Several years ago I stumbled upon Gothamist, which is a city blog written by locals covering New York City. I really liked the local color of the reporting, and of course there’s writeups about interesting food; this writeup of by Jen Chung about how she ran into Jeffrey Steingarten at a BBQ event is a [...]
Google has been teaming up with public transit authorities around the country; I just read on Austinist that they’ve gotten the Austin Capital Metro database in, so you can now plan your public transit bus trip complete with maps and walking guides. Just in time for SXSW! Awesome! Here’s an example: the route from my [...]
I’ve finally landed in Austin, Texas, for the 5 days of Web 2.0 community empowerment goodness that is South by South West Interactive. I had a few interesting thoughts on the flight over, while I was contemplating the nature of my bad airport meal (pictured left)…you know, anyone with a deep fat frier can create [...]
I like to know where things are, so I again made some maps for this year using a couple different styles. The first shows the street numbers of venues around the Austin Convention Center. If you know the address of the party you’re going to, you can just look for the number on the map. [...]
And here’s the list of events I’ve been monitoring on Upcoming.org. Other plans include finding a cowboy hat that fits my enormously-round head. Not sure what I’d DO with a cowboy hat, but I’ve always wanted one. Date Event Name Status Mar 08 Super Happy Fun Monkey Bash Watch Mar 09+ Interactive Playpen @ South [...]
I just went through the panel list for SXSW and again have had a hard time picking just one panel to go to. In general, I’m being drawn to the panels about collaboration, identity (which includes branding), networking, and making things. To distill it down even more, these seem to be largely the panels about [...]
In less than two weeks it’ll be time for South by SouthWest Interactive, and I’m starting to get excited about the trip. I wrote a bit about the experience as a first-year attendee, finding the festival incredibly inspiring and invigorating. It’s not often that you suddenly find yourself in the midst of 4000 people who [...]
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