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Saw this on The Guardian U.K. from Pete Cashmore on Mashable. Hilarious! And also, true.
The Lemurs
7On Sunday night, Chow.com, Webshots and Consumating had a party at the Mohawk. It was unbelievably crowded (and intensified by the fact that it was thunderstorming, and so the outdoor sections weren’t being used) but the bands that I saw play there were awesome. One of those bands were The Lemurs, and Jesse and I talked to them a little bit after their set about being an unsigned band and how the Internet has made it possible for them to promote themselves.
The other band that I saw was called What Made Milwaukee Famous, and they were phenomenal. I’ve seen so many good bands since I’ve been here, I don’t even know where to start! Yesterday I hung out with Kurt Woolf from Download.com, and we were to a few different venues on 6th Street. We saw a band called Office (I saw James Iha in the crowd and I totally freaked out), and then we went to go see The Silos play down the street.
Later, I met up with Cameron, Tantek, Ryan K. and Sarah, and we headed over to Zona Rosa for another show. The Pipettes were playing when we got there, and I think we all fell in love with them a little. Go check out their site, and you’ll see why. Then as we were getting a drink, I heard that The Rapture were playing next, who I love! That was a nice surprise.
OK, gotta head back downtown. More later.
CNET TV Report Day One
CNET TV Report Day Two
LonelyGirl15 Interview
SXSW Day One
16Well, I made it to SXSW in one piece (the traveling part always makes me nervous…) and so far it’s been absolutely insane. Where do I even begin?
First off, when Chris (my producer) and I got to the hotel (which is about 5 miles away from downtown) I realized with total horror that my Internet wasn’t working! We were running late for dinner with Tom and some of his TechTV friends, but yet I refused to leave my room until their IT people got me online. Finally, it was running. Then we took off for 6th Street, which is where all the bars and venues are located. I’ve never seen so many bars on one street! We shot some video, and then ran into Nicole Lee. She was heading to dinner with Jesse (from Webshots) Ted R, Molly Golightly, and some other folks. Basically, you can’t turn a corner without running into someone you know.
The Ze Frank performance was that night, about a 20 minute walk from where we were at the moment. Chris and I drove down there, only to be turned away at the door because I hadn’t yet received my SXSW badge. WTF! But it was all ok, because I returned to Jesse and friends to head over to the 8-bit party. This was probably one of the most fun parties I’ve been to in a really long time… here’s photographic evidence:
I’m making a little video clip of the trip so far, so hopefully that’ll be up soon. Gotta hurry though, because it’s almost time for the Web Awards. More later!
Second Life
235 years ago
There are a lot of really intelligent and influential people in the world that love Second Life. It’s important enough that News.com writes about it all the time, and magazines write cover stories on people making their fortunes inside of it.
I think it’s boring.
The idea is really great. The implementation? Not so much. As someone who spends a considerable amount of time in a virtual world, I don’t understand how anyone could use an interface that is so poorly constructed. Is it much worse for me because I’m on a Mac? Is it really supposed to look like someone’s idea of what virtual reality should look like, if they lived in the 1980′s? And is there anything else to do other than program sexy actions and create “nude” skins for avatars?
I issue a challenge to you, SL fan – show me a good time. Maybe I’m looking in the wrong places (I’m still bitter that they didn’t make my cubicle in the CNET offices…) and so I’m missing all the fun stuff. Drop a line in the comments and tell me what your favorite (non-sexy, please) activity in Second Life is, and we’ll go on a little trip. I want to be proven wrong!