SXSW Exhibitor Awakes on His First Morning in Town
 
First, apologies. This post would have appeared sometime last week, as promised, had there not been a minor catastrophe. Part of it was my fault, but part of it wasn't. The part that was my fault was spilling coffee into my computer. Okay, that was dumb. The Continue Reading

A couple of weeks ago, a 51-year-old man went to the dentist in Austin, Texas. He got in the chair, the anesthesiologist went to work and...an hour later, the group in the dentist's office had grown considerably, and someone said "He's gone." And he was: my friend Brent Grulke had suffered cardiac arrest and was Continue Reading

Innocent young woman menaced by Glomper; her life saved by the device in her hand. The person accompanying the beast told us that Glomper "means something in Russian." Now, no *way* that goes on my computer!

AUSTIN, TEXAS -- I don't have the final figures (I couldn't: this is being written Monday as registration is theoretically still going on, and so far there have been 15,000 last-minute walk-ups), but it now appears that SXSW Interactive is outdrawing SXSW Film and SXSW Music. Not surprising, considering that the ubiquity of the digital Continue Reading