Category: Blogging

Nice to see that the SXSWBlog is back online for the upcoming conference, although nobody’s saying much yet. Everyone seems to love the new look, inspired of course by Shiner Bock, the Official Gargle of SXSW™.

The inimitable Anil Dash comments hilariously on the revelation that Michael Jackson has allegedly fathered a third child named after himself. Go. Read. Laugh.

Congratulations to pb and skp, who are engaged! Will skp become skb or skp-b?

Blog Meetup appears to be a bit of a scam. “Venue voting” began today, and the three choices were suggested by no one in my local area. Reading the site, it tells me that “The MEETUP Venue Team hand-picked 11,409 venues worldwide.” More like, they solicited ad revenue from a bunch of restaurants in each municipality and are drumming up business for them. If that’s what’s going on, it really sucks. (UPDATE: Please read the comments…)

Imagine the thrill of hearing my voice on CBC Radio today! Toronto blogger Katherine Parrish interviewed lots of people at this year’s South by Southwest Interactive conference in preparing her piece for the CBC’s Definitely Not The Opera. Katherine did an excellent job of introducing weblogs to a national audience. Along with her witty and charming commentary, and my goofy quote, there were contributions from Jeffrey Zeldman, Cameron Marlowe, Mena Trott, and Josh Benton. I’m hoping it will be archived on the DNTO page, or else someone makes an MP3 out of it. About the only negative thing about the whole story was DNTO “guest-host” Sook-Yin Lee’s loopy pronunciation of “BLAWWW-GRRRZZ”.