http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009 Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:13:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tuesday, 17 March 2009 at 5:00PM Moderators: Elliott Hurst - Supernova.com Sandy Hurst - Supernova.com Description:  The way we discover music has entirely changed in less than 10 years. Radio's aging demo is presented with safe mainstream offerings. Music discovery is at the forefront of technology and social networks, yet no new standard has ... http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/17/music-20-music-discovery-chaos/ Tuesday, 17 March 2009 at 3:30PM Panel: John Slabyk - Obama for America Scott Thomas - Obama - SimpleScott Alissa Walker - Gelatobaby Description:  The Designing Change in America panel will discuss the Obama "brand", it's birth, it's evolution, and it's rise to power. We will discuss the challenges of being in-house designers in a ... http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/17/designing-change-in-america/ Tuesday, 17 March 2009 at 2:00PM Participants: Chris Anderson - Wired Magazine Guy Kawasaki - Alltop GK: What would you recommend to Twitter for their biz model?  CA:  The idea is to just make money now and not wait for someone to give you money. One model is to have a free and premium ... http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/17/tuesday-keynote-interview/ Tuesday, 17 March 2009 at 11:30AM Panel: Rachel Weidinger (Mktg Dir & Sr Consultant, Common Knowledge) Humberto Kam (Sr Mgr Online Communications, Monterey Bay Aquarium) Andrew MacRae (Get Involved) Melanie Cheng (Founder, FarmsReach.com), (Pres, Common Knowledge) Description:  Nonprofits and social entrepreneurs are making access to sustainable food easier with shortcodes, social networks, advocacy tools, and location-based ... http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/17/delicious-tech-for-localism-sustainable-food-20/ ...I probably missed the best one, but it is too far away. Oh, well. Happy St. Patty's Day http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/17/wrong-session-in-the-am/ I am not sure what he was thinking, but it looks somber. [caption id="attachment_191" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="A pensive moment for Scott."][/caption] Dave, on the other hand, becomes a walking billboard... http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/16/a-somber-fiddelke/ Last year I got my pic taken with Tantek Cilek (you know the box-model hack dude). This year I probably made another well-known internet geek feel vaguely like he had a stalker. I am not sure how many people approach someone and tell them they have read their dissertation and ... http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/16/me-and-the-opera-dude/ Monday, 16 March 2009 at 5:00PM Panel: Mark Trammell - Digg Juliette Melton - Lumos Labs Nate Bolt - Bolt|Peters Carla Borsoi - Ask.com Andy Budd - Clearleft Ltd Who has people doing user research? Most of the audience does. What tools do you use? Budd:  Talking directly to users to see how they go about doing what they ... http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/16/developing-super-senses-tools-to-know-your-users/ Monday, 16 March 2009 at 3:30PM Panel: Nick Finck - Blue Flavor Donna Spencer - Maadmob Michael Angeles - Traction Software I mostly just listened to this as I was late and there was no place to setup. Very cool. I will look for a copy of their presentation. Yes, they will be available on slidecast. http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/16/wireframes-for-the-wicked/ Monday, 16 March 2009 at 11:30AM Panel: Arun Ranganathan - Mozilla Chris Wilson - Microsoft Brendan Eich (created javascript) - Mozilla Foundation Charles McCathieNevile - Opera Software Darin Fisher - Google Summary: We're doing *so darn much* with the Web platform these days, from cross-domain access mechanisms to new drawing and graphics tools. But in the end, ... http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/16/browser-wars-iii-the-platform-wins/ Monday, 16 March 2009 at 10:00AM Presenters: Marshall Kirkpatrick - ReadWriteWeb Louis Gray - louisgray.com Gabe Rivera - Techmeme Melanie Baker - AideRSS Inc Micah Baldwin - Lijit Networks Inc Panel discussing methods for finding the best content on the web. Gray uses Google Reader sharing as the source and syndicates from there initially. memeorandum.com PostRank looks pretty cool. Whether ... http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/16/beyond-aggregation-finding-the-webs-best-content/ Sunday, 15 March 2009 at 5:00PM Presenters: Danny O'Brien - eff.org Eva Galperin - eff.org EFF is a legal firm with a technological arm and activism arm. Their goal is to create