SXSW: The Adventure Begins
I finally bit the bullet this year and bought a full conference pass to South by Southwest, Austin’s long-AWESOME music, film, and tech festival. Having suffered through years of Twitter and Facebook...
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175 years ago today, the Republic of Texas formed after a five-month battle against Mexican President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna‘s despotic dissolution of the Constitution of 1824. Texas remained an...
View ArticleStation Ident: Live from Austin
“A plan never survives first contact with the enemy,” said Mike Trexler, my mentor from my days on the IED Task Force. Today, that enemy is Mobility. In my efforts to go super-mobile at SXSW in Austin,...
View ArticleThe SXSW Experience
I tried to document as many of my ongoing thoughts as I could over on my Posterous feed during SXSW, but I thought I’d take some time to try and make some coherent sense of the week-long insanity I put...
View ArticleThe SXSW Survival Guide
With SXSW 2011 freshly wrapped, it struck me that I might put together a good tip guide to the event while it was still fresh in my mind. Here’s a 10-point guide for keeping your SXSW 2012 experience...
View ArticleGuitar Porn
I have a sickness for AWESOME guitars. I love the design of a supercool Les Paul or the sleek lines of a Firebird. Gold humbuckers and brightly polished Bigsbys dazzle me. During SXSW 2011, I wandered...
View ArticleExit To Live
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the general wanderlust I get every year to escape the DC region and travel to new (or semi-trod) places and experience interesting events. Among many trips last...
View ArticleSXSW 2012 App to Watch: NewsiT
I have the privilege of working with a cool new DC startup that’s been selected to present at SXSW 2012′s HatchPitch competition. NewsiT is an app that empowers citizen journalists to document and...
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