8:38 a.m. -- It's the final day on the road before Austin! Day one's liveblog from Tuesday is here; yesterday's update is here. The Observer did not liveblog yesterday due to confusion with editors and sparse internet access. To summarize: Internet access was very spotty, which interfered with workflow. One of the bus Read More
Filling out your dance card for SXSW? Here's where The Observer is hoping to find other New Yorkers.
Thursday:
Capital Factory, "
Saturday:
Foursquare, "SXSW Foursquare Party"at Cedar Street Courtyard and PéchéNotes: Finally, a real four square party.Crashable?: Yes, yes.
Hashable, "The Hashable Oasis"6 p.m. - 8 p.m. at The Driskill HotelNotes: Power-networking with Hashable users and some Read More
It's so easy to start a web company that one entrepreneuer's tipsy joke--"let's do it on a BUS!"--has become a six-city adventure with top talent from across the country (and at least one guy from London!) scrambling to join.
Last year, the StartupBus drove a pack of entrepreneurs from San Francisco to Austin for South Read More
New York-based startup Hashable has a strange way of keeping secrets.
Earlier today, :
Shhhhh, don't say anything, but Hashable is thinking about sending some of its best users to SXSW (airfare and hotel included) to evangelize
Bam, five retweets and four people replying "pick me!"
Oh, and one blog post.
ajeffries@observer.com | @adrjeffries
Over the weekend members of the notorious internet board 4chan shut down the websites of the MPAA and RIAA. New media was sticking it to the olds. Today it was announced that the founder of the influential internet message board 4chan, Christopher "Moot" Poole, would be a keynote speaker at this year's SXSW interactive.
What's the Read More
"How does one react to the death of one’s mentor?": Paul Westerberg on Alex Chilton.
Gastronomica as a post-Gourmet food magazine.
Oh mem'ries: looking back on an "era" in web-traffic measurement.
"I am fairly certain that I was the first Seven Sisters grad to eat duck liver chased with a Diet Coke Read More
Behold: at South by Southwest, the NEWSSTAND OF THE FUTURE!
It is cool looking, but also makes us think of Dippin' Dots, ICE CREAM OF THE FUTURE (freeze-dried mall food).
"If you're have a slamming Saturday night, there's no reason why it shouldn't feel like a game of Legend of Zelda," said
On April 2, St. Ann's Warehouse in Dumbo will present a concert celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Hal Willner's Stay Awake, the producer's classic 1988 interpretation of the Vintage Disney Songbook, Brooklyn Vegan reports. Mr. Willner revived the project last June at the behest of former Pulp front man Jarvis Cocker, Read More
