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Obama Inauguration Day 14
Union Park, like its brethren on West Sixth Street — Molotov, Annie’s West, J. Black’s, Star Bar, Little Woodrow’s, Key Bar, Opal Divine’s, Mother Egan’s — generously opens its social wonders to the street. Walking to my 10th Obama Day party, I recalled that the capacious, two-story Union Park was hosting an inaugural bash with the GeekAustin group.
James Setaro, Jenn Deering Davis
So I dropped in. By this time — 10 p.m. — this collection of people from the tech industry were well into revelry mode. The only sign of geekiness that I witnessed was a screen projected on one of the bar’s back walls with some sort of geeky controls. (I couldn’t get close enough to decipher.) Oh, that and the electronica act playing up front.
Noelle Davis, Nathan Batiste
What ambushed me as I greeted the guys and gals of GeekAustin was that everyone seemed to know who I was. They had friended me on Facebook or were following my micro-blogs on Twitter. Jenn Deering Davis, chief of community experience for Appozite, had even been following my party circuit all that Inauguration Day.
Karen Ngo, Steve Odom, Brian Smith
My conversation partners also demonstrated familiarity with Statesman writers Omar Gallaga and Addie Broyles through their online personae. One expressed mild shock that our Old Media outlet had infiltrated social media so quickly and thoroughly. My only guess: The technology fits our personalities and reporting habits.
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