Where should you go? What parties are cool? How can I meet those people that are *gasp* Internet FAMOUS! Learn this and more at this welcome panel for SXSW Noobs. This panel will provide useful tips for SXSW virgins and veterans from a diverse panel of SXSW Interactive attendees, speakers, and personalities. Come for the laughs, anecdotes, and useful tools that will equip you to "Rawk Out" during SXSW Interactive. I mean, why should Music and Film attendees have all the fun.
Min Jung Kim is a long time internet fangirl, blogger, writer, and snark producer. Over the year's she's participated on notable blog projects including Survivorblog.com, Blogher.org, and 8asians.com as well as writing for KoreAm Journal, IIStix, and multiple other publications.Her blog can be found at minjungkim.com. When she isn't laying a kiss on the cheek of a SXSWI panelist, she's probably trying to get someone else into mischief. She Rawks Out and she's good people.
Ian Lloyd runs the web accessibility resource Accessify.com and is a full time worker bee at Nationwide Building Society in the UK where he is always banging on about standards and accessibility. Sometimes people listen, which gives him the warm fuzzies. He likes monkeys but couldn't eat a whole one.
Accessify.com is a site dedicated to furthering the cause of web accessibility by offering free tools and other useful resources. they had a cool tools and wizards section and some great links and resouces.
Matt Mullenwegg. He is best known as the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software he guided from a handful of users to the most widely used open source blog tool. In late 2005 he left CNET to found Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Akismet.com. In his spare time he enjoys taking photographs and playing jazz.
32. Los Angeles. Black. Male. Web Producer. Disney Online. TV. Games. Live. Mobile. Corporate. Music. Single. Hetero. Non-Denominational. All-Consuming Media Beast. Dance Machine. Comic Book Fiend. Nintendo Power. Mac Lover. Last.fm Disciple. Geeked for Google. Eco-Friendly. Former Blogebrity.
That's what it says on his banner on his website. I found him on Linkedin and it says he's worked for Disney Creative Services.
And the final panel member is Tiim Ferris who wrote the four hour work week. Not a bad idea. And he figured out how to do it with a minimum effort and maximum of delegation. His website at http://fourhourworkweek.com shows a nice beach scene of course.
Now he's started this open wiki and the password is version2 to make edits.
As a professional polymath, he has amassed a diverse roster of credentials and experience:
* Princeton University guest lecturer in High-Tech Entrepreneurship and Electrical Engineering
* First American in history to hold a Guinness World Record in tango (video)
* Advisor to more than 30 world record holders in professional and Olympic sports
* National Chinese kickboxing champion (video)
* Glycemic Index (GI) researcher Political asylum researcher and activist
* MTV breakdancer in Taiwan
* Hurling competitor in Ireland
* Actor on hit TV series in mainland China and Hong Kong
After I get done with that panel (assuming I get to go to SXSWi) I would head over to the 5 PM Bankruupt your startup in five easy steps.
The odds are your startup will fail. Why fight it. Learn to implode your company with style. This session will review some of the many challenges facing new startups and look at the reasons why the vast majority of big ideas never make it out of the garage. The panelists will address the five things that sink most startups and show you how to do it bigger and better than your competition, which is also going to implode.
On his blog he gives you the top 5 reasons why you should go to SXSW:
I hereby present my top 5 reasons why you (My reasons are different) need to go to SXSW.
1. You will look back when you are old and think back to how cool you once were.
2. There is 95% your company will pay for it.
3. Your liver looked at you cross eyed yesterday and needs to be reminded who owns the place.
4. Jeffery Zeldman may gaze upon you… and you will feel like a complete dork for being excited about that, but later realize you are a better designer than him. (I mean Zeldman no dis respect.. see irony)
5. You will bear witness first hand to the antics of some of PHX’s best and brightest Web talent.. Heck maybe be Air Shaler will shake your hand.
Bonus!
6. Because you (what were you thinking?) graduated college in 4 years and thought Spring Break was “such a waste of time”.
Super Bonus!
7. Integrum Technologies is roadtrippin not 1, but 2 full size RV’s to Austin TX… if you cannot respect that level of dedication and go yourself… then… seriously you guys, seriously..wtf?
The other speaker at this panel is Sean Tierney and here's his bio.
Sean Tierney is COO of JumpBox, Inc and has ten years of experience with web development having served in various technical capacities in both established and startup companies. In 2002 Sean founded Lights Out Production, a software consultancy under which he developed custom collaborative and commerce applications for Arizona companies. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Trinity University, San Antonio, TX. Sean is a certified Innovation Games? facilitator, a graduate of the Eugene Marion-Kauffman Foundation FastTrac Entrepreneurship course series, author for the Techdirt Insight Community and host of the bi-weekly Grid7 Podcast interviews.
I'm going to have to study and research jumpbox. They help you build virtual machines that install servers. And they use VMWare! and Parallels to deliver computers that just work, they say.
One click os installs sound good. I'm going to try this out.
Porter Novelli Friday Night Mix at Six
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Six (117 W 4th St @ Colorado)
Soft launch into the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival experience with the Friday Night Mix at Six. Hosted by Porter Novelli, this official pre-party provides a great opportunity to reconnect with old friends and make new connections. Great views of downtown Austin from the rooftop deck!
