Austin Blogging, Podcasting – music, tv, radio, sports, sxsw, over 100 interviews with SXSW attendees and more post-SXSW interviews coming! Example interviews: Casey Mckinnon, Veronica Belmont, Cali Lewis, Lindsay Campbell, and over 100 more.
AUSTIN – Springnet — Demonstrators in Austin, Texas showed their support for the protests in Wisconsin by holding an energetic rally at the state Capitol. Several hundred protesters attended the event in Austin Saturday, Feb 26, 2011.
The pro-union crowd sang folk songs and carried placards criticizing budget cuts in Texas and blasting Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to eliminate collective bargaining rights for state employees.
Liberal commentator and onetime Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower, wearing a trademark white cowboy hat, said he was happier than “a flea at a dog show” after seeing the hundreds gathered outside the Capitol. He said progressive voters had become too complacent.
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Casting Call for Austin, Texas HD Independent Feature Film “College House”
Production Title: College House Studio/Independent/Student: Independent Film Production Company: QP Films LLC Union/Non-Union: Non-Union Project Type: Feature Film Project Format: HD Production Location: Austin, Texas Other/Additional Location(s): Kyle, TX Production Start Date: June 12, 2010 Production Wrap Date: June 26, 2010
Synopsis:
College age Dramady (Drama/Comedy) about drugs, sex, and having a good time.
Character Breakdowns:
Mike – 20s, Male, LEAD, His father bought the house and has provided Mike an easy life. Mike goes to college, doesn’t work, and has plenty of cash lying around. Mike goes to college in Austin, but still dates his high school sweetheart, Lauren, who lives in San Antonio
Brice – 20s, Male, LEAD, Brice was a small time pot dealer in high school. He dealt because it made him cool and helped him get girls. In college, he stepped away from this and focused on his education. When he moves into the house, Mike convinces him to get back into drug dealing, but in a big way
Roswell – 20s, Male, LEAD, Roswell is poor and lazy. His great weakness is getting high and playing video games all day. He’s in college, but he cuts class all the time and has no ambition to get a job
Jenny – 20s, Female, LEAD, The quintessential cool stoner chick
Lauren – 20s, Female, Mike’s long-distant girlfriend. Lauren doesn’t want to be a bitch, but in this world, it’s hard to live a productive life being nice
Annabel – 20s, Female, Roswell’s 18 year old sister
Parker – 20s, Male, The fourth roommate. Drug free and a closet homosexual who plays flag football with his lover
Lee – 20s, Male, Flamboyant and outspoken. He befriends Jenny
Ryan – 20s, Male, The character of the director personified. He makes two appearances and delivers a monologue each time
Guy on the Floor – 20s, Male, An alcoholic who trying to drink himself to death. He regularly passes out on the floor
Guy on the Couch – 20s, Male, A buff sexually active college student who tries to sleep with Jenny
Guy in the Chair – 20s, Male, A sexually active college student who sleeps with Jenny
Fat chick – 20s, Female
Mike’s Dad – (Cameo) 50s, business man, sturn. We’d love to consider a recognized actors for this one day role. Much higher pay scale avail.
Paid/Non-Paid: Paid Other/Additional Compensation: Film Credit, DVD Copy Meals/Lodging/Transportation Provided: Meals
Special Notes for Potential Cast/Crew: Pay: 0/day (lead), /day (supporting, but could be higher based on resume)
Special Notes for Potential Cast/Crew: Add actors must be 21+ years old.
Some roles have sexually explicit language and scenes that will be filmed
in a tactful, professional manner. PLEASE READ THE SCRIPT BEFORE
SUBMITTING FOR ANY ROLE (www.collegehousemovie.com)
I revised the list of Austin blogs and Austin web destinations on Spring.net and came up with this new list. The old list had a lot of blogs and websites that weren’t being updated very frequently, or just plain out of business. What do you think of this list? Have I left your favorite Austin based blog or website off the list? I
If you’ve never had the experience of sharing a few beers with Alex @baldman Jones (no, not *that* Alex Jones), you’re missing out on a great experience. This Alex Jones is the one that provides terrific leadership for Refresh Austin.
Alex Jones talks nonstop and 90% of what he says is very, very worthwhile. He’s a complete master of the Austin Tech scene and has complete devotion to the Refresh cause. He darts from topic to topic with lightning ease, Longhorns football, hulu, web design, high def tvs, movies, Arrested Development, 120 Hz vs. plasma. etc.
