December 2009
3 posts
My boilerplate SXSWi hotel recommendations
‘Tis the season, and it seems that everyone wakes up on 12/1 and realizes that they’re about to get screwed on SXSWi hotels. Which they are, hehe.
First —SXSW isn’t lying to you about the housing desk — it really is great and it really does work. I’d mostly recommend calling them first.
That said, everyone wants “inside intel” of which, in truth,...
November 2009
7 posts
SXSWi Accelerator Deadline Approaching + Free...
I am honored to be part of the incredible Advisory Board for the second annual SXSWi Accelerator. I’m also happy to report that the 2010 event is shaping up most excellently. The application deadline however, is 12/4 and quickly approaching.
SXSWi is as zeitgest-y as it gets — the event literally helps define the “spirt of the age and our society” etymologically speaking....
Datastreaming, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying...
UPDATE: The WSJ just wrote a very nice in-depth piece on this trend.
NOTE: this post also ended up serving as the conceptual basis for two guest pieces for Mashable, above.
We’ve had heart rate monitors for some time now. We have scales in the bathroom, speedometers (and more recently fuel efficiency measures) in the car, and all manner of timesheets in the workplace. Every day, we gather...