Well day 2 is here and there are a lot of panels at 10 am and I pick this one:
Quit Your Day Job and Vlog
Room 12AB
Saturday, March 8th
10:00 am - 11:00 am
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Is it possible yet to make a living in online video? Hear from some of the people who have made videoblogging their main endeavor as to where they think video on the internet is going, how they got where they are, and how you can get into it, too. Our panelists, well-known figures in online video, will share experiences working with big media companies, startups, news organizations, and Hollywood as they've charted their way through the space. Key takeaways will include an overview of opportunities for videobloggers and filmmakers to get regular paying gigs creating content; how to get started, either independently or pitching your talents to a company or organization; and a discussion of the types of online video jobs there are right now, from entertainment to reporting to marketing and communications. We'll also ask the audience about their own thoughts about online video, and whether they think there are enough viable opportunities for everyone that may be interested. Videobloggers, filmmakers, and online video creators are encouraged to attend and share their experiences.
Zadi Diaz Principal, Smashface Productions LLC
Bre Pettis Video Podcaster, Make:
Timothy Shey Founder, Next New Networks
Lisa Donovan Zappin Productions
Lindsay Campbell Producer/Host, Wallstrip CBS Interactive
Hey, one guy is named Shey, so I must be at the right place!
The bio sez Zadi Diaz has been working in the entertainment and media industry for over a decade as a producer, writer, and director. She is co-founder and a principal of Smashface Productions, a new media production company specializing in the development and production of original online programming for both independent and traditional media.
I go to http://smashface.com and find out hey're in to web, tv and film. That's good. I check out the http://epicfu.com and find there's even more reason to see this panel. Zadi is a total hottie and has a great video on this site.
The next panelist is Bre Pettis, who "produces the show "Weekend Projects," which is released weekly as a video podcast for Make: Magazine. For his show, Bre makes something every week, and then makes a video teaching viewers how to make it too. In his recent past, he's been a schoolteacher, a multi-artist, and a puppeteer. Bre is passionate about invention, innovation, and all things DIY."
Make is very cool and they had the Maker Faire in Austin recently. Did anyone here go to that?
Timothy Shey (hey gotta like the name) is a founder of Next New Networks, a media company creating targeted entertainment networks online. He leads the development of the company's brands and programming, and over the past few years has worked with many of the Internet's most talented and successful new content creators.
I cruise over to http://netwnewnetworks.com and find out that they are a new kind of media company, creating micro-television networks over the internet for targeted communities, bringing together elements of tv programming and internet philosophy to allow viewers to contribute, share and distribute content.
Cool! One of their networks is EPIC-FU, hey that's the Zadi Diaz hottie I just saw. All their networks have cool names like Pulp Secret and Bleacher Bloggers and Barely Political.
I cruise over to Barely Political and catch a call between Obama and Hillary and Edwards. Funny. And great production values. And just a bit bawdy.
The final panelist "Lindsay Campbell is the host of Moblogic.tv, a daily news and politics web show for CBS. Before Moblogic.tv, Lindsay anchored the daily stock show, Wallstrip, for over a year and had a blast riding pigs, shooting guns, all while becoming educated about the markets. Wallstrip was acquired by CBS in October of 2006. Before landing full-time on the web, Lindsay was like any New York actress, doing plays and occasional TV guest spots, but planning an eventual move to LA. Now, she's a bonafide Silicon Alley-proselytizer, spreading the good word of made-for-internet entertainment all over the world."
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
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An advanced course on enjoying SXSW - attending the best panels, meeting interesting people and achieving geekgasm - without making a mess. SXSW is huge. With lots of panels, tons of people and even more free drinks, sorting through all these options can be a daunting task. While you don't want to plan every minute of your time here, a little bit of planning can go a long way. We'll share our previous experiences of meeting people, painting the town red, and still making it to a panel or two. Plus, we'll dish out our best tips, from where to hang out to who to hook up with - or, more importantly, who NOT to hook up with!
Glenda Bautista is a writer, media maker, and publisher at heart. A product manager, information architect, and technologist by profession, she specializes in online media, taxonomies, and the cryptic, dark art of monetization. She has been blogging on Agendacide.com since 1998 as part of a "self-inflicted penance."
She says on her blog that "do the best booty-slap dance in the San Francisco Bay Area — where I currently live. Ask me to do it for you sometime." So if you see her there be sure to ask her to do it. I will.
Ryan King is an independent web technologist, specializing in microformats, markup and search. As a co-founder of microformats.org, he is dedicated to advancing the start of the art in open data on the web.
I looked at the microformats.org and these are some very important web standards to pay attention to and incorporate in to web projects, like hcard, etc. The "h" stands for human.
Casey McKinnon is the star and co-creator of web series Galacticast, A Comicbook Orange and Kitkast. Her work has been documented in Rolling Stone Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, and BBC News, among others. Her work on Galacticast has also garnered five Vloggie awards and three Parsec nominations. She currently lives in Montreal, but dreams of California. Watch for her upcoming projects at www.caseymckinnon.com.
Galacticast is a great web sitcom! I've got it as a subscription on my ipod. She makes fun of Battlestar Galactica and other sci fi shows and it's funny stuff.