We met, Obama beer summit style, over brewskis at the newly relocated Gingerman Pub in the 4th Street district of Austin. The idea? Run a web contest to pick the last panel at SXSW. My idea? Eliminate an idea a week for the last ten weeks until only two panel suggestions are left standing, a la American Idol or So you think you can Dance?
The leadership coterie of Refresh pulled together a brilliant gameplan for the last panel in at SXSW, consisting of @pat_ramsey, @baldman, @markphillip and @durandigitalmedia. See my post on http://spring.net/blog for details on the feed structure you can use via Google alerts to keep up with progress on this project.
I told Alex he should podcast but he said he’s such a perfectionist he would end up spending big bucks on gear. But he’d make a great one, because the man has ideas and man can he talk.
I’m trying to get some momentum going for an Alex Jones vs. Alex Jones debate. The Conspiracy Theorist vs. the Refresher Geek. It would be awesome.
One thing for sure, Alex Jones is going to be glued to his plasma for Longhorns season, they’ve got a shot at it this year.
During the week of May 24 through May 31st AustinLifestyles.com, The Spring, BHI, and RegistrationAssistant are hosting a visitor from the Netherlands, Paul Geurts of MyNameisE.com. He is bringing the first prototypes of a social networking and business card connector to Austin, Texas. If you’re around Austin next week and want a demo, call Paul at 512–699–4000 or email terry at spring dot net.
My Name is E
The E device can be used at conventions, trade shows, and meetings, in metropolitian areas like Austin and on college campuses like the University of Texas. There are over 1.2 million conventions, trade shows and events in the US every year.
What is the E device? In its current incarnation, E is small white, sleek looking device much like an ipod nano or USB storage device. With E, you can share your contact information and social networks in one simple gesture.
Connector allows you to safely transfer an online business card and your set of social networks in a simple gesture like a fist pump or a high five. Tap two Connectors together and you’re connected. Synchonize Connector by using the built-in USB plug with your PC or Mac. It is ideal for networking at large events and conferences.
During the week that Paul Geurts is visiting Austin, we will be meeting with venture investors, potential partners, customers and forming a team to distribute and promote E throught the US and North America.
There is no setup with connector, it can be used immediately out of the box. It’s equipped with a lithium polymer battery which allows you to use it for 72 hours on a 2 hour charge. It holds two of your E Business Cards (one for personal and one for professional) and connects to RFID tags as well as other Connectors and iphones. It gives you intuitive feedback through LED lighting. The RFID tag feature opens it up the world of “choice based advertising” and integrates these connections in to your social network activity stream. It connects you to objects and to the environment as well as to people.
At the Austin American Statesman Texas Social Media Awards Michelle Greer won the big prize. I was one of the 23 2nd place winners. We knew something was up when they skipped Michelle in alphabetic order and had her up last. We were high fiving and joking with her that she had won. Michelle has an awesome attitude and is really in this social media arena to help humanity with her events like the twestival.
I took my video crew there and we were able to get interviews with 20 of the 24 winners. So you’ll be seeing those here soon and on AustinLifestyles.com along with at least 200 video interviews from SXSW with the likes of Felicia Day, Zadi Diaz, Cali Lewis (another Texas social media award finalists), Louis Gray, and a lot more. We got some good stuff.
How in the world did I get on the same list as Cali Lewis? I don’t know but it’s amazing to be on a list of the “top 25 Texas Social Networkers” with her and 23 other amazing people. To whoever nominated me, thank you! It’s an honor to be on the same list as all these incredible social networkers.
The list was pared down from 125 nominees. The actual awards show where all the award winners will get *trophies* is on March 15 from 6 to 9 pm at Ballet Austin, 501 W 3rd St, with tickets going for $15.00.
It’s a great list and I’m honored to be listed on it. Michelle Greer has been really helpful to me and I hope I’ve been helpful to her. She recently had the major role in pulling off the “Twestival” that raised 10 grand for world water causes. I had teh privilege of interviewing Cali Lewis as she breezed in and out of last year’s SXSW. Below is that interview with Cali.
Michael Cote made the list, he really was the person that got me going on twitter and his “DrunkandRetired” podcast rocks, it’s the best podcast coming out of Austin, Texas. Erica O’Grady is super, she really did an awesome job at the recent Mashable event in Austin and the Camp connected with it. Last summer I got to co-moderate a session with Connie Reece at the SEMforSMB conference and did an hour long video with her on Youtube and all over with her on social networking. Lani Rosales has given me a lot of great advice and she’s a riot. I hope to get to know all the other award winners better, they’re an awesome group of people.
