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The Overview of SXSW 2007

 March.21st.2007 • 11:03PM No Comments

This is the story of a guy, a girl and a conference. The conference was SXSW in Austin, TX and the story is about the journey from their home in San Jose to Austin, and back. It was long and boring drive, which was eclipsed by an awesome conference.

As one of the last to sound-off on this awesome conference, I’ll try not to bore you with some of the details. What I am going to do is commit grand theft entry on my friend DKR and take a look at the conference from (hopefully) a different set of lenses.

For this conference goer, the trip to Austin and back spanned 17 days and over 2,500 driven miles. Even though I’d probably never drive halfway across the country ever again, what I found and experienced in Austin has once again changed my outlook for the ...

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The Success That Was ABX

 March.17th.2007 • 4:55PM No Comments

This is the story of a guy, a girl and an event they threw at a conference in Austin, Texas. The event was a bowling event, and the conference was SXSW. This is a chronicle of the aftermath of said event.

In the next few days, as I find myself back in the environment I call home, I’ll be able to fill you in on my experiences at this year’s SXSWi. (Although, I’m sure all of you have already had your fill of SXSW related posts.) But let’s talk bowling for a little bit, shall we? To make a potentially long story short—this year’s event was more than Jen and I could ever hoped for. In case you want the long version, keep reading.

As with all things that require planning, the real test ...

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The Long Way Home

 September.23rd.2006 • 11:10PM No Comments

This is the continuing story of a guy and a conference. Although this story takes place at an airport, an airport he happens to be stuck at for the night.

8:39 PM

I tried mobile blogging this, but unfortunately my lovely Samsung A900 doesn’t like blogging. I’m unfortunately stuck in Corpus Christi at the moment, on what was supposed to be an hour trip to Houston. From the looks of it, we weren’t able to get to Houston because of a raging storm. Actually, the passenger next to me lives 5 miles from George Bush International, and his wife had a different opinion on the weather, or lack of opinion when he called her. However, I know I did see something out my window - well ...

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The Jam Session

 September.22nd.2006 • 10:03PM No Comments

This is the story of a guy going to another conference. Rather, going to a conference to speak - by himself - for the first time. That conference is the Webmaster Jam Session in Dallas, Texas.

Dead Happy. Dead Tired. Dead… something else that I forgot.

(I’m writing this on 5 Coronas and 1 Heineken, so forgive me.)

This conference has been unnecessarily grateful and unnecessarily nice with rooms that have been unnecessarily big. All in all, at the end of day 1, I admit that I’ve been a bit spoiled for my first speaking engagement. Not just me, but all of the speakers have been treated extremely well. Sort of sets the tone, I guess. ;)

Just to summarize, the Jam Session has been an awesome, intimate event and has allowed me to ...

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WebVisions 2006 Wrap-Up

 July.23rd.2006 • 12:34PM No Comments

This is the story of a guy and his journey to Portland, Oregon to attend WebVisions 2006.

SXSW in March was my first web conference, ever. So for those of you who have been, you could see my expectations coming into my second conference experience with the smaller WebVisions event - which was proudly curated by Brad Smith of Hot Pepper Studios with the help of tens of others. The short of it is, even with some mix-ups, it definitely rivaled SXSW as one of my favorites (doesn’t say much). The long story will follow.

Day 0

It seems like every time I take Southwest to go anywhere, I’m always racing against time in order ...

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