As far as wired conferences go, South By Southwest seems to really be getting it right. You can see all of their oferrings in the SXSW Toolbox. Here’s a list of the resources I have used or checked out so far, and of course the event hasn’t even started yet:
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so uninformed as to be nonsensical
“…so uninformed as to be nonsensical.” That’s how Google’s attorneys describe the Bush administration’s request for data on every search perfomed in a given week, in another attempt to protect us by spying on us. Thanks, but no thanks, big brother.
It’s all relative
Maybe Jessie Beard was right:
 How rich are you? >> I’m loaded. |
Hat tip: I found the Global Rich List (which is designed like a hypercard deck from a 1980’s Macintosh) via a cool tool called StumbleUpon that a co-worker just pointed me to.
Stop coddling Democrats
Radical Russ has a great essay on Pam’s House Blend today about how progressives need to stop coddling the Democratic Party and start demanding true representation of our values. My favorite passage:
“And when this giant awakes, he does freaky radical things like throw crates of tea in Boston Harbor, secede from the Union, riot in the streets for unionization, march from Selma to Montgomery, and burn bras and draft cards.”
Keep reading for a longer excerpt or go read the whole thing.
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Go Dick Go
I can’t imagine how excruciatingly painful it must be to be shot in the face, neck, and chest with a shotgun. My deepest sympathies to Mr. Whittington, and I wish him a speedy recovery.
That said… how perfect is this whole Cheney shooting debacle! It’s a great microcosm for this administration: Cheney is ruthless and violent, Bush is out of the loop, the press secretary is even more so. This administration can’t even look open and honest when they actually have nothing to hide. Plus they were hunting without the proper license – these are the people who supposed to uphold our laws? This looks so bad even the GOP is pissed off.
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Double header
We’re in for a treat today, basketball fans. Not only is the UNC men’s team (“we’re #23, woot!”) playing Miami. The still-#1-ranked UNC women’s team is playing Virginia and it’s on TV!
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Upgrading
I just upgraded my blog software from WordPress 1.5 to 2.0.1! So far so good. My theme (template design) works fine. I had to disable some of the plug-ins that don’t work on this version, but it seems like the really important ones still work or have new versions, like my favorite subscribe2 (this is the one that sends e-mails to subscribers with the content of each new post).
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Web job @ Self Help
The Center for Community Self-Help, an excellent nonprofit based in Durham, is hiring a Web Producer. Self Help works for economic justice all across the southeastern U.S. through advocacy and it’s innovative micro-lending program. Brian and I have a joint savings account there.
SXSW or bust
If you look really hard on this page you will find me listed as one of many speakers at South by Southwest Interactive. And it’s not a typo!
I’ve always wanted to attend SXSW even back when it was just the hotspot of independent music. The musicians I knew spoke of it with awe. Now I’m not as interested in the indie rock but in the collection of some of the most interesting and creative minds on the Internet. I was invited by Henry Copeland of BlogAds (which is located here in Chapel Hill) to be on a panel called “Revenge of the Blogs: Election 2008.”
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Carter family alive and kicking
I was quite shocked to learn that El Presidente attended and spoke at Coretta Scott King’s funeral, until I heard that other speakers hassled him to his face. (For which I’m sure someone is getting fired right now.)
Former SCLC leader Joseph Lowery wrote a poem to eulogize Mrs. King:
“She extended Martin’s message against poverty, racism and war
She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar
We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there
But Coretta knew and we knew that there are weapons of misdirection right down here
Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war billions more but no more for the poor.”