AUSTIN, Texas (Feb 11, 2009) — OrgSync, Inc (OrgSync.com) is excited to announce its successful campaign to raise $1500 for Charity: Water using social media. On Tuesday, February 3, 2009, OrgSync’s team launched a social media campaign to raise awareness for the importance of clean, safe drinking water around the world. The team of 25 employees used Twitter, Facebook Newsfeeds and their company blog to rally the public behind the cause. OrgSync’s goal was to raise $1500 to donate to Charity: Water during the Austin Twestival event on February 12. Michelle Greer, well known Austin media figure and coordinator for Austin Twestival, says “Big problems like the lack of clean drinking water won’t get solved over night by the few. They will get solved by the many donating in bits and pieces towards a common goal. OrgSync pooled their resources and ended up being one of our top sponsors and I hope more companies follow this approach towards charitable giving.”
Over 175 cities around the world will be uniting on Thursday, February 12, 2009 to increase awareness and raise money for those in need of clean, safe drinking water. “This is a great cause and an opportunity to unite our Austin community with cities across the world to create social good. As a leader I am passionate about leveraging my understanding of social media to help create awareness and provide people the opportunity to give back,” said Fortenberry.
The OrgSync team was successful at meeting its goal of raising $1566 in 24 hours and is excited to contribute 100% of it to Charity: Water. Andrew Katz, Director of Community Relations feels, “It’s very important for our team to give back and get involved in the Austin Community. We feel that by being visibly active in the community, we can be positive role models for our students and clients to do the same!” OrgSync’s successful campaign proves how important online communication and networking is for increasing awareness and uniting individuals for a greater good.
About OrgSync OrgSync is a co-curricular management tool that helps colleges and universities communicate more effectively across their entire campus. OrgSync offers a hosted service that provides the tools needed by campuses to easily organize, assess, track, and manage students and student organizations. OrgSync is currently helping over 100 campuses manage their student co-curricular management, leadership development and communication needs. OrgSync is headquartered in Austin, TX with satellite offices in Dallas, TX, Miami, FL, and Tucson, AZ. For more information about OrgSync, visit OrgSync.com. To schedule an interview with CEO Eric Fortenberry, contact Nicole Andreas at (512) 238-8534 or nicole@orgsync.com.
More discussion with Dr DD Faye about the twestival.com on Feb 12 in Austin and around the world. One in six people worldwide lack adequate drinking water – 1.1 billion people – and twestival.com and Dr Faye are both part of the solution to providing clean drinking water to the world’s population.
By rallying together globally, under short timescales, for a single aim on the same day, the Twestival hopes to bring awareness to the global water crisis. Live Earth is the global video partner for Twestival events occuring next Thursday, February 12 in more than 185 cities worldwide to benefit charity: water. Scott Harrison of charity: water discusses Twestival below:
Click here for more on charity: water. For an entertaining, in-depth explanation of Twestival, watch the slideshow below:
Here’s the schedule of events for Twestival 2009 at Ace’s in Austin, TX on Feb 12 8:00 Meet and mingle 8:50 A word from sponsors 9:00 Twestival Sumo Smackdown (see video below) 10:00 Presentation by Glimmer of Hope, a non-profit that drills wells in Africa 10:45 Performance by T-Bird and the Breaks, one of Austin’s most highly regarded up-and-coming bands. This 11 piece band won accolades from both ACL’s “Sound and the Jury” Awards as well as the Austin Music Awards. They’ve sold out their past two shows and just released a new album. See video below.
A donation of just $10 can provide someone in Africa clean drinking water for 12 years. Collectively, we can initiate substantial change for developing nations. Here are are a variety of ways you can make this happen:
Twestival is going to be held around the world on Thursday, March 12. It is the biggest twitter festival ever and has been set up to support the billion plus people in the world without clean drinking water. It’s a fundamental cause that needs your support. The Austin event will be at Ace’s on 6th Street at 8 pm on March 12.
Twestival resources are downloadable below, for the media and websites to spread the word about the event and charity: water, where all proceeds are being donated.
Please use the tag #twestival in blogs and other social media, so we can find your posts more easily, which will be tracked on Delicious – head here to see the latest coverage and what global sources are saying
are the places to find rockband video with Veronica Belmont, Leah Culver, Casey Mckinnon and Bonnie Pierzina. It’s had the most play on youtube so far with over 2,400 views.
