{"id":681,"date":"2005-03-13T10:53:15","date_gmt":"2005-03-13T17:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=680"},"modified":"2005-03-13T10:53:15","modified_gmt":"2005-03-13T17:53:15","slug":"reporting-live-from-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"Reporting live from Austin&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning, everyone.  As I type this, I&#8217;m listening to Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent, talk about how the internet is &#8216;broken&#8217;.  That&#8217;s right, I&#8217;m reporting live from <a href=\"http:\/\/2005.sxsw.com\/interactive\">SXSW<\/a>, where the motto may very well be &#8220;Geek Hard, Drink Harder&#8221;.  Let me tell you, there&#8217;s something bizzare about listening to people discuss RSS feeds and CSS code while in the midst of heavy drinking.  And yet, here I am.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to stay on this post for too long, because while no one could really tell if I&#8217;m blogging or if I&#8217;m taking notes, I feel kinda bad about only half-listening to what&#8217;s going on.  But here&#8217;s a quick Southby in-progress version of <b>What I&#8217;ve Learned<\/b>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s a really good idea to get some sleep before Southby.  Because once you&#8217;re here, there&#8217;s no stopping.  It&#8217;s panel, to panel, to keynote, to panel, to panel, to party, to afterparty&#8230;and so forth.  Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that.<\/li>\n<li>When people say you&#8217;re going to meet a lot of people here, they&#8217;re not kidding, Friday night was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradlands.com\/breakBread\/archives\/2005\/02\/break_bread_wit.shtml\">Break Bread with Brad<\/a>, hosted by blogging rockstar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradlands.com\/weblog\/index.shtml\">Brad Graham<\/a>, followed the next morning by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dashes.com\/kick\/:\">Kick!<\/a>, the world&#8217;s biggest and strangest kickball game.  And between those two events, I think I&#8217;ve met eleventy billion people.  I&#8217;m having some trouble with names, but I&#8217;m getting it.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve said it before, but Austin is a fantastic city.  Too many great restaurants and bars to even begin to describe.  Princeton needs to be more like Austin &#8211; except without the crazy drivers.<\/li>\n<li>That said, the Austin &#8220;Real World&#8221; house is literally spitting distance from my hotel.  I&#8217;m really hoping they don&#8217;t find a way to ruin this city.<\/li>\n<li>I make it sound like Southby is an entirely social event, and while the social aspect (networking, getting to know your fellow geek) is a big part of it, the panels I&#8217;ve been to have been very interesting so far.  I&#8217;ll go into more detail at a later point.<\/li>\n<li>I have never seen so many Mac users in one place in my entire life.  PowerBooks and iBooks EVERYWHERE.  And I won&#8217;t even mention how many iPods I&#8217;ve spotted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Someone just asked Cohen if &#8220;he ever downloaded anything&#8221;.  Funny.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, I&#8217;m going to sign off right now, but I&#8217;ll be back with reports from day 2 of the conference and everything that comes after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning, everyone. As I type this, I&#8217;m listening to Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent, talk about how the internet is &#8216;broken&#8217;. That&#8217;s right, I&#8217;m reporting live from SXSW, where the motto may very well be &#8220;Geek Hard, Drink Harder&#8221;. 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