{"id":834,"date":"2009-03-18T12:09:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T17:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=834"},"modified":"2009-03-18T12:09:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T17:09:04","slug":"the-sxsw-aftermath-conflagration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"The SXSW Aftermath Conflagration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My daily updates from SXSW were largely relegated to Twitter this year, so if you want the blow-by-blow, you can always look at my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/critic\">updates<\/a> going back to last Thursday.  I&#8217;ll be posting a full recap later on (no, really, I will!), but in brief, here&#8217;s What I Learned at SXSWi 2009:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intimate dinners trump massive parties with thousands of strangers, without question<\/li>\n<li>Kathy Sierra is a freakin&#8217; genius (actually, I already knew that, but I thought I&#8217;d mention it anyway)<\/li>\n<li>Twitter is still the social networking king, at least amongst the SXSW hive mind, although some new applications like <a href=\"http:\/\/playfoursquare.com\">FourSquare<\/a> crashed the party with some serious potential<\/li>\n<li>The conference is HUGE now.  As in &#8216;over 9,000 registrants&#8217; huge.  It&#8217;s more than a bit overwhelming.  (I&#8217;ll expand on this point in a later post)<\/li>\n<li>I really need to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Designing-Obvious-Common-Approach-Application\/dp\/032145345X\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1237395532&#038;sr=8-1\"><em>Designing the Obvious<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>I need more exciting shit to happen to me in the next 11 months so I have a good story to tell next year at Fray Cafe<\/li>\n<li>Put simply, I have amazing, astounding, wonderful friends who I don&#8217;t see anywhere near often enough<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, waiting on the flight home that ends this marathon of travel.  The flight has been thrice-delayed, as though someone or something doesn&#8217;t want me to sleep in my own bed anytime soon.  With luck, I&#8217;ll be home tonight, and it&#8217;ll be back to reality tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>*sigh*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daily updates from SXSW were largely relegated to Twitter this year, so if you want the blow-by-blow, you can always look at my updates going back to last Thursday. I&#8217;ll be posting a full recap later on (no, really, I will!), but in brief, here&#8217;s What I Learned at SXSWi 2009: Intimate dinners trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[63,64],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sxsw","tag-sxsw","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hxip-ds","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}