Casey McKinnon is an actress, producer and writer who was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She has worked and appeared on three popular internet TV shows: Galacticast; A Comicbook Orange and Kitkast.Her work has been documented in The Hollywood Reporter, BBC News, Rolling Stone Magazine and The Guardian, among others. Her work on Galacticast has also garnered five Vloggie awards and three Parsec nominations.
McKinnon graduated from McGill University in East Asian Studies and worked as a diplomat’s assistant before founding new media production company 8Bit Brownies Inc. in November 2006 with her partner Rudy Jahchan. In addition to producing shows, she has also written articles on web video for the Guardian Unlimited.
This is the video I made at Cedar Street Courtyard. It took a while for the all girl band to get beyond technical difficulties with the Xbox and RockBand but once they did, they soared!
Lindsay Campbell did hundreds of episodes of the insanely popular Wallstrip and is now doing something totally new and different, a show about news and politics. We luckily catch her in an interview on day 1 of SXSW. There will be blog is Lindsay’s clip from sxsw which includes two cuts of austincasts Paul Terry Walhus talking about Matt Mullenwegg and “wholesome, family podcasts”. “MobLogic shamelessly pimps fellow bloggers in a pathetically transparent attempt to promote itself” it says on moblogic.tv’s episode page.
Veronica Belmont recently left CNET to join Jason Calacanis Mahalo Daily. She talks about some of her new shows and how she loves being in Austin (she doesn’t give too much away). She made the rounds of the trade show with her shooter. She made the scene at the 16bit party.
She is in a live rock band performance at the tumblr party. Leah Culver is on bass and Casey Mackinnon (Galacticast) is on vocals. Her blog is veronicabelmont.com
Casey McKinnon has assembled a super group of female talent to rock SXSW this year!
We got to interview the great Cali Lewis of GeekBrief.tv today and it may be the highlight of our SXSW. It will be hard to top in the next three days. Cali talks about how she got started in video podcasting and started building web sites at age 14. She discusses her “big trip” to 50 states in 50 weeks and I kid her about getting a Greyhound Scenicruiser on ebay. Like ijustine she is very hot on qik running on her Nokia N95 cell phone.
One of the brightest stars in tech podcasting, Zadi Diaz plays drums in a rock band competition at SXSW at the Cedar Street Courtyard on 4th Street in Austin, Texas.She was on the panel at SXSW called “Quit your day job and vblog”
This is the interview within an interview… inside the interview I did with ijustine is this interview done by Sherry Smith of the Hope Show. A veritable AustinCast – Hope Show – Austincast sandwich.
CC Chapman was wondering what to do with a few minutes between panels and parties at SXSW so I collared this podcast pioneer and got his impressions of the state of podcasting, SXSW and life at the San Francisco podcasting startup where he works. View the video interview here.
Techs brightest stars rock out at SXSW, watch this now. This should be subtitled “I fought the Xbox and the Xbox won”. After countless delays and xbox 360 misfires and recalibrations, the all star hottest and brightest women in tech band took the stage and rocked out to “I Fought the Law” at the Cedar Steet bar on 4th street in Austin.Meet her band … her new Rock Band
recommended: click on “full” to watch the above video, it’s designed to be big. Rachel Smith – New Media Consortium from Paul Walhus on Vimeo.Rachel S. Smith, living in Sonoma County, CA is the Vice President of New Media Consortium (NMC), Austin, Texas, an international consortium of more than 250 universities, colleges, museums, research centers, and technology companies. In this interview by austincast.com she talks about her first trip to the SXSW Conference in Austin, Texas, March 2008. She talks about Jane McGonigle (educational gaming being a big interest of hers), twitter, facebook, flickr, del.icio.us and diigo among other topics. And she talks about the conferences and events put on by the NMC.The Rachel Smith interview is also available on Itunes.
At SXSW, CC Chapman, and a panel on how to keep pumped up about SXSW are featured in the above and below videos. CC Chapman is a pioneer of podcasting and his current project is AdvanceGuard. Carla Borsoi is currently VP, Research & Analytics at Ask.com, leading a team dedicated to serving both the needs of the customer and the business, helping to make finely nuanced decisions to provide the best user experience within the need to achieve key business metrics. Kevin Smokler is a writer, entrepreneur, speaker and consultant based in San Francisco. He’s been tapping out thoughts online since 2001 (rss feed). Here’s the easiest way to get in touch with him. David Dylan Thomas delivers content to five different publications, not including his own blog: Filmcritic.com, Freewilliamsburg.com, Bigyawn.net, PAW Print, and Blogcritics.org. Today, Thomas continues to live, write, and film in Philadelphia. By day, he’s also the Coordinator of Multimedia Services at La Salle University. And Margo Grace, the “walk on” is an Austin, Texas designer and up and coming social networker.
