I'll be in Austin at the interactive slice of SxSW (Where screencasts come alive!) for a few days starting this Wednesday. Mostly I'll be wandering around with a churro in my hand, muttering, but I'll also be on a panel, moderated by Jeffrey Zeldman and featuring Erin Kissane, Lisa Holton, and Mandy Brown. It's called "New Publishing and Web Content" and it's about teaching a meerkat to drive cuddling releasing a super-plague new publishing and web content. I'm working the door.
Here's information from Jeffrey regarding the panel, and an interview with Jeffrey about, among other things, the panel. Panel! (As a side-effect of this actual in-the-flesh attendance I'm sorry to say I'm not doing six-word reviews this year. I have not the proper strength.)
I've never been to SxSW before. It surprises some people when I tell them that. It also surprises people when I cry or vomit, or get into bed with them well after all the other guests have gone home. But I've never had a job where they want to spend money to send me places to learn things. I think that's a very NYC thing; ideas and talent are supposed to come to us, preferably kneeling and begging, not the other way around. This approach is why the finance and publishing industries are enjoying such great years.
So I bought myself a ticket on a jet, and if you see me say hello. I look like this as of a few weeks ago. (Caveat: The device I use to keep my head molded into a cube shape may not be allowed by TSA rules.)
If there are any webhatchets or resentments or awkwardnesses left over from the old days, I apologize. Let's just bury those and be nice. I have nothing left in me for across-the-room awkward twinges but lots of room for niceness.