Epistemographer

I’m so there on Monday:
bq. __Monday, March 28, 2005, 6pm__
“Kamui”:http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=KAMUI, a group of professional sword-fighting specialists, most recently choreographed the fight scenes for the movie Kill Bill in which they played the Crazy 88 characters.
Anyone wanna join me?
(Man, I love the “Millennium Stage”:http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/schedule.html)

_A short request, thrown out to the blogosphere:_
When I moved in with my somewhat-more-Jewishly-observant-than-I girlfriend (now fiancee), I started keeping a kosher kitchen. Needless to say, this has been quite an adjustment for a formerly bacon-frying, shrimp-barbecuing, agnostically secular Jew like myself, and I’ve decided to start a blog to chronicle my adventures as [...]

Spent the past few days mulling over the heady experience of South by Southwest Interactive…I’ve been thinking out loud to a few friends in the time since I got back on Wed. night, and I think I’ve processed enough to put some ideas down on screen. So, without further ado…
*Why was it important for me [...]

Tantek Celik Senior Technologist Technorati
Jonas M Luster
Joyce Park Tech Staff CommerceNet
Ernie Hsiung Web Developer
danah boyd Apopheniac University of California @ Berkeley

- Tantec -
What’s new here?

Is e-mail social software? IM?
Is this just groupware?

Does “why” matter?

People inexplicably putting huge amounts of personal information online
Maybe it doesn’t matter why people are [...]

So, I’m sitting in the 3rd row at the SXSW Wonkette Show, when I glance at the conference Rendezvous List (a post about which is forthcoming) and see that Ben Brown (of Austinist.com fame) has his status listed as “Does anybody have a photo of Wonkette?” I fire him a message, pull out my camera, [...]

Room scheduling has been a problem throughout SXSW, but this takes the cake:

Homestar Runner
Wired at 13
You make the call: given the makeup of the SXSW crowd, which would you have scheduled in a room several times the size of the other?

Presentation available online here…

Panel notes:

- History Unwired -

Neighborhood in Venice
Travel guide, veers into film and multimedia
Organized into “Characters” and “Paths”

Hear character steps
Video of individual characters telling stories
Some interactive elements: interior tour of a building you can’t enter in reality
“The more you explore, the more intimate it gets” – movement into people’s homes, private spaces
Building in a timer (sensitive [...]

Still more panel notes:

Jeffrey Veen (Adaptive Path)
Tantek Celik
Don Turnbull (Asst Prof, UT Austin)
Thomas Vander Wal

- Jeffrey Veen [presentation] -

Solipsism = “There’s nobody but me”

Metaphysical assumption that the self is the only definite thing in the universe
Look at filesystem interface: structured around the self’s computer
del.icio.us: tagging is about replicating filesystem conventions w/r/t online bookmarks
friendster: fundamentally not [...]

SXSW Panel Notes:

Anil Dash, Six Apart

Focus on diversity, different tools for different communities (Typepad/Movable Type/LiveJournal)
On audiences: Movable Type’s oriented towards technology/templates; Typepad is the more “populist” option; LiveJournal much more introspective/introverted, about finding “kindred spirits” and forming small, close networks

Jason Goldman, Blogger

Goal is to make blogging as fast and free as possible (transparency)
“Appeal to millions [...]