In part 2 of our 4 part series, Robert Scoble treats a busload of SXSW folks to barbecue at the famed Hill Country Salt Lick restaurant near Wimberly, Texas. It’s an interesting assortment of webcelebs including Justin Ezarik “ijustine”, Irina Slutsky, Tim Ferris (“four hour workweek”), and others.
Aaron Marcus is President of Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A). He was the first graphic designer involved with computer graphics in 1967. His firm has designed user interfaces and information visualization of desktop, mobile, and Web applications for 25 years. He lectures around the world, emphasizing cross-cultural communication.
Scroll down the blog to see my video of Zadi doing a mean drum roll at SXSW at the Cedar Street Courtyard. And don’t miss Zadi and Steve Woolf’s awesome mix epicfu site with a bunch of videos by springnet (wonder who that could be?)
Zadi Diaz is interviewing stars, musicians and interactive panelists at SXSW.
A couple of weeks ago an EPIC-FU episode was featured on the home page of YouTube thanks to the generous selection of their editors. Zadi expected to get a nice amount of views, but never expected the episode to move past 3 million views when all was said and done. In fact, the episode is still compiling about 10-20,000 views per day as of the time of this writing.
Paul Terry Walhus of austincast.com has a talk with Austin Aaron, Cesar Torres and other folks at the Innotech 2008 Convention in downtown Austin, on Thursday, October 16, 2008.
editors note - I turned this two track recording in to a one track job. So you can’t hear the interviewer but you can hear Willo throughout. Willo has agreed to a re-interview but in the meantime I think you’ll enjoy this one. – ptw
Willo O’Brien is an independent contractor, based in San Francisco, offering Custom Illustration and Web/Flash/Graphic Design. Austincast.com talks to her about her fab “tees”, social networking, how to get the most out of twitter, and flips through her photos of sxsw on flickr. Hear her answer to my query that Austin is “Bay Area rejects”; and lots of other surprises.
GeekAustin had their 8th annual party at Union Park on 6th street on Sept 30, 2008. Kimberlie Dykeman and Paul Terry Walhus did about a dozen interviews with people. Silona talks about her Transparent Federal Budget (very timely), and other interviewees included Rob Wheeler the film maker, Julie Gomoll the coworker startup, AustinAaron the realtor, Joel Hoskins, Mauricio Pena, Joe Holland, John West, Chris Lamprecht with indeed.com the job search site, and Blake Freeburg.
Thanks Ali on CNN for reading springnet on twitter’s (Paul Terry Walhus) comment on high interest mortgages and showing the tweet on CNN! Poppy Harlow answered the question or rather said they’d know more on Monday about the impact of the new economic plan on folks with high interest rate mortgages. It’s only a 60 second clip, so check it out.
The idea behind OneWebDay is to encourage people to think of themselves as responsible for the internet, and to take good and visible actions on Sept. 22 that (1) celebrate the positive impact of the internet on the world and (2) shed light on the problems of access and information flow.
OneWebDay is a global, decentralized event. We’re encouraging people around the world to meet up on Sept. 22 to talk about the threats to the net and how the web could change lives around the world in the future.
Our Austin event features a day-long extended uber-Jelly, featured speakers and interviews about how the Web has changed lives. In addition to our speakers (list developing) we’ll be asking attendees:
how the web has changed your life
how you’d like the web to change the world in the future
your favorite online event ever
something you’ve done online with other people in other countries
and posting our clips on YouTube, Blip.tv and dotSub.com as part of a global video mashup.
Why social media? Giovanni talks about tradtional PR and creating buzz and then goes beyond this in to the relating SEO to social media. Social media is about engaging and (gasp) talking to people online which might lead to actual real world interactions with people. Gio uses his own company, Viewzi, as the case study. He shows a video of Viewzi Girl, who has gone viral on youtube and developed a big following.
@giovanni on twitter, along with @springnet came out of the “no follow” zone a few days ago. For some reason twitter blocked these users and others for no apparent reason and then they suddenly, inexplicably got reinstated. The twitter twilight zone < play appropriate twilight zone theme music here> works in strange ways.