Ariel Waldman is a social media insights consultant and the publisher of http://shakewellbeforeuse.com which covers art, advertising, sex and technology daily. Waldman has served as a columnist for Engadget, SuicideGirls, and Adrants. Prior to moving to San Francisco, she was a Digital Insights Analyst at VML for 8 years.
I checked out her website and she's hot on nearly every single social networking site, twitter, facebook, pownce... and many more. Very socially connected.
Veronica Belmont is the host and producer of the web show Mahalo Daily for Mahalo.com. In the past, she worked for CNET.com, where she produced and co-hosted the flagship CNET podcast Buzz Out Loud, as well as MP3 Insider and the Crave video podcast. Veronica also created and hosted video content for CNET TV, most notably the Prizefight series. Veronica spends her days now shooting, writing and editing for the show, as well as maintaining her blog at veronicabelmont.com. She frequently guest hosts other technology related podcasts, and also speaks about technology, gaming, and social networking.
Opening Remarks with Henry Jenkins and Steven Johnson
Room A
Saturday, March 8th
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Henry Jenkins was one of the most popular speakers at last year's SXSW Interactive Festival, so we are very excited to have him return to the event in 2008. His foil in this conversation is best-selling author Steven Johnson, who served as the Keynote Speaker at the 1998 event.
This presentation will be simulcast in both Ballroom B and the Day Stage Cafe.
Jenkins currently serves as Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities and Co-Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies program with William Uricchio. Professor of literature and author of Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture and What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic, he was one of the first scholars to seriously study the effects of audience participation in media culture. He is recognized as an expert in the influence of digital popular culture on behavior, especially political behavior in a participatory media age.
More recently, Jenkins' research has been focused on the concept of "Media Convergence", arguing that the simple technological-focused view that was once hyped was short-sighted and that an understanding of how individuals in contemporary culture themselves tap into and combine numerous different media sources offers a far richer understanding of the relationship between different media forms.
This research led to his 2006 book 'Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide' and the founding of the Convergence Culture Consortium research group at the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT. He has also written extensively about the effects of interactivity, particularly computer games, and "games for learning", and in this capacity was called to testify before Congress in 1999.
This work ultimately led to the founding of the Education Arcade group, also at the MIT Comparative Media Studies program. He was featured in Electronic Gaming Monthly, where he was asked about the effects of violence in video games. He offered a very different perspective from Jack Thompson.
Jenkins earned his MA in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa and his PhD in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He did his undergraduate work at Georgia State University, where he majored in Political Science and Journalism. He and his wife Cynthia Jenkins are housemasters of the Senior House dorm at MIT. They have one son, Henry Jenkins IV.
Steven Berlin Johnson (born June 6, 1968) is an American popular science author. He has worked as a columnist for Discover Magazine, Slate, Wired and others. He is a Distinguished Writer In Residence at New York University and he co-founded the early webzine Feed Magazine in 1995.
He has published five books: 'Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms The Way We Create And Communicate' (1997), 'Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software' (2001), 'Mind Wide Open: Your Brain And The Neuroscience Of Everyday Life' (2004) 'Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter' (2005), 'The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World' (2006).
He recently announced a new online service, outside.in, which he describes as "an attempt to collectively build the geographic Web, neighborhood by neighborhood".
The Art of Speed: Conversations With Monster Makers
Room 18ABCD
Saturday, March 8th
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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This session will focus on how to accomplish huge things in little time. From near-overnight IPOs and massive cult followings, to instant NY Times bestsellers and runaway viral campaigns, learn tricks from those who have created monsters of buzz, fame, and fortune.
I already talked about the 4 hour work week guy. The next panelist is:
Mike Cassidy has been the Co-Founder and CEO of three start-ups: Xfire (acquired by MTV for $110M), Direct Hit (acquired by Ask.com for $500M), and Stylus Innovation (acquired by Artisoft for $13M). Mike has a BS and MS in Aerospace Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Wow, what a track record for building companies that got acquired!
Evan Williams was born in 1972 and is the founder of Obvious Corp, a San Francisco-based web product development company and co-founder of Twitter, a micro-blogging and social networking site.
Williams and Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs, where he worked most of 2003-04, to make project management software, but parts of the application were used to create Blogger, one of the first web applications for creating and managing blogs. The company survived despite the departure of Hourihan and other employees, and was eventually acquired by Google.
Williams left Google in 2004 to co-found Odeo, a podcasting company. In late 2006, Williams co-founded Obvious Corp with Biz Stone and other former Odeo employees. Obvious has acquired all previous properties of Odeo, Inc., including Odeo and Twitter, and Twitter has now grown large enough require being its own company.
Twitter! I read here somewhere that it was the rage of last year's sxsw... wonder if that will carry over to this year?
Cali Lewis is the host of GeekBrief.TV, a three to five minute video podcast, covering new technologies, consumer electronics, and Web 2.0 projects. Along with her husband, Neal Campbell, they started GeekBrief.TV on December 23rd, 2005. Five months later, they began producing the show full time with support from PodShow Network and advertisers. Cali has co-hosted Call For Help with Leo Laporte, and appears regularly on MSNBC and The Lab with Leo Laporte.
Cali Lewis is awesome. She talks faster than almost any human being, is really, really funny and full of vigor.
Worst Website Ever: That's So Crazy, It Just Might Work
Room 9
Saturday, March 8th
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Smart people dare to be stupid in a contest between nine writers, designers and engineers - each pitching their worst possible startup ideas in lightning rounds. Winner gets funded by delusional VCs.
