SXSWi snapshots
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March 11, 2012
Our #diypromo panel was well-received. Many thanks to everyone who showed up! Always great to see a packed room. My fellow panelists and our moderator were all terrific, and it was great to finally meet Laura Fitton (@pistachio). Here is our handout.
The book signing was entertaining, and I was grateful for the opportunity to meet Erika “RedheadWriting” Napoletano, and The Onion’s Baratunde Thurston, who were there promoting their new books, too. I bought Napoletano’s The Power of Unpopular, and not only did she sign my copy but Laura Fitton signed her back-cover blurb for me.
I have eaten Cuban sandwiches from this truck parked on Trinity St. several times already. Yum.
The best party of SXSWi? Last night, Knight Foundation partnered with Mozilla and MIT’s Media Lab to showcase exciting media innovation projects during an “Innovation Fair” in Austin’s Brush Square Park. I’d already met Kara Oehler, of Harvard’s metaLAB, years ago, but it was amazing to see her Zeega project in action, and to meet her fellow metaLAB-ers/Zeega-ers media artist Jesse Shapins, and creative technologist James Burns. The absence of metaLAB/HILOBROW’s Matthew Battles was richly lamented. PS: That’s Jesse holding the beer, not me.
There was a lot of this sort of thing going on at the party. My favorite thing about SXSWi is watching folks use their devices and asking them which apps I need to know about.
Secretive shout-out to all the HC-ers I saw yesterday! Represent.