Southby 2010

I’ve been trying to put this year’s South by Southwest Interactive experience into words, but it’s proving impossible. I was hoping to come home inspired and focused, and I definitely got what I wanted. I’ve already been doing some work in the area of online privacy, and the keynotes and sessions I went to proved that I’m on the right track. Stay tuned!

During the conference I wrote reviews of the sessions I attended at Lunch.com. Please go check out the reviews from me and others, and while you’re there have a look at Lunch, it’s a great new community site!

To name a few who helped make the trip special:

Adele McAlear shared my hotel room and was a fantastic roommate. Her research in death and digital legacy is fascinating stuff!

Sarah Vela let me tag along as she met with people to help promote her awesome new site helpattack.com (go sign up!) She introduced me to bunches of amazing people.

I devoted an entire blog post to how Thom Singer helped me out. Go read it.

Len Edgerly joined us for a recording of Push My Follow despite my failure to record our attempt to do the same thing last year!

Thomas Knoll invited me to help promote Lunch.com and proved once again why he’s so good at what he does. Look for him to cause fireworks in his new job at Zappos!

Conversations with Amber Marlow Blatt inspired me yet again. Love that girl.

I had a long, rambly conversation with Jason Jarrett at the end of a long day and it was just what I needed!

I finally met Ann, Shannon, Gavin, Ethan, & Baratunde!

Bonus- I got to grab a quick empanada with my grammar school classmate Linda! We hadn’t seen each other since 1977!

Others I hung out with or at least hugged:
Rob
Sarah
Tracy
Jake
Krissi
Mike
Phil
Zane
Wesley
Lloyd
Melissa
Steve
Rachael
Mary Ann
Jeff
Cathy
C.C.
Zane
Ewan
Becky
Derrick
Keith
Jeff
Jane
Alicia
Brian

Happy to have also met:
Kelly
Molly
Beth
Ian
Randall
Angie
Kevin
Mark
Liz
Joanna
Debbie
Diana
Noah
Sam
Cindy
Heather
and tons of others whose names I never even got (bad Annie!)

Sorry I missed:
Laura
Dave
Giannii
Sukhjit
Erin
Lucretia
Gary
Aliza
Chris
Bryan
Goldie

(if I saw you and missed naming you I apologize- I tried but I’m sure I forget a few!)

Until next year, Austin!