Moderator: Andy Baio Programmer/Journalist, Waxy.org
Baio is a programmer/journalist living and working in Portland, Oregon. He's the creator and co-founder of Upcoming.org, the social events calendar acquired by Yahoo!, which he recently left to develop new projects independently. Original reporting on his personal weblog Waxy.org has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, Wired, Boston Globe and MSNBC, among others. He's received legal threats from EMI, Disney, and Bill Cosby - and framed each one.
He has a bunch of projects, I don't know how he juggles them all. upcoming.org is brilliant and indispensible for calendaring.
Lane Becker is co-founder and president of Satisfaction Unlimited, a web startup that provides "people-powered customer service for absolutely everything." Previously, Lane was co-founder of Adaptive Path, a user experience strategy, research, and design consultancy, known for, among other things, coining the technology terms "blog" and "ajax."
That's pretty awesome that he made up the words blog and ajax.
Jeffery is a freelance web developer living in San Francisco, California. He's worked @ Yahoo! and EVB. If you wanna get stalkery, you can check him out at http://meandmybadself.com
Ben Brown. I was the founder of Consumating.com, a social network and community for geeks, nerds and hipsters. I have been building online tools and communities for more than 10 years, and currently work with companies like Walt Disney Imagineering, 23andMe.com and SMITH Magazine to bring the power of online community to the people.
Michael Buffet has enjoyed over a decade of interesting projects driven by his perpetual curiosity. He's currently the co-founder of Grockit, Inc and together with group of the most talented people he knows is building a multiplayer web based game that encourages people to learn about the world by teaching others what they know. Projects he's enjoyed being a part of previously include Price.com, MeasureMap, llor.nu and Stikkit.
is the bio for Lia Bulaong: Writer, Designer, New Media Consultant, and the "Best Person in NYC to Eat Soup Dumplings With Current" and an editor at Gizmodo.
Heather Champ in another speaker and she's "head of community relations" at flickr.... she's noted for the "mirror project" where she collected pictures only taken through mirrors.
The next panelist almost needs no intro, he's Merlin Mann, the creator and primary contributor for 43folders.com, a family of websites about personal productivity, 'life hacks,' and simple ways to make your life a little better. Something that was discussed in the GTD topic on door64. His bio link.. I love his podcast also.
The final panelist is Katie Spence who lives in San Francisco and works at Mule Design Studio. When she's not at work, she writes about movies at http://iwanttoseethat.com, a site she founded with Ben Brown.
Submitted by springnet on Sat, 03/08/2008 - 4:23am.
Day 1 at sxsw (thanks to door64)
I got videos of Heather Armstrong (dooce), iJustine ( http://ijustine.tv ), Zadi Diaz, and Matt Mullenwegg. A good day and a lucky one to catch all these luminaries on tape.
This looks like a good panel for openers.
How to Rawk SXSW: The Basics
Room 18ABCD
Friday, March 7th
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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Where should you go? What parties are cool? How can I meet those people that are *gasp* Internet FAMOUS! Learn this and more at this welcome panel for SXSW Noobs. This panel will provide useful tips for SXSW virgins and veterans from a diverse panel of SXSW Interactive attendees, speakers, and personalities. Come for the laughs, anecdotes, and useful tools that will equip you to "Rawk Out" during SXSW Interactive. I mean, why should Music and Film attendees have all the fun.
Min Jung Kim minjungkim.com
Ian Lloyd accessify.com
Matt Mullenweg Founding Dev, Automattic/WordPress
Jason Toney negroplease.com
Rannie Turingan photojunkie.ca
Tim Ferriss www.fourhourworkweek.com
Min Jung Kim is a long time internet fangirl, blogger, writer, and snark producer. Over the year's she's participated on notable blog projects including Survivorblog.com, Blogher.org, and 8asians.com as well as writing for KoreAm Journal, IIStix, and multiple other publications.Her blog can be found at minjungkim.com. When she isn't laying a kiss on the cheek of a SXSWI panelist, she's probably trying to get someone else into mischief. She Rawks Out and she's good people.
Ian Lloyd runs the web accessibility resource Accessify.com and is a full time worker bee at Nationwide Building Society in the UK where he is always banging on about standards and accessibility. Sometimes people listen, which gives him the warm fuzzies. He likes monkeys but couldn't eat a whole one.
Accessify.com is a site dedicated to furthering the cause of web accessibility by offering free tools and other useful resources. they had a cool tools and wizards section and some great links and resouces.
Matt Mullenwegg. He is best known as the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software he guided from a handful of users to the most widely used open source blog tool. In late 2005 he left CNET to found Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Akismet.com. In his spare time he enjoys taking photographs and playing jazz.
Jason Tooney.
32. Los Angeles. Black. Male. Web Producer. Disney Online. TV. Games. Live. Mobile. Corporate. Music. Single. Hetero. Non-Denominational. All-Consuming Media Beast. Dance Machine. Comic Book Fiend. Nintendo Power. Mac Lover. Last.fm Disciple. Geeked for Google. Eco-Friendly. Former Blogebrity.
That's what it says on his banner on his website. I found him on Linkedin and it says he's worked for Disney Creative Services.
