Recently,
Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka of
somethingawful.com (aka the "homeowner" in
Doom House and the "cop/marriage counselor" in
Mood House) gave a speech at the University of Illinois at Champagne/Urbana about the Internet and the dotcom bubble and the basics of running a successful forum, among other things. That speech can be found
here (or via the SA thread
here).
The actual speech clocks in at about an hour and fifteen minutes, and then there was a question and answer session bringing the video length to a little over an hour and a half. All in all, in was one of the funnier things I've seen in a while. Basically, he talks about how the dotcom thing went bust and what that entailed for him personally, how the Internet is full of lamers, trolls, and newbs (not like that's really news to anyone of course), and about how SomethingAwful came to be.
He also does quite a bit of plugging (and spoiling, so be warned) of the new
Mega64 version 2 DVD which is coming out at some point hopefully soon. I have the version 1 DVD and it's pretty awesome. One slight spoiler for what they're doing on version 2 according to Lowtax: Katamari Damacy. I think I'll just leave it at that.