On 1/1/9 yelp.com had a party at the Copa on 3rd and Congress, Austin, TX. Free drinks (Treaty Oak rum and vodka), free Sugar Mama’s cupcakes, pinataq, cigar rolling and salsa lessons.
I would have done interviews but it was very noisy and I didn’t really have a video crew (was hoping Kelly Cree and/or Jessica Mullen would have shown up); next time I’ll round up one in advance.
Speaking of video crews, I’m trying to put one together for South by Southwest (sxsw) in Austin for March 13-24 and if you’re a talented videographer, interviewer or video editor, please get in touch with terry@spring.net and I’ll see about getting you set up as a volunteer on our crew.
Giovanni Gallucci talked at the SEO / SEM / PPC meetup event in Austin, TX on Sept. 3, 2008. Laura Alter was the organizer. Giovanni’s talk was about how to turn social media in to big media and he rolls out an interesting case study involving Austinite Will Hurley or “whurley”. This is an eleven part series on the following video sharing sites:
SummerMash Social Media Camp in Austin, Texas on July 31, 2008 at the Thistle Cafe on Sixth Street. Participants compete to create the most innovative startup based on a random mash up of words thrown out by the audience on to a whiteboard. Video by AustinCast.com and Spring.net
“Laid back”. That’s how Mashable top dog Pete Cashmore described Austin, Texas in an interview with AustinLifestyles at the Summermash party at Buffalo Billiards in the heart of Austin’s 6th Street live music district. Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins of Mashable described Austin as “comfortable and intimate, you had no problems striking up a conversation.”
Here’s the list with a few excerpts from the blog entry at Mashable:
Austin 3.0 – A website designed to give the “younger Austin Geek a place to see what is going on in Austin.”
Austin Startup – Austin Startup is simply a news site that chronicles the goings ons and creation of new tech sector business in the Austin area.
AustinCast – This site is a frequently updated hub for video and audio interviews of local area movers and shakers in the technology scene. He’s published over 100 video interviews with the likes of Veronica Belmont, Pete Cashmore, Zadi Diaz, Cali Lewis, Lindsay Campbell, and Leah Culver as well as a number of local heroes to the Austin scene.
Austin360 – This is the official New Media offering from Austin’s reigning Old Media institution, the Austin-American Statesman.
GeekAustin – Probably one of Austin’s oldest tech blogs, LinearB’ and Orion have been chronicling the gaming, business and tech communities of Austin since 2000.
Michelle’s Blog - . . . she’s a very active leader and figurehead to the new, young Austin Tech community, and has her hands in just about everything. Her personal blog reflects all the myriad of ventures she’s involved in there.
Josh Dilworth – Josh is over at PR group Porter Novelli, based in their Austin office. Amongst all his many work related projects like SXSW, he has quite visible presence amongst those in the online Semantic and AI community as well as an avid participant in a number of widely used social media tools. I was recently a guest on a podcast of his, Falken’s Maze.
John Erik Metcalf- John Erik Metcalf is a major figure in the Austin scene as well, as he’s a co-founder in one of the town’s two co-working spaces: Conjunctured
Social Media Club Austin – The site describes itself as “part think tank, part curiosity, all new media” and is a repository for all that is going on in the “business networking event” scene for the Austin area.
Some Assembly Required – a self-described “business development and networking blog” authored by Thom Singer.
The Jeff Beckham Weblog – Jeff is an Austin area blogger who focuses his posts on the evolution of media, specifically in relationship to how the Internet is forcing transformation on not just media industries but “the word itself.”
Door64 Blog – The blog for Door64, the forum and community portal for the Austin-area tech community.
If you an Austin area blogger and want to be added to the OPML file email Mark at Mashable to be included in the next version of the list.
Mashable Summermash Social Media Camp one hour video of the first installment of several by http://austincast.com/blog/ This event was on 6th Street at the Thistle Cafe and was put on by Pete Cashmore and Mashable. There are four more hour segments to go and an hour segment of the Mashable party at Buffalo Billiards.
Pete Cashmore, Will Pate, whurley and a host of Austin’s most amazing bloggers and new media people converge on Buffalo Billiards for a big party with open bar. Shades of the best SXSW parties! Austincast.com was there to interview folks and document the proceedings. This is a one hour video with many interviews with Austin bloggers and social media people.