Rannie Turingan is a "queer, 30something, Filipion, Canadian, photographer living in Toronto" . . . he has a picture of Min Jung Kiim on his website.
And the final panel member is Tiim Ferris who wrote the four hour work week. Not a bad idea. And he figured out how to do it with a minimum effort and maximum of delegation. His website at http://fourhourworkweek.com shows a nice beach scene of course.
Now he's started this open wiki and the password is version2 to make edits.
4HWW ... I'm up for that.
I bet he doesn't read email much though.
His acheivements on a 4 hour week are stunning.
As a professional polymath, he has amassed a diverse roster of credentials and experience:
* Princeton University guest lecturer in High-Tech Entrepreneurship and Electrical Engineering
* First American in history to hold a Guinness World Record in tango (video)
* Advisor to more than 30 world record holders in professional and Olympic sports
* National Chinese kickboxing champion (video)
* Glycemic Index (GI) researcher Political asylum researcher and activist
* MTV breakdancer in Taiwan
* Hurling competitor in Ireland
* Actor on hit TV series in mainland China and Hong Kong
So that would be a good first panel with that topic and those speakers. It's Friday, March 7th at 3:30 pm. Opening Day.
After I get done with that panel (assuming I get to go to SXSWi) I would head over to the 5 PM Bankruupt your startup in five easy steps.
The odds are your startup will fail. Why fight it. Learn to implode your company with style. This session will review some of the many challenges facing new startups and look at the reasons why the vast majority of big ideas never make it out of the garage. The panelists will address the five things that sink most startups and show you how to do it bigger and better than your competition, which is also going to implode.
Or so it says in the program.
Joshua Strebel's blog is http://saint-rebel.com
On his blog he gives you the top 5 reasons why you should go to SXSW:
I hereby present my top 5 reasons why you (My reasons are different) need to go to SXSW.
1. You will look back when you are old and think back to how cool you once were.
2. There is 95% your company will pay for it.
3. Your liver looked at you cross eyed yesterday and needs to be reminded who owns the place.
4. Jeffery Zeldman may gaze upon you… and you will feel like a complete dork for being excited about that, but later realize you are a better designer than him. (I mean Zeldman no dis respect.. see irony)
5. You will bear witness first hand to the antics of some of PHX’s best and brightest Web talent.. Heck maybe be Air Shaler will shake your hand.
Bonus!
6. Because you (what were you thinking?) graduated college in 4 years and thought Spring Break was “such a waste of time”.
Oh and I missed his biggest reason to go to sxsw:
Super Bonus!
7. Integrum Technologies is roadtrippin not 1, but 2 full size RV’s to Austin TX… if you cannot respect that level of dedication and go yourself… then… seriously you guys, seriously..wtf?
He has more... and he is also on the virtualization panel with the guys at http://jumpbox.com
The other speaker at this panel is Sean Tierney and here's his bio.
Sean Tierney is COO of JumpBox, Inc and has ten years of experience with web development having served in various technical capacities in both established and startup companies. In 2002 Sean founded Lights Out Production, a software consultancy under which he developed custom collaborative and commerce applications for Arizona companies. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Trinity University, San Antonio, TX. Sean is a certified Innovation Games? facilitator, a graduate of the Eugene Marion-Kauffman Foundation FastTrac Entrepreneurship course series, author for the Techdirt Insight Community and host of the bi-weekly Grid7 Podcast interviews.
I'm going to have to study and research jumpbox. They help you build virtual machines that install servers. And they use VMWare! and Parallels to deliver computers that just work, they say.
One click os installs sound good. I'm going to try this out.
Now that's my first imaginary day one at sxswi, now to go in search of a night time activity.
Wow, I think I found it.
Friday, March 7
Porter Novelli Friday Night Mix at Six
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Six (117 W 4th St @ Colorado)
Soft launch into the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival experience with the Friday Night Mix at Six. Hosted by Porter Novelli, this official pre-party provides a great opportunity to reconnect with old friends and make new connections. Great views of downtown Austin from the rooftop deck!
So I crawl home after half a first day looking forward to more action on Day 2, Saturday, March 8 at SXSWi.
Well day 2 is here and there are a lot of panels at 10 am and I pick this one:
Quit Your Day Job and Vlog
Room 12AB
Saturday, March 8th
10:00 am - 11:00 am
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Is it possible yet to make a living in online video? Hear from some of the people who have made videoblogging their main endeavor as to where they think video on the internet is going, how they got where they are, and how you can get into it, too. Our panelists, well-known figures in online video, will share experiences working with big media companies, startups, news organizations, and Hollywood as they've charted their way through the space. Key takeaways will include an overview of opportunities for videobloggers and filmmakers to get regular paying gigs creating content; how to get started, either independently or pitching your talents to a company or organization; and a discussion of the types of online video jobs there are right now, from entertainment to reporting to marketing and communications. We'll also ask the audience about their own thoughts about online video, and whether they think there are enough viable opportunities for everyone that may be interested. Videobloggers, filmmakers, and online video creators are encouraged to attend and share their experiences.
Zadi Diaz Principal, Smashface Productions LLC
Bre Pettis Video Podcaster, Make:
Timothy Shey Founder, Next New Networks
Lisa Donovan Zappin Productions
Lindsay Campbell Producer/Host, Wallstrip CBS Interactive
Hey, one guy is named Shey, so I must be at the right place!
