Clay Shirky, with sponsors It’s hard to believe I started going to SXSW eleven years ago, but for my ninth trip to Austin, I decided to do it up like an adult with a family and kids and only stay a few days instead of doing a 6-7 day drunken bender like years past. I …
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My SXSW 2011 talk on lessons from 11 years of community
Lessons from 11 years of community (my SXSW 2011 talk) from Matt Haughey on Vimeo. This past Saturday, I gave a talk at SXSW Interactive on some lessons in moderation and growing a community that was sparsely attended (I was half a mile away in one of the outlying hotels, no biggie — it …
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come break bread with us at the Old Timers Ball
SXSW is coming up and as it has gotten bigger, it has gotten harder to find friends, so Kevin Smokler, Kevin Newsum, and I thought it would be nice to throw an “Old Timers Ball” for ye olde school webloggers to meet, greet, and catch up with each other on the first Friday night. It’ll …
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SXSWi 2010 recap
Now that I’ve slept it off and a couple days have passed, I feel like I can start processing the past week in Austin Texas for the South By Southwest Interactive Conference. Some quick bits follow. Huge Crowds I’d heard this would be the biggest SXSWi ever and I certainly remember not having as much …
Break Bread for Brad
Mark your calendars for Break Bread For Brad at this year’s SXSW Interactive Festival. Friday March 12th, 5pm-8pm at the Mohawk. It’s not a wake, but a celebration, and hopefully we can continue the welcome gathering to open SXSW in future years. All who knew (or even knew of) Brad are welcome.
I wasn’t supposed to die…
It looks like parts of Will Wright’s excellent keynote were uploaded to the SXSW site today and I mistakenly opened all three parts into browser tabs. The resulting sound was quite pleasing, so I recorded all three tabs running at once, as I switched between them. It ends rather perfectly, so watch the minute or …
SXSW 2007 recap
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #666; } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 10px; margin-top: 0px;color:#999; } The big room, originally uploaded by mathowie. – SXSW was huge this year. Word on the street was 5,500 interactive attendees filled the halls. Due to this, a lot of the big public parties …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 