Austincast.com interviewed Will Pate at the Summermash party put on by Mashable at Buffalo Billiards on the night of Wednesday, July 30 in Austin, Texas. I’m a big fan of CommandN so it was a treat to get to interview Will and there’s even a surprise guest appearance in the interview. Will Pate, it turns out, is much more than just the pretty face on CommandN, he’s quite the entrepreneur and venturer. His Raincity Studios is a big player and he’s about to take the wraps off something pretty cool which he can’t talk about yet. And how did I get Will to flash the hookem Horns sign, play the video!
AustinCast.com did over 30 interviews at Mashable’s Summermash Austin 2008 and videotaped the *entire* Mashable Social Media Camp with whurley, Connie Reece, Scott Allen, and a host of awesome people. We’ll be releasing this over the next couple of weeks. So if you didn’t make it to the Camp, you can make it now. Because we’re going to bring you the whole enchilada. We’ll be dishing it out in 4 one hour installments and a whole bunch of episodes.
You will also be able to get the Will Pate interview on your iphone, ipod or mp3 player if you go to the Itunes store and search for AustinCast.com. Subscribe, it’s painless.
We talked to Deanna Zandt of Alternet.org and HightowerLowdown.com at the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, TX on July 19, 2008. She’s a blogger, organizer, event producer (she put on one killer of a party for Hightower at Netroots), and techie.
Deanna Zandt is a media technologist and consultant to key progressive media organizations including AlterNet and the Hightower Lowdown, and hosts TechGrrl Tips on GRITtv with Laura Flanders. She works with groups to create and implement effective web strategies toward organizational goals of civic engagement and empowerment, and uses her background in linguistics, advertising, telecommunications and finance to complement her technical expertise. Deanna also works with New York-based independent artists such as John S. Hall/King Missile, Surf Reality and the Art Stars to promote radical performances in downtown Manhattan, and is a member of the Brooklyn-based Not An Alternative political art collective.
Tamar Weinberg spent nearly an hour talking with Paul Terry Walhus about social media marketing and social networking. The interview is a screencast with video of Tamar speaking and screenshots of the social networks that she is discussing. Tamar blogs with Techipedia, her own site, as well as Mashable, Lifehacker and numerous other major social media blogs and websites.
The bloggers using their service seem to be making a decent income “The average blogger makes $30 $50 a month selling Blogads, with some pulling up to more than $5000 monthly. As advertiser appreciation rises, your yield should rise. Blogads receives 30% of your ad fee, unlike other networks that charge far more or won’t even tell what they take.”
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Video SEO for SMB?s: What Does Standing Out Online Really Mean? – consumers typically visit an average of nearly five Web sites (4.8 actually) before deciding which attorney to select. When lawyers added video to their respective Web sites, however, this number decreased fairly substantially, to 1.8.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – seo blog aggregation. Guy Kawasaki’s alltop seo page. SEOmoz, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Roundtable, SEO Book, Search Engine Journal, Matt Cutts, SEO Noobs, Google News Inside, SEO Blackhat, SEO by the Sea, Search Engine Watch, Stepforth SEO, etc
Starting today, I’m going to start a series of reviews, accompanied by screencasts, of reviews of social networks, social bookmarking services and social media sites on the Spring. You can see my initial list there which I’ll be modifying as this series goes along.
Listal is a social networking site where you can find people who share your tastes in movies, books, music or games. Lists and collections are shared via a simple url like (in my case) http://springnet.listal.com and they give you widgets to plug in to your blog or website.
The site stands out for it’s tight integration of tagging, friends, finding others, forums and messaging. The “explore” feature is hot, it lets you scan through reviews of movies, tv shows, books, games, dvds, and music.
And just now I was listening to net@nite live with Leo Laporte and Amber Macarthur and they had the disqus guy on for a long time talking about how great this app is so I turned on the plugin. It was easy. Naturally, it’s a wordpress plugin and they’re all easy. It ties the comments on your blog in to a community.
So all I need now (hint), is a few comments. It makes me want to post more interesting stuff now just so I can get comments. Feel free to comment on some earlier posts on this blog
Today starts a four part series on Robert Scoble’s Salt Lick party at SXSW. The Salt Lick just might be the best bbq in Central Texas, maybe all of Texas. Robert rented a big tourbus and carried everyone on the 30 mike trek to the Salt Lick and then back down town to a round of parties at SXSW. See what digerati you can spot in this video (hint, lifecast, 4 hour work week, interview limo).
First, I’m working on an hour long instructional video about how to push your video to all the video services with just a few clicks. I’ve got a short preview version that I’ll be pushing to austincast in the next 24 hours. Here are the video communities that I show you how to publish to with a few clicks: youtube, yahoo video, myspace video, metacafe, google video, revver, dailymotion, blip.tv, veoh, crackle, stupidvideos, sclipo, viddler and more.
