When did going to Texas become heading east?
Yeehaw, I'm heading to Austin, TX, home of live music, good food, and, next week only, the greatest assembly of geeks y'all have ever seen.
Oh yes, I am heading to my second annual SXSW. But east? Am I really heading east to get there? I suppose I am getting whats comin' to me, as last year I benefited from the time change on my way into town. Though I did lose a suitcase for a few days...
In preparation for this great event, and in the event that you are also in Austin and want to say hi, here is my schedule for SXSWi '06.
Friday, March 10, 2006
- 4:22pm CST - Arrive at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport
- 5ish - Meet up with my peeps at The Salt Lick for some finger lickin' good BBQ
- 7pm - Break Bread With Brad
- Continue excitement until the wee hours o' the morn
Saturday, March 11, 2006
- 10am - Traditional Design and New Technology
- 11:30am - How to be a design superhero
- 2pm - Jim Coudal / Jason Fried Opening Remarks
- 3:30pm - How to bluff your way into DOM scripting
- 5:00pm - Starting Small: Web Business for the rest of us
- 6:30pm - SXSWi University Social
- 8pm - frog design opening party
- 10pm - AMODA 5th Anniversary Digital Showcase
- 10:30pm - South by Northwest
Sunday, March 12, 2006
- 10am - What's hot in web applications
- 11:30am - How to make the most of maps
- 2pm - Demystifying the mobile web
- 3:30pm - Web 2.1: Making Web 2.0 Accessible
- 5pm - Flickr, Upcoming.org, and Del.icio.us in the company of Yahoo!
- 8pm - Fray Cafe Austin 6
Monday, March 13, 2006
- 10am - CSS Problem Solving
- 11:30am - Standard Deviation: Hacks and dirty tricks for the web
- 2pm - Craig Newmark Keynote Interview
- 3:30pm - Designing for Community with 'Zero-Advertising' Brands
- 5pm - Design Eye for the List Guy
- 6:30pm - Blogger Party
- 7pm - 20×2, version 6.0: 'What's the Secret?'
- 9pm - Adaptive Path + Consumating + Odeo SXSW Party
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
- 10am - Behind the Scenes: Developing OS X and Longhorn
- 11:30am - Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps
- 2pm - Burnie Burns Keynote
- 3:30pm - RSS: Not just for blogs anymore
- 5pm - Bruce Sterling Presentation: The State of the World
- 8pm - Comedians of Comedy: Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, Eugene Mirman, Flight of the Conchords
If you're not coming this year and any of this sounds remotely cool to you, I beg you, for all that is good an holy, come next year!
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Who is this guy?
Okay. I first heard about South-by-Southwest this past summer and I was under the impression it was primarily about music. Of course, the first person to mention it to me was working in Austin as a programmer.Nevertheless, I can't seem to escape it. So, instead, I'll just listen to their audio stream.Have fun. And don't catch anything... like being Republican.
John: SXSW was originally a music fest, a place where bands who didn't have any major label support could go to catch a break. Since then, it's become more and more corporate, attracting already-established acts (though the newcomers are still there, too - just not in the numbers there used to be).
And now it's branched out to movies and tech. Go fig....
Sam: have a kick-butt time out there! And remember: east is all relative. You could say that you're heading west by 22 time zones, rather than east by two.
Bush is always right, aachoo....
I think I've caught something and I haven't even left town yet. It must be all that Steven Colbert exposure.
Rudi: You are right that SXSW is getting more corporate. For the record, Interactive and Film were added back in '94.