Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • SXSW namedropping, day three

    I must be getting old (duh) since by then end of a half-hour fascinating conversation I no longer remember the name of the person I just met and it’s too dark and rainy to discreetly look at their badge to refresh my decaying braincells, so apologies in advance to very cool people (you know who…

  • Raw notes from 'Everything you wanted to know about the mobile web…' @ sxsw

    …but were afraid to ask: Great talk! Very thorough. Making me, helping rethink my upcoming Mobile IA presentation at the IA Summit. Here are my raw notes. Apologies for the stream of consciousness nature. You may be better off with Brian Fling’s slides. Who is Brian Fling? dir of strategy for blue flavor mobile designer…

  • SXSW namedropping, day two

    Met (and saw) fewer new people today, but spent time with some of the same folks from yesterday, and hung out a lot with Ted and Kirsten: * [Kiersten Lammerding](http://yahoo.com/) (got a better link k-lo?) * KD / Kristy (klo’s friend from the evil empire) * [Ted Nadeau](http://dotline.com/) * [Robert Scoble](http://scobleizer.com/) * [Chris Messina](http://factoryjoe.com/) *…

  • SXSW namedropping, day one

    Links are people I talked to. Nonlinks are people I spotted but didn’t talk to. I know I’m leaving people out from Break Bread with Brad at Buffalo Billiards. I didn’t always get everyone’s name and by then my beer-to-food ratio was really out of whack (had only southwest peanuts all day until George kicked…

  • Funny blog spam today

    It was actually trackback spam: Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product.

  • Get-rich-quick blog spam

    It’s been interesting to watch the evolutionary dance of spam and blogs. Comment spam. Trackback spam. Splogs. Now here’s a bit of email spam targetting the would-be pro blogger: >Hi, > >I don’t like to waste valuable time of creative blogmasters. >But I cann’t resist myself from this tempting offer too. Hello, you may know…