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C.C. Chapman interviews me on SXSW for Newbies

While at SXSW, C.C. Chapman created a video series called SXSW for Newbies using mDialog. Here’s my interview with him, where he asked for advice for Newbies: We also recorded a quick demo of Nanoloop, the Gameboy music creation cart I’ve been working with. Watch the nanoloop demo[ READ MORE ]

Heading to SXSW – New “Skiff at SXSW” blog!

I’m gearing up for my trip to South By Southwest, and I’ve set up a new blog for the occasion! I’m going to be clip-to-blogging everything interesting I see around SXSW and Barcamp Austin, so I don’t want to flood my loyal readers here. If you’d like to follow along, you can check out the [ READ MORE ]

Launch Day is April 1st – No Joke!

SXSW has come and gone, but I’m still catching up on the sessions I missed by listening to the podcasts. Just the fact that you can listen to many of the keynote talks on your own time on your own device is pretty amazing and there’s lots of good stuff to hear, but many of [ READ MORE ]

DIY – doing more with less

Grr. I really have to learn to save more. I just lost a great long post, but it’s going to force a rewrite and two separate posts here, which is a good thing. Short summary: I’m in a Do It Yourself panel right now that’s giving me a lot of great advice. I’m sorry to [ READ MORE ]

Henry Rollins Quotes from SXSW

  • March 12th, 2006
  • Posted in SXSW

I’m sitting listening to Henry Rollins speak right now. He’s got a lot of great stuff to say, and is “I think it’s lazy to randomly hate someone. I don’t like Ann Coulter because I’ve read her books and I’ve read her online column. As much as I’d like to spank that ass… (laughter) And [ READ MORE ]

Barcamp Austin Relflections

The longer I’m in Austin, the more I like it. There’s an expectation you have of Texas when you live in the northeast, that it’s this place of sand and sparse grass and bleached white cattle skulls. So far, Austin is simply like a smaller new york. Actually, I think it’s fair to say that [ READ MORE ]

BarCamp, SXSW, Texas, and other crazy words

Two weeks ago, I participated in an ad-hoc un-conference called BarCamp (photos). BarCamp was basically my ideal conference: plenty of space (generously donated by CollegeHumor.com), lots of good presentation tracks, brilliant people, and no vendors pushing Schwag and products you don’t need. Best of all, it was free – the only rule was that if [ READ MORE ]

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