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South by Southwestern

South by Southwest
March 12-17, 2004
Austin Texas
A technology media culture conference amidst TexMex, BBQ and cheap beer. Yum.

I've been going to SXSW since 1999; here's some coverage of 2002, 2003. And coverage of 2004 below. Besides that, I wrote an article about the ideas in the air this year: "Social Surveillance for Mobile Media" on TheFeature.com.

SXSW 2004 There, by the grace of Hugh, am I. Picture with the conference organizer for South by Southwest Interactive, a man I have cadjoled, disappointed and delighted in for years now. He's been very kind to give me an excuse to come to a great town, participate in a smart fun conference. Photo by Seabrook.
SXSW 2004 The "Blogumentary" team.
SXSW 2004 Howard stands under a mural at the Telepathic Tattoo parlor.
SXSW 2004 Dan and Howard talking over Mexican food. I later joined them in the quiet lounge atop the Crown Plaza hotel, talking journalism.
SXSW 2004 Anil and Jason - black-shirted, blue-jeaned brothers in business blogging.
SXSW 2004 Lia (cheesedip) and Yi-May Chinese American Princess) with an umbrella in her hair. Nice to put faces on URLs!
SXSW 2004 Lia (cheesedip) took this photo of me.
SXSW 2004 Cory brandishes well-deserved BoingBoing awards as Boris hoists a star over his head
SXSW 2004 The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Wendy working hard in the green room.
SXSW 2004 Jane conducted a panel on multiplayer online games, with James, embedded reporter in an MMOG and Sheri, author of a book on gender-inclusive game design.
SXSW 2004 I had a panel immediately after, about Games and Art. One of the panelists didn't show - I used my mobile phone to carry his voice - details here. Comments after the panel: interesting, the speaker-phone worked, but it wasn't the panel described in the booklet. Someone suggested I do that panel as described next year!
SXSW 2004 The front row at the Online Dating panel included John, danah and Molly.
SXSW 2004 As the event wound down, I joined a group of WI-FI sippers riding out the last bits and bytes. "Hey Cory, let's go to dinner!" "Hold on - I'm installing a new operating system upgrade." Joi played clips of Rumsfeld on Meet the Press for David and Andy. And danah and I were there too.
SXSW 2004 Warren and Caroline, at an Austin Game Developers's Party.
SXSW 2004 Kevin and Tom, from OK-Cancel, with the cards they designed - I wrote about them on GameGirlAdvance.
SXSW 2004 Meg and Ryan at La Mexicana. I ate there four times, each time after 11pm. Delicious chile relleno, meat and vegetarian tacos, and on the last night, I took a recommendation for chicarones - cooked pork skins stuffed in a taco-type deal. Good chance to practice my Spanish.
SXSW 2004 Cookies at La Mexicana - colorful. But I didn't eat any!
SXSW 2004 My hosts at La Mexicana, and elsewhere - Randy and Lulu.
SXSW 2004 Lulu is an expert chef, practicing daily. Here she works up simple delicious kale and olives with garlic.
SXSW 2004 Lulu is an expert chef, practicing daily. Here she kneads dough for oven-baked wheat bread. Her t-shirt reads: "Fawn are Scanamping"
SXSW 2004 Randy speaks to Ryan on my mobile phone during an AMODA show.
SXSW 2004 This is Treewave, two folks playing dot matrix printers and old Atari hardware. Fantastic! I invited him to be on my panel, but he was too busy.
SXSW 2004 Meg took this picture, saying I looked a bit like Less Than Zero. I was smiling too wide here for a total night denizen look though.
SXSW 2004 Zack lifts some large BBQ to his mouth. All week, it was BBQ and TexMex. And Lulu's vegetarian fare! Good eating.
index.html In Bruce Sterling's library, Zack Rosen meets Zack Simpson - standing Zack Simpson is responsible for the moving Shadow Garden, playing with human form and computer interaction. Zack has self-taught himself enough biology to be working in a graduate studies lab doing advanced biotech research. Listening to him and Cory talk about future scenarios for smart bacteria was brain stirring.
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