These are the panels I passed up to go to the vlogging panel:
10:00 am · A Better Gun to Shoot Your Eye Out With
10:00 am · AJAX and Flash Mistakes: Lessons Learned Building SlideShare
10:00 am · Book Reading: Web Design for ROI
10:00 am · Catching up with Accessibility: The Basics Quickly
10:00 am · Creating Findable Rich Media Content
10:00 am · Design is in the Details
10:00 am · Filching Design: When the Shoe Fits
10:00 am · Kill Your Mouse: Kinetic Computing Arrives Main Stage
10:00 am · Quit Your Day Job and Vlog
10:00 am · Rome, Sweet Rome: Ancient Lessons in Design
10:00 am · What Teens Want Online & On Their Phones
10:00 am · Sponsored Panel: Knowing the Audience: Improving Communication Between Artists and Fans
All at 10 am on Saturday March 8.
OK. A lot of choices. So I've quit my day job and I'm at the Vlog panel and I'm going to find out if I can make a living online.
Let's check out the panelists now.
The bio sez Zadi Diaz has been working in the entertainment and media industry for over a decade as a producer, writer, and director. She is co-founder and a principal of Smashface Productions, a new media production company specializing in the development and production of original online programming for both independent and traditional media.
I go to http://smashface.com and find out hey're in to web, tv and film. That's good. I check out the http://epicfu.com and find there's even more reason to see this panel. Zadi is a total hottie and has a great video on this site.
I wonder why I haven't found her on itunes?
The next panelist is Bre Pettis, who "produces the show "Weekend Projects," which is released weekly as a video podcast for Make: Magazine. For his show, Bre makes something every week, and then makes a video teaching viewers how to make it too. In his recent past, he's been a schoolteacher, a multi-artist, and a puppeteer. Bre is passionate about invention, innovation, and all things DIY."
Make is very cool and they had the Maker Faire in Austin recently. Did anyone here go to that?
Timothy Shey (hey gotta like the name) is a founder of Next New Networks, a media company creating targeted entertainment networks online. He leads the development of the company's brands and programming, and over the past few years has worked with many of the Internet's most talented and successful new content creators.
I cruise over to http://netwnewnetworks.com and find out that they are a new kind of media company, creating micro-television networks over the internet for targeted communities, bringing together elements of tv programming and internet philosophy to allow viewers to contribute, share and distribute content.
Cool! One of their networks is EPIC-FU, hey that's the Zadi Diaz hottie I just saw. All their networks have cool names like Pulp Secret and Bleacher Bloggers and Barely Political.
I cruise over to Barely Political and catch a call between Obama and Hillary and Edwards. Funny. And great production values. And just a bit bawdy.
http://www.barelypolitical.com/bp-music-videos/episode/noyoucant
Try this url on for size from Barely Political.
These guys *can* quit their day jobs!
The final panelist "Lindsay Campbell is the host of Moblogic.tv, a daily news and politics web show for CBS. Before Moblogic.tv, Lindsay anchored the daily stock show, Wallstrip, for over a year and had a blast riding pigs, shooting guns, all while becoming educated about the markets. Wallstrip was acquired by CBS in October of 2006. Before landing full-time on the web, Lindsay was like any New York actress, doing plays and occasional TV guest spots, but planning an eventual move to LA. Now, she's a bonafide Silicon Alley-proselytizer, spreading the good word of made-for-internet entertainment all over the world."
Wallstrip totally rocks. Have you seen it!
Lindsay is awesome.
That settles it.
OK now it's time for the next sesson.
How to Rawk SXSW: Achieving Geekgasm
Room 19AB
Saturday, March 8th
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
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An advanced course on enjoying SXSW - attending the best panels, meeting interesting people and achieving geekgasm - without making a mess. SXSW is huge. With lots of panels, tons of people and even more free drinks, sorting through all these options can be a daunting task. While you don't want to plan every minute of your time here, a little bit of planning can go a long way. We'll share our previous experiences of meeting people, painting the town red, and still making it to a panel or two. Plus, we'll dish out our best tips, from where to hang out to who to hook up with - or, more importantly, who NOT to hook up with!
Moderator: Veronica Belmont Host/Producer, Mahalo Inc
Glenda Bautista Agendacide
Ryan King the ryan king
Casey McKinnon 8bit Brownies Inc
Ariel Waldman Social Media Insights Consultant
Veronica Belmont Host/Producer, Mahalo Inc
Glenda Bautista is a writer, media maker, and publisher at heart. A product manager, information architect, and technologist by profession, she specializes in online media, taxonomies, and the cryptic, dark art of monetization. She has been blogging on Agendacide.com since 1998 as part of a "self-inflicted penance."
She says on her blog that "do the best booty-slap dance in the San Francisco Bay Area — where I currently live. Ask me to do it for you sometime." So if you see her there be sure to ask her to do it. I will.
Ryan King is an independent web technologist, specializing in microformats, markup and search. As a co-founder of microformats.org, he is dedicated to advancing the start of the art in open data on the web.
I looked at the microformats.org and these are some very important web standards to pay attention to and incorporate in to web projects, like hcard, etc. The "h" stands for human.
