Tag Archive for 'austin'

Fast Wonder Comic: Austin Geeks Know How to Party

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Dawn
on March 18, 2008
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Boy - normal: I HEAR THAT AUSTIN HAS AWESOME GEEK PARTIES! whurley2 - normal: HELL YES! AT AUSTINBARCAMP WE HAD A RUNAWAY BATTLEBOT THAT ATTACKED A NEARBY HOUSE & NEARLY RAN OVER SOME MSFT EMPLOYEES whurley2 - normal: AT GEEK AUSTIN HAPPY HOUR, WE CAUGHT PEOPLE GETTING NAUGHTY IN THE BATHROOM whurley2 - normal: IN AN UN-RELATED INCIDENT AT THE SAME GEEK AUSTIN, COPS ARRESTED A COUPLE OF PEOPLE. YEAH, WE HAVE KILLER GEEK PARTIES.

Don’t Miss Any Important sxsw Tweets this week!

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Dawn
on March 7, 2008
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I was a little bored sitting in the airport at 5am, so I thought that it would be fun to use Yahoo Pipes to help make sure that I didn’t miss any important sxsw tweets during my trip. I thought that other people might be interested in using it, too, so I built my Twitter Filter for sxsw using a user input field. You just enter your “with friends” Twitter feed URL, grab the RSS feed output, and put the feed in your favorite mobile RSS reader. Now you can make sure you don’t miss anything!

How it works:

  • You enter your Twitter “with friends” feed (it defaults to mine).
  • It searches the feed for these 2 keywords “sxsw” and “austin”
  • It outputs only the tweets with one of those keywords

Keep in mind that you can clone this pipe and add some extra keywords. Good candidates might be “party” or “werewolf” :-)

For those sxsw’ers on Twitter, a bunch of us are writing similar filters, so you might want to make sure you include the text or hash tag “sxsw” in your Tweets.

Related Fast Wonder blog posts:

sxsw & BarCampAustin Bound

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Dawn
on March 7, 2008
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For the next few days, I’ll be heading to sxsw and BarCampAustin. I’m trying very hard not to overplan before I get there, but I do have a few things on the agenda:

  • BarCampAustin: On Saturday, I’ll be splitting my time between sxsw and BarCampAustin. I also plan to lead some kind of session about Community Management