go to SXSW Interactive

I just got my pass for SXSW 2008. This will be my 9th SXSWi (and my first SXSW Music – I finally got a Platinum badge).

SO SO SO SO SO FUN but music was even funner. I highly recommend it.

this is the place to be. The career connections and friendships are unquestionably worth it.

I am on a panel, my hotel is booked and I got a free pass. Totally achievable.

So i guess i am going! W00t!

was fun, head still full of ideaz

Hopefully I can go next year. posted tons of pics to flickr.com under username jenredstar. ta!

The most exciting talk i heard was by Adam Greenfield presenting his thoughts that have found published form in the book Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing. A man who understands Deleuze, who speaks with a engaging fluidity and intelligence that made many other presentations seem either dry or ho-hum. In general, the feeling at SXSW interactive seems to be that the CSS revolution has been accomplished, though not televised, and many are now basking in the radioactive afterglow of Web 2.0: Rails, Ruby, AJAX, tagging, bottom up development via community (Flickr, Wikipedia) and “design entrepreneurship” – becoming your own client, as was the focus at Coudal and Fried’s cushy chair conversation. It’s a rather insulated world with a disproportionate sense of power culled through blogging success, in which the real market economies and labor ebbs and flows and corporate consolidations are calmly sidelined in the spirit of the geeks have inherited the earth. But they really haven’t; they’ve just won a few battles. Deterritorialized movements of words, images and video publishing are thriving like poppy fields fed by fish emulsion, but the Machine still marches on. Google holds the odd position as both “one of us” and “Them”, a limbic existence in the development world that can’t always handle its own success. Self-congratulatory gestures don’t make for the best presentations – I’m thinking of ambient findability here and the self-consciousness of bloggers become stars. The Everyware presentation took off the blinders, widened the perspective and showed how the visibility of screens is giving way, to quote the Swans, to omniscient, omnipresent, omnivorous computing—hidden, tactless, segregating instrument of the society of control.

I am at SXSW right now!

(I’m actually posting this from the “bluffing your way in DOM scripting” session.)

flyin’ to austin tomorrow to bask in the pixel pushin’ style sheeting dom-inatin’ mobile messagin’ madness of it all. panels all day, films in the evening and raincheck the parties i’ll be meditating in my hotel room to trance tara