Casey McKinnon is the star and co-creator of web series Galacticast, A Comicbook Orange and Kitkast. Her work has been documented in Rolling Stone Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, and BBC News, among others. Her work on Galacticast has also garnered five Vloggie awards and three Parsec nominations. She currently lives in Montreal, but dreams of California. Watch for her upcoming projects at www.caseymckinnon.com.
Galacticast is a great web sitcom! I've got it as a subscription on my ipod. She makes fun of Battlestar Galactica and other sci fi shows and it's funny stuff.
Ariel Waldman is a social media insights consultant and the publisher of http://shakewellbeforeuse.com which covers art, advertising, sex and technology daily. Waldman has served as a columnist for Engadget, SuicideGirls, and Adrants. Prior to moving to San Francisco, she was a Digital Insights Analyst at VML for 8 years.
I checked out her website and she's hot on nearly every single social networking site, twitter, facebook, pownce... and many more. Very socially connected.
Veronica Belmont is the host and producer of the web show Mahalo Daily for Mahalo.com. In the past, she worked for CNET.com, where she produced and co-hosted the flagship CNET podcast Buzz Out Loud, as well as MP3 Insider and the Crave video podcast. Veronica also created and hosted video content for CNET TV, most notably the Prizefight series. Veronica spends her days now shooting, writing and editing for the show, as well as maintaining her blog at veronicabelmont.com. She frequently guest hosts other technology related podcasts, and also speaks about technology, gaming, and social networking.
mahalo daily is a great show!
On to the afternoon and to the
Opening Remarks with Henry Jenkins and Steven Johnson
Room A
Saturday, March 8th
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Henry Jenkins was one of the most popular speakers at last year's SXSW Interactive Festival, so we are very excited to have him return to the event in 2008. His foil in this conversation is best-selling author Steven Johnson, who served as the Keynote Speaker at the 1998 event.
This presentation will be simulcast in both Ballroom B and the Day Stage Cafe.
Henry Jenkins Co-Dir of CMS, MIT
Steven Johnson CEO, outside.in
Jenkins currently serves as Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities and Co-Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies program with William Uricchio. Professor of literature and author of Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture and What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic, he was one of the first scholars to seriously study the effects of audience participation in media culture. He is recognized as an expert in the influence of digital popular culture on behavior, especially political behavior in a participatory media age.
More recently, Jenkins' research has been focused on the concept of "Media Convergence", arguing that the simple technological-focused view that was once hyped was short-sighted and that an understanding of how individuals in contemporary culture themselves tap into and combine numerous different media sources offers a far richer understanding of the relationship between different media forms.
This research led to his 2006 book 'Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide' and the founding of the Convergence Culture Consortium research group at the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT. He has also written extensively about the effects of interactivity, particularly computer games, and "games for learning", and in this capacity was called to testify before Congress in 1999.
This work ultimately led to the founding of the Education Arcade group, also at the MIT Comparative Media Studies program. He was featured in Electronic Gaming Monthly, where he was asked about the effects of violence in video games. He offered a very different perspective from Jack Thompson.
Jenkins earned his MA in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa and his PhD in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He did his undergraduate work at Georgia State University, where he majored in Political Science and Journalism. He and his wife Cynthia Jenkins are housemasters of the Senior House dorm at MIT. They have one son, Henry Jenkins IV.
Steven Berlin Johnson (born June 6, 1968) is an American popular science author. He has worked as a columnist for Discover Magazine, Slate, Wired and others. He is a Distinguished Writer In Residence at New York University and he co-founded the early webzine Feed Magazine in 1995.
He has published five books: 'Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms The Way We Create And Communicate' (1997), 'Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software' (2001), 'Mind Wide Open: Your Brain And The Neuroscience Of Everyday Life' (2004) 'Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter' (2005), 'The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World' (2006).
He recently announced a new online service, outside.in, which he describes as "an attempt to collectively build the geographic Web, neighborhood by neighborhood".
Next up.
The Art of Speed: Conversations With Monster Makers
Room 18ABCD
Saturday, March 8th
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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This session will focus on how to accomplish huge things in little time. From near-overnight IPOs and massive cult followings, to instant NY Times bestsellers and runaway viral campaigns, learn tricks from those who have created monsters of buzz, fame, and fortune.
Moderator: Tim Ferriss , www.fourhourworkweek.com
Tim Ferriss www.fourhourworkweek.com
Mike Cassidy Benchmark Capital
Evan Williams Co-Founder, Twitter/Obvious
Cali Lewis Host & Producer, GeekBrief.TV
I already talked about the 4 hour work week guy. The next panelist is:
Mike Cassidy has been the Co-Founder and CEO of three start-ups: Xfire (acquired by MTV for $110M), Direct Hit (acquired by Ask.com for $500M), and Stylus Innovation (acquired by Artisoft for $13M). Mike has a BS and MS in Aerospace Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Wow, what a track record for building companies that got acquired!
Evan Williams was born in 1972 and is the founder of Obvious Corp, a San Francisco-based web product development company and co-founder of Twitter, a micro-blogging and social networking site.
Williams and Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs, where he worked most of 2003-04, to make project management software, but parts of the application were used to create Blogger, one of the first web applications for creating and managing blogs. The company survived despite the departure of Hourihan and other employees, and was eventually acquired by Google.
