We just launched our schwag-of-the-month club. I’m going to let others do the talking about it. Just know that we have more tricks up our sleeves on the way. (And the way things are going, you may or may not hear about them here first)
Costello played with the SF Symphony last night. It was an astonishing performance that got better with each song. During his last encore he turned off his mic and sang directly to the audience, the orchestra a delicate tremor behind him. The song was Couldn’t Call it Unexpected No. 4, the final track from Mighty [...]
Caterina Fake wrote a post the other day called “It’s a bad time to start a company.” By this she meant an Internet company. She makes some reasonable observations about the tightening of the job market in the Bay Area, the increased competition, and how “Web 2.0 isn’t all that.” Anybody who lived through dot [...]
Rubyred started Cerealbar as a weekly breakfast gathering for our friends and neighbors. We assembled an impressive cereal selection, fine-brewed coffee and, of course, grapefruits galore (with handcrank juicer!). Just a way to start the week off right, since we couldn’t compete with all the cocktail gatherings on fridays.
Perhaps you’ve heard tales of Cerealbar [...]
Amy has been writing the odd post on her secret blog for a few weeks now, all along warning me that I’d be sleeping alone if I told another soul about its existence. Well our friend Maggie, of MightyGirl fame, posted a link to her blog today, effectively outing her.
So I can now jump up [...]
They’re designed to sway as the truck roars forward.
I hung out on the Freenode IRC channels at both Etech and SxSW. While you can argue that the running chat commentary is a distraction from the main presentations, for the most part it enhanced the experience for me. Here’s why:
It added much needed comic relief from many of the too serious presentations. Come on [...]
It’s spring cleaning time. This year I’ve been able to be more ruthless than ever about which books to give away. The Yellow Pages are first to go.
In previous years I couldn’t quite do it, despite knowing I could do a local business search online. After all, what if the connection dropped out? The idea [...]
The Video Egg team arranged a rock-n-roll party bus trip to The Salt Lick Barbeque, supposedly the ultimate bbq joint in the Austin area. I ran into them between sessions at the Hilton, and they had some last minute cancellations so they did the hard recruitment on me. Despite my desperate need for a shower, [...]
Etech and South by Southwest are a study in contrasts. Etech is old school. It’s a serious affair, with a reverence for the tech industry and its history, a gaggle of software companies convening with the usual 9:1 male/female ratio and mild-mannered “receptions” to match. The annual theme (this year was the Attention Economy) gives [...]