precedence to guide what we feel the law should be. They often view their job as updating what the law applies to ... http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/15/how-not-to-be-evil-even-by-accident/ Sunday, 15 March 2009 at 3:30PM Moderators: Brad Ward - BlogHighEd.org Dylan Wilbanks - University of Washington School of Public Health #sxswed is the hash tag for higher ed topics. eduStyle just put out a book. It looks good. I really need to get on creating a brand style guide i even if it very short ... http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/15/the-web-in-higher-education-whats-different/ Sunday, 15 March 2009 at 10:00AM Presenters: Matt Mullenweg - Automattic/WordPress Karen Nguyen - Yahoo! Zach Nies - Rally Software Development Joe Pezzillo - joepezzillo.com Derek Scruggs - SurveyGizmo Gist of this is how version control is becoming more easily integrated into individual and team work. A good understanding and trust of version control gives one the ... http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/15/version-control-no-more-save-as/ Saturday, 14 March 2009 at 5:00PM Presenters: Henry Copeland - Blogads.com Zadi Diaz - EPIC FU Jeff Jarvis - What Would Google Do? Michael Monello - Campfire Sara Smith - Wonkette This session is mostly for fun and some of the following is PG-13 (or R). Read on with that in mind. The meat of it was ... http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/14/suxorz-09-the-ten-worst-social-media-campaigns/ Saturday, 14 March 2009 at 3:30PM Presenters:  Merlin Mann and John Gruber Of course, the title of this session is farcical, but it is what they talked about tangentially. Their assumptions: all of you make things and all of you want to become better and you want respect and credibility of others. Walt Disney: ... http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/14/howto-149-surprising-ways-to-turbocharge-your-blog-with-credibility/ Saturday, 14 March 2009 at 2:00PM Tony Hsieh - Zappos.com He looks way young. He started out with his own homegrown pizza business in university. Then founded LinkExchange and sold it to Microsoft ($265 million). He learned al lot of leassons about company culture with LinkExchange. When sold it had about 100 employees ... http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/14/opening-remarks-tony-hsieh-zapposcom/ Saturday, 14 March 2009 at 11:30AM Presenter:  Lawrence Lessig - Stanford Law School This talk is about Trust. It is very difficult to take notes on Lawrence Lessig's talks. That is and remains to be why I have not pursued my law degree at Stanford. He is brilliant to just listen to ... http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/14/change-v2-lawrence-lessig/ Saturday - 14 March 2009 at 10:00AM Presenter:  Gregg Pollack - Rails Envy This was an interesting talk about creating RESTful apps and the grammar of web apps. It was very interesting and gave me some things to research. I am not a developer in Rails or Python all the time. I ... http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/14/how-not-to-fail-at-web-services/ How great a name is that?!? ...and, yes, the death metal was loud. http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/13/great-name-for-a-pizza-place/ Friday, 13 March 2009 at 5:00PM [caption id="attachment_47" align="alignnone" width="528" caption="Panel for the Buzz Out Loud podcast"][/caption] Link to the podcast at cnet. http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/13/buzz-out-loud-podcast-taping/ Friday, 13 March 2009 at 3:30PM Presenter:  Paul Annett - Clearleft Ltd Basically, this presentation focused on the power of Easter eggs in design and their power to please users. When people see the existence of something hidden or the trick of the trick, they want to share with everyone. He gives ... http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/13/oooh-thats-clever-unnatural-experiments-in-web-design/ Friday, 13 March 2009 at 2:00PM Presenter:  Dan Willis - Sapient Making the argument that the Harry Potter movie site is everything that is wrong with web design. Why? They hide the web native stuff. Everything else is basically print magazine stuff regurgitated for the web- "Print in Disguise". Headlines are a ... http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/13/everything-you-know-about-web-design-is-wrong/ We did not do our research and this was sold out. Bummer. http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/12/python-quote-along/ I had forgotten ot get a camera case before I left for SXSW and was mentally kicking myself, but the gods smiled upon me when I opened my conference schwag bag. It is even a Crumpler case. FTW!!! http://regnskygge.net/sxsw2009/2009/03/12/the-best-timely-schwag/