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And it begins…
… right… NOW!
I’m heading over to the Austin Convention Center in a few minutes to pick up my Interactive badge and start this crazy thing we call South by Southwest Interactive.
There are a million things left to do, and I wanted to go through all my SXSWi e-mails one last time to make sure I didn’t miss anything, but at some point you have to just let go and jump into the water. (Lots of water today; the weather outside is awful.)
Here are a few loose ends I wanted to mention before we dive into panel reviews and festival coverage:
- Austin’s Radar.net just released an update to its iPhone app that allows integration with Flickr. Very handy for posting photos on the go and perfect timing for the fest.
- Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will be on “Oprah” today. I’ll have to miss it, but hope to watch it late tonight. I wonder if people will be talking about the fest. In the newsroom, we’ve been talking a lot about the new home page design (not all of us have it yet).
- My full schedule for the fest (still tweaking it) is at http://sxsw2009.sched.org/omarg.
- Not related to the fest, but today is the last day of work for our editorial cartoonist Ben Sargent and TV writer Diane Holloway. To say that this makes the first day of SXSWi bittersweet would be a vast understatement.
- The song (NSFW at all) “South by Girls” is taking the fest by storm (maybe).
- Austin’s Powered Inc. will be putting up podcasts from the fest starting Monday. They’ve got Robert Scoble, Guy Kawasaki, Chris Brogan, Angela Benton, Chris Pirillo and Cathy Brooks lined up.
- Our A-List will be all over the fest taking pictures. Smile for the camera!
Lots more to say, surely, but I think i should just head on over. See you attendees there!
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