Skiff at South by Southwest http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com Interesting pictures, clippings, and snippets from SXSW Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:45:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.1 en Scott Beale features my photos on laughingsquid http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/16/scott-beale-features-my-photos-on-laughingsquid/ http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/16/scott-beale-features-my-photos-on-laughingsquid/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:41:16 +0000 ericskiff http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/16/scott-beale-features-my-photos-on-laughingsquid/ I’m a huge fan of Scott Beale’s photography, so to see my pictures featured on his blog put a huge smile on my face today! Check out laughingsquid.com for more great photos and the story of how that last party came together.
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Casey and Rudy being interviewed by Violet
On the last day of SXSW Interactive 2007 I was having lunch with a bunch of people at Jo’s, including Mike Hudack of blip.tv.
On the spot we came up with a spontaneous microsponsorship model that ended up providing more than enough beer to make it to closing time.

I had retired my camera for the night, but luckily Eric Skiff shot a bunch of great photos of the Drinkup.
Chris reaching for the big cup
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]]> http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/16/scott-beale-features-my-photos-on-laughingsquid/feed/ Mafe Maria’s Jewels of SXSWi http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/16/mafe-marias-jewels-of-sxswi/ http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/16/mafe-marias-jewels-of-sxswi/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:07:54 +0000 ericskiff http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/16/mafe-marias-jewels-of-sxswi/ Here’s some great takeaways from this weeks conference
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The Jewels of SXSWi
South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) is getting mixed reviews this year.

Gem #1. Kathy Sierra Always Rocks

Gem #2. Leveraging Your Short Attention-Span

Gem #3. The 4-Hour Workweek
  • Analyze the 80/20 (Pareto’s rule) in your current life and work. Focus on the crucial few. Eliminate the rest — ruthlessly.
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  • Check email only twice a day. Eliminate all superfluous daily distractions. When distractions interrupt you, 40% of the time we don’t return to the task at hand (I’d say 80%, for me).
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    ]]>     http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/16/mafe-marias-jewels-of-sxswi/feed/     Whurley has posted the BarCampAustin vid http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/whurley-has-posted-the-barcampaustin-vid/ http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/whurley-has-posted-the-barcampaustin-vid/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:35:21 +0000 ericskiff http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/whurley-has-posted-the-barcampaustin-vid/ Clipmarks sponsored the event, and you can see me in the vid a few times. It’s cool to see a whole day of your life in fast forward!
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    ]]>     http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/whurley-has-posted-the-barcampaustin-vid/feed/     Alex Hillman’s great tips for surviving SXSW http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/alex-hillmans-great-tips-for-surviving-sxsw/ http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/alex-hillmans-great-tips-for-surviving-sxsw/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:50:50 +0000 ericskiff http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/alex-hillmans-great-tips-for-surviving-sxsw/ So you’re finally fed up with seeing everyone else have all the fun, and want to sign up for next year’s SXSW? The dangerously awesome Alex Hillman has some tips for SXSW n00bs. I second 99% of his advice, although I find that my camera is also an excellent tool for meeting people.
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    how to survive SXSW/Wrap up, tips for n00bs

    I’m not going to blog about what i did at SXSWi07. There’s plenty of other people doing that. What I am going to do is give you a couple of simple tips for how to make it through the week and get the most out of it.

    First off, before you even leave, you have to pack. I posted a list that i came up with before hand, but some other things that I discovered would have been handy:
  • Power Strip. I actually packed one of these at the last minute and im sure glad i did. plugs are at a premium, both in the hotel rooms and at the convention center. you’ll need to recharge your stuff…so why not share.
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    Once you’re there, attend any n00b panel they might be providing
    Don’t overplan your itinerary. In fact, try not to plan it at all
    talk to everyone. everyone. random weird dude on the couch (at a geek conference, there’s a lot of those) might be a developer for your favorite web app
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    ]]>     http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/alex-hillmans-great-tips-for-surviving-sxsw/feed/     Throwspace’s awesome write-ups and wrap-up of SXSWi http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/throwspaces-awesome-write-ups-and-wrap-up-of-sxswi/ http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/throwspaces-awesome-write-ups-and-wrap-up-of-sxswi/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:32:03 +0000 ericskiff http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/throwspaces-awesome-write-ups-and-wrap-up-of-sxswi/ Stuart Montgomery attended SXSW for the first time this year, but he’s been blogging it like a pro. Check out his wrap-up of the event including direct links to his write-ups of some of the panels he found most memorable.
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    Well, the conference is over now and I’ve actually gotten a good night’s sleep for the first time in 5 days. What a week.
    The panel on Living in a Spatial Reality might have been the best panel of the day.
    Scaling Your Community was a presentation by Matt Mullenweg, creator of Wordpress, about how to foster a community in your sites. It was inspiring to hear that he, like myself, attended SXSW as his first ever tech conference and just a few years later was speaking there.
    Tuesday must’ve been the day of typography because it started out with a great discussion of typography on the web
    ended my SXSW week at the World Premiere of the highly-anticipated documentary Helvetica from director Gary Huswit. I’ve never been to a movie premiere before, and certainly not one about a font, so it was a truly memorable experience for me.
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    ]]>     http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/throwspaces-awesome-write-ups-and-wrap-up-of-sxswi/feed/     Ashton Brown wraps up SXSWi http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/ashton-brown-wraps-up-sxswi/ http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/ashton-brown-wraps-up-sxswi/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:40:55 +0000 ericskiff http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/ashton-brown-wraps-up-sxswi/ I love seeing the “day after” wrapups because they highlight the “sticky” thoughts from South-by; the stuff that really got in your brain and won’t let go. Here’s some sticky bits from one of Austin’s local style gurus Aston Brown.
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    My brain filled up about half way through but I’ll try to sum it up what was new and note worthy to me.

    Emerging Social and Tech Trends:
  • Showing your community your geographical location in the real world
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  • Living Room Conferencing will be normal house hold thing
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    Kathy Sierra – keynote speaker
  • Make our software fell more human
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  • Use more conversational language. Use the word “You” when talking to your users in instructions.
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    ]]>     http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/ashton-brown-wraps-up-sxswi/feed/     Zeldman taps the SXSW zeitgeist, and calls it web 1.0 http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/zeldman-taps-the-sxsw-zeitgeist-and-calls-it-web-10/ http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/zeldman-taps-the-sxsw-zeitgeist-and-calls-it-web-10/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:22:36 +0000 ericskiff http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/zeldman-taps-the-sxsw-zeitgeist-and-calls-it-web-10/ Here’s an interesting take on where things are moving on the web. Content is once again king, and big companies are finally starting to get the web.
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    Web 1.0 is the new Web 2.0.
    Ficlets, for example, is a collaborative fiction site put together by Cyndi Li and her colleagues. It’s awesomely cool. But instead of being something Cyndi and her colleagues do at night, after their day job, Ficlets is their day job.
    Not long ago, giants like AOL were buying startups like Brian Alvey and Jason Calacanis’s Weblogs Inc. network. That was smart. Now the giants are creating their own startups and networks. That’s also smart,
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    ]]>     http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/zeldman-taps-the-sxsw-zeitgeist-and-calls-it-web-10/feed/     Jose Castillo gives you 5 tips for fixing your lame podcast http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/jose-castillo-gives-you-5-tips-for-fixing-your-lame-podcast/ http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/jose-castillo-gives-you-5-tips-for-fixing-your-lame-podcast/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:15:04 +0000 ericskiff http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/jose-castillo-gives-you-5-tips-for-fixing-your-lame-podcast/ I hung out with Jose tuesday, and was upset that I missed his panel. Thankfully, nearly everything at SXSW is going to be available through the podcast, so I’ll be able to catch up over the next few days.
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    5 Tips to Make Your Lame Podcast Listenable (I know listenable isn’t a word)is up and listenable as anaudio podcast from the sxsw site. Click here to listen to theinteractive session.The 15 tshirts that were made for the show were a huge hit. Check out the flickr fotos (search for lame podcast) to see some of the lucky wearers.
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    ]]>     http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/15/jose-castillo-gives-you-5-tips-for-fixing-your-lame-podcast/feed/     Siliconera reviews the upcoming DS browser from Opera http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/13/siliconera-reviews-the-upcoming-ds-browser-from-opera/ http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/13/siliconera-reviews-the-upcoming-ds-browser-from-opera/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:42:35 +0000 ericskiff http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/13/siliconera-reviews-the-upcoming-ds-browser-from-opera/ SiliconEra got an interview with an Opera employee and got to check out the upcoming browser for Nintendo’s newest portable gaming device. Check the source for the video!
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    While hanging out at SXSW I caught up with the Opera team who are responsible for developing the Nintendo Wii browser and the upcoming DS browser. I pulled one of the programmers aside to give a little demonstration about how the DS browser works.
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    ]]>     http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/13/siliconera-reviews-the-upcoming-ds-browser-from-opera/feed/     Does twittering reduce blogging? http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/13/does-twittering-reduce-blogging/ http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/13/does-twittering-reduce-blogging/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:39:42 +0000 ericskiff http://sxsw.glitchnyc.com/2007/03/13/does-twittering-reduce-blogging/ Ewan Spence has some though provoking insight on amazing rise of twitter and the effect that will have on blogging here at SXSW and other conferences.
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    Will Twitter ‘Black Hole’ A Conference This Year
    One of things I’ve always joked about is that at some point, there will be a conference where nobody takes any pictures, relying instead on the ‘herd immunity’ concpet that someone else will be Flickring anything interesting.
    Given the mass adoption of Twitter at SXSW Interactive, I’m wondering if it won;t be a pictorial black hole, but a bloggable black hole. Most tech conferences have everyone blogging thoughts, feelings, news and other minuate throughout the day. I’ll wager that compared to other conferences, there’s been a 60%-70% drop in blog posts, but the thoughts haven’t been lost, they’ve all migrated over to Twitter.
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