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03.16
Live from SXSW Interactive: In Perspective as We Finally Eat BBQ
Were I more of a romantic, I would say Austin is gently weeping farewell as we leave its embrace. My ever-present cynic says that these are either tears of joy that all the nerds are leaving or tears of sorrow as the terrible corporate-shilled music portion begins. In reality, it's just raining.
03.16
Live from SXSW Interactive: Down With Ugly Babies
Here I was feeling sorry for Aaron Hursman of Hitachi Consulting. "Boy, I sure wouldn't want to be a presenter on the last day of SXSW Interactive," I thought, making the assumption that Tuesday at the convention center might be akin to August at the box office. Luckily, Hursman turns out to be an Oscar contender.
03.15
Live from SXSW Interactive: 15,000 Nerds Walk Into a Bar...
The bar at the Hilton is packed. Dinner is soon and the conference is winding down. I'm sitting here and just thinking... who the hell are all these people?
03.15
Live from SXSW Interactive: Are You Trying to Seduce Me, Internet?
Just before Jared Spool began his fantastic presention of treasures from Amazon.com, I bought Erica a turkey sandwich and a Snickers. Erica is a vegetarian and the Snickers would not have been friendly to her blood sugar. It was quite the failure on my part. However, we were able to (messily) transfer her turkey to my sandwich and my cheese to her sandwich.
03.14
Live from SXSW Interactive: Web Helps Those Who Help Themselves
I like our design and development process. I don't love it. I'd take our design and development process to an occasional casual lunch to catch up. I wouldn't run away with our design and development process on a romantic weekend to woo it into making tiny little design and development process babies.
03.13
Live from SXSW Interactive: Full of Macaroni, Ready for More Content
Rachel, Mark and I just had lunch with our colleagues Scott Carter and Erica Burnett at Moonshine. We are stuffed and sleepy but primed for our next sessions.
03.20
The SXSW Interactive User Experience (IRL)
Earlier this week, this guy, this guy, and myself wrapped up our time at SXSW Interactive alongside a few thousand other geeks, where unlimited free booze mixes with crippling social awkwardness to irritate throngs o
