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Awesome presenter Derek Powazek (of www.fray.com and www.powzek.com) speaks today on:  How do we apply James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds to our online design and creation?  While the book was written about economics, the concept is also great for designers wanting to get user feedback and participation on sites, which is pretty much everyone. [...]

John Gruber (Daring Fireball) and Merlin Mann – How to turbo-charge your Blog "We don't make movies to make money.  We make money to make more movies" ~Walt DisneySignificant paradigm shift in the way you view your Blogging activity.  Regardless of what your topic is, you can do it better and more creatively.  You just [...]

I am incredibly fortunate to be sent to SXSWi again this year (thanks Schipul and Ed!!) and am, as always, having a heck of a time trying to pick out panels, parties and networking events.  But you know, this is a stupid awesome problem to have. Where will you be?  What are you not-to-miss panels [...]

So there is this magical place called SXSW (‘south by southwest’ for those whose brains have been inundated with acronyms and might have just spent 2 minutes trying to figure out what the ‘x’ stands for). It is a happy beautiful conference land in the middle of Austin, TX where geeks, film buffs and music [...]

SXSW Interactive Festival 2008 was super, as always.  While the quality of panel content wasn’t as consistent as I would’ve hoped, the people, events and general camaraderie  were outstanding.  As were the beer, wine, Nuclear Tacos and the 400 times we ate at Iron Cactus.  Also as were (if that even makes sense), the awesome [...]