Second, amazon has started inserting overlay commercials in their ads and I thought I’d take my Lindsay Campbell moblogic.tv video and insert something appropriate. Take it for a test spin and, love it or hate it, get a glimpse of the future of video advertising.
I went to the “Red” booth and asked them if we could do a 15 second podcast using their incredible camera. The idea behind the RED camera system is simple. Design and build a high performance digital cine camera with the quality of 35mm film and convenience of pure digital. RED delivers unmatched image quality with no recording system limitations. It’s about $17 grand. Watch the video below.
SXSW Breakout App of 2008: What Will it Be? – ReadWriteWeb – SXSW extravaganza in Austin has been an application king maker for the last two years at least; Google’s Dodgeball blew up there in 2006 and Twitter went from elite-chic to massively popular there in 2007. Who’s it going to be in 2008?
The Social – CNET News.com – Caroline McCarthy’s sxsw blog . . . see also my video of Caroline performing as a rock star at Austin’s Cedar Street Courtyard along with Leah Culver, Zadi Diaz, Veronica Belmont and Casey Mckinnon
We caught up with videoblogger Phil Campbell and his friend Christian on Thursday. They were holed up at their friend Kitty’s digs in Wylie, Texas about 3 hours north of Austin. Phil is involved with Seesmic and has developed “qik” – a video blogging and publishing system. His excellent domain name is http://me.dm – clever to say the least. We’ve promised each other to do cross interviews at South by as Phil will be interviewing and videoblogging as well.
Voodoo! Chris Schultz is an entrepreneur, blogger, and consultant based in New Orleans (yep, he’s still there). Voodoo Ventures is an internet incubator and home to his startups and consulting gigs. He partners with a Russian group of developers in a venture called FlatSourcing.
Paul Mooney is known for his blog http://dotnetjunkies.com and he’s a big advocate for Bar Camp Austin. From his blog:
Just a few days to pack your bags, charge your batteries and catch a plane to Austin’s SXSW Interactive and the annual DIY encampment – BarCampAustin III
Barcamp Austin is a web developer’s unconference open to all. It’s happening March 7th and 8th ten blocks from the concurrent SXSW Interactive. Check-out the Sessions and Schedule
RSVP for BarCampAustin3 on Upcoming or add your name to the Wiki. Last year we had a good time, with great sessions and it was a nice gesture when the Microsoft IE Team paid the bar bill.
Alexander Muse dispenses invaluable information for startups on his http://texasstartupblog.com and he talks about what makes startups and vc’s tick in this audio podcast.
TipLine – Gates’ Computer Tips – Each day during the school year I try to send out a computer tip or two. It’s usually a website, but sometimes it’s a news item or an Excel tip, etc. You can also find the archive of my tips going back to May of 2005. Please leave a comment to let me know
WP Themes at ElegantDirectory.com – WP themes and related resources. – A new Word Press theme has been launched recently, made free by Elegant Directory & AllinfoDir Web Directory. Theme has been called as Trendy; highlighting property of this theme is its decent and elegant look with 3 columns view and with integrated Adsen
45+ Must See WordPress themes – This is the second article in the four-part series, “Powerful guide to master Your WordPress”. We are taking a look at some quality outstanding Free and premium WordPress themes, which have been released over the last few months.
These are my links for March 18th through March 19th:
Ping.fm | Home – Ping.fm is a simple service that cuts out the middle man when it comes to posting to your social services such as Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr and Pownce with more being added soon.
Austin | groups.drupal.org – Welcome to the Austin Drupal Users Group! Our goal is to help each other, make new friends, pass along referrals, and learn new and interesting things about Drupal that will ensure our web sites are what we want them to be. Be sure to introduce yourself t
NoodleScar.com – Bonny – or is it Bonnie – Pierzina played drums in the rock band performance with Veronica Belmont, Casey Mckinnon, and Leah Culver at Cedar Street Courtyard on 4th street, Austin, TX. Video at http://austincast.com/blog/
editors note - I turned this two track recording in to a one track job. So you can’t hear the interviewer but you can hear Willo throughout. Willo has agreed to a re-interview but in the meantime I think you’ll enjoy this one. – ptw 
NetRootsNation Video Podcasts – Austin, July 2008
NetrootsNation video podcasts
Interviews Set 1
Interviews Set 2
Interviews Set 3
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