August 2008
25 posts
The Singularity Summit 2008 -- Opportunity, Risk,... →
This is the panel I’m organizing at the upcoming Singularity Summit. It is going to be an awesome weekend.
Semantic Web and the Roadmap to AI — Powerset, Twine and Freebase may be the “holy trinity” of the Semantic Web, but over the next year a new crop of entries will emerge, each with a powerful set of opportunities. Josh Dilworth from Porter Novelli will moderate a...
SXSW Panel Picker closes tomorrow! →
Here’s my list of favorites — on the blog, and my Delicious tag (I don’t have to write the dots in “Delicious” anymore, right?)
SXSWi isn’t just about the parties, y’all — it’s about the great content, the zeitgeist of the industry, and this is your chance to have a say in what’s presented come March.
Flickr -- Jonesworth Wedding →
247 pics and counting…thanks to everyone for an incredible week!! Liz and I couldn’t be happier. We now resume our normal programming…
Austinites -- Please take this survey! →
Deliver me from Swedish furniture →
This is just hilarious — it delivers you back what your Swedish furniture name would be;) Mine = SVÖSVUA!
SXSWi Panel Picker is live!
Let the unabashed pimping begin;)
In all seriousness, though, the parties are great and get all of the bloggy attention, but it’s the content at SXSW that really matters. THAT’s what keeps people coming back, and with the panel picker we get to see that content develop before us via a unique mix of crowdsourcing, an advisory board, and the SXSW staff – no one else does anything...
SitePoint -- 15 Companies That Really Get... →
Big props to FiveRuns on being selected for this list, thanks to Josh Catone for calling out the good work, and a huge shout-out to all of the great Rails peeps who have participated in the TakeFive interview series.
“FiveRuns, who create products aimed at Ruby on Rails developers, also publish an excellent blog. Along with regular tutorials about how to do things with Rails and use their...
Josh is getting married, suckas
Soo…no more bloggy action from yours truly for two weeks while we’re in Iowa getting hitched;) BUT, you’ll love this, a reporter from the AP is covering our wedding (I guess that’s what happens when you marry a PR hack, hehe). So hopefully our story will be coming to a local paper near you! In the meantime if you want to keep up with the action, check out our wedding...
13 Important Austin Technology Blogs →
Mashable is sending crazy love Austin’s way these days. Mark, you ROCK. Thanks for the shout-out too!
From Baltimore to Beijing →
This is one of the most amazing blogs I’ve seen in a long time, the Baltimore Sun guys (admittedly ripping off Slate) doing a back-and-forth letter/diary style account of their experiences at the Games. It’s both insight and hilarious.