Williams left Google in 2004 to co-found Odeo, a podcasting company. In late 2006, Williams co-founded Obvious Corp with Biz Stone and other former Odeo employees. Obvious has acquired all previous properties of Odeo, Inc., including Odeo and Twitter, and Twitter has now grown large enough require being its own company.
Twitter! I read here somewhere that it was the rage of last year's sxsw... wonder if that will carry over to this year?
Cali Lewis is the host of GeekBrief.TV, a three to five minute video podcast, covering new technologies, consumer electronics, and Web 2.0 projects. Along with her husband, Neal Campbell, they started GeekBrief.TV on December 23rd, 2005. Five months later, they began producing the show full time with support from PodShow Network and advertisers. Cali has co-hosted Call For Help with Leo Laporte, and appears regularly on MSNBC and The Lab with Leo Laporte.
Cali Lewis is awesome. She talks faster than almost any human being, is really, really funny and full of vigor.
The evening panel is huge.
Worst Website Ever: That's So Crazy, It Just Might Work
Room 9
Saturday, March 8th
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Smart people dare to be stupid in a contest between nine writers, designers and engineers - each pitching their worst possible startup ideas in lightning rounds. Winner gets funded by delusional VCs.
Moderator: Andy Baio Programmer/Journalist, Waxy.org
Andy Baio Programmer/Journalist, Waxy.org
Lane Becker Pres, Get Satisfaction
Jeffery Bennett Clever Name
Ben Brown Internet Rockstar, XOXCO
Michael Buffington Cofounder, Grockit Inc
Lia Bulaong Jarvis Heavy Industries
Heather Champ Dir of Community, Flickr
David Friedman Ironic Sans
David Hornik General Partner, August Capital
Merlin Mann 43 Folders
Katie Spence Crowd Control, Mule Design Studio
Baio is a programmer/journalist living and working in Portland, Oregon. He's the creator and co-founder of Upcoming.org, the social events calendar acquired by Yahoo!, which he recently left to develop new projects independently. Original reporting on his personal weblog Waxy.org has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, Wired, Boston Globe and MSNBC, among others. He's received legal threats from EMI, Disney, and Bill Cosby - and framed each one.
He has a bunch of projects, I don't know how he juggles them all. upcoming.org is brilliant and indispensible for calendaring.
Lane Becker is co-founder and president of Satisfaction Unlimited, a web startup that provides "people-powered customer service for absolutely everything." Previously, Lane was co-founder of Adaptive Path, a user experience strategy, research, and design consultancy, known for, among other things, coining the technology terms "blog" and "ajax."
That's pretty awesome that he made up the words blog and ajax.
Jeffery is a freelance web developer living in San Francisco, California. He's worked @ Yahoo! and EVB. If you wanna get stalkery, you can check him out at http://meandmybadself.com
the mooshface app, hmmm, don't quite get it.
Ben Brown. I was the founder of Consumating.com, a social network and community for geeks, nerds and hipsters. I have been building online tools and communities for more than 10 years, and currently work with companies like Walt Disney Imagineering, 23andMe.com and SMITH Magazine to bring the power of online community to the people.
Michael Buffet has enjoyed over a decade of interesting projects driven by his perpetual curiosity. He's currently the co-founder of Grockit, Inc and together with group of the most talented people he knows is building a multiplayer web based game that encourages people to learn about the world by teaching others what they know. Projects he's enjoyed being a part of previously include Price.com, MeasureMap, llor.nu and Stikkit.
http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=bio...
is the bio for Lia Bulaong: Writer, Designer, New Media Consultant, and the "Best Person in NYC to Eat Soup Dumplings With Current" and an editor at Gizmodo.
Her website is http://lia.bulaong.com/
Heather Champ in another speaker and she's "head of community relations" at flickr.... she's noted for the "mirror project" where she collected pictures only taken through mirrors.
Here's her bio link:
http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=bio...
The next speaker, David Friedman's blog is at http://ironicsans.com
My favorite part of his blog, which is graphically very different, was his copyright notice (his page footer):
This site is © 2008 and except for fair use it may not be reproduced without my permission. Luckily, permission is usually easy to obtain. Contact me and we'll talk. This blog is typeset in Georgia, Times New Roman, or Times, in that order of priority based on what fonts are installed on your computer, or whatever standard serif font is installed if none of the above. The exceptions are the main title, which is based roughly on Baskerville Old Face, and the handwritten parts which are, well, my handwriting.
Cool blog!
The next speaker on the panel is David Hornik who is a General Partner with August Capital. Here's the link to his bio
The next panelist almost needs no intro, he's Merlin Mann, the creator and primary contributor for 43folders.com, a family of websites about personal productivity, 'life hacks,' and simple ways to make your life a little better. Something that was discussed in the GTD topic on door64. His bio link.. I love his podcast also.
The final panelist is Katie Spence who lives in San Francisco and works at Mule Design Studio. When she's not at work, she writes about movies at http://iwanttoseethat.com, a site she founded with Ben Brown.
Day 1 at sxsw (thanks to door64)
I got videos of Heather Armstrong (dooce), iJustine ( http://ijustine.tv ), Zadi Diaz, and Matt Mullenwegg. A good day and a lucky one to catch all these luminaries on tape.
You can see the result at http://austincast.com/blog/