has shown the Obama girl video in a presentation. Soon we’ll need a new definition. A subset of those who are famous on the Internet will also be famous to attendees of conferences about the Internet.
David says fame reflects us, thank you that’s the end. The crowd applauds him like a rock star. Not bad. What will I be doing at David’s age (I don’t think he’ll mind my pointing out that he is a few years older than I, though not by nearly as much as I’m older than these kids around me) that will get me this kind of adoration from people in their 20s? What will people in their 20s in the year 2020 laugh and applaud?
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