Monthly Archives: April 2008

ROFLCon RE: Panel with Christian Lander of “Stuff White People Like”

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 30 April 2008

Before reading this notescription (which I actually reformatted for your viewing pleasure!), please see my article regarding accuracy and note-taking. “I,” here, does not connote a direct quote from Christian Lander.
FROM WORDPRESS TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
with Christian Lander of
Stuff White People Like
Saturday 26 April 2008, 1:30 pm
Dude, how STUFF WHITE PEOPLE LIKE went from [...]

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ROFLCon is over equals open parenthesis.

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 30 April 2008

I registered. I went. I was enlightened.
ROFLCon, created by teh awesome Tim Hwang, went down at MIT last weekend on Friday and Saturday (April 25 and 26). A bunch of popular Internet microcelebrities (memes), industry guests, and academics, as well as seven hundred residents of the Web (like me!).

I’m the kid in the brown striped [...]

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Notescribing, or The Problem of Accuracy

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 30 April 2008

When I take notes in class, they tend to become rather extensive. If the professor turns out to be particularly engaging, I may end up with three or four pages of arrows connecting a multitude of disjointed phrases. I will admit though that I compose most of my notes verbatim, or at least recording the [...]

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