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Posts Tagged ‘sxsw2006’

Fray Cafe 6 - Tales of Immigration Officials

Min Jung convinced me to partake in her upcoming Lap-Pop event. It’s supposed to be a convergence of Asian Americans and geekery, hosted by Locus Arts. The idea is to get some Asian American bloggers/photologgers to share their writing, art, photography and/or music. The first one was excellent and featured readings from Ernie, Glenda and [...]

SXSW 2006 Overview

SXSW 2006 (Sunday)

Originally uploaded by Laughing Squid.

My third year at SxSW Interactive and again, my role has shifted. The first year, I was a Web Awards winner and SxSWi virgin. Last year, we attended as press. This year, I was both moderator (How to Make the [...]

Tag Yourself

You’ve seen conference badges at conferences and nametags at big parties. At the recent Adaptive Path party, I “tagged” myself. Ha. Ha. I’m so clever, right? I mean gee, Kevin, you’re such an original character. Well let’s see what happened. I put:KevinOK/CancelYahooComicsCanadaSkiingand then ran out of space. During the course of the night I had [...]

Conference Virgins and Conference Friends

At TED, they had a term called “TED virgin”. I can understand why they say that - it really is one of those experiences where you have to have been there to understand what it’s about. Some aspects are not unique to TED, however and the concept of a conference virgin is one of them.

Over [...]

8 Presentations in 20 Days

The month of March is looking to be slightly extremely insane. I was happy to help get some of our work at Yahoo! accepted into the IA Summit - we’re presenting a 45min session on Communicating Concepts through Comics and doing a full day workshop where we teach people to use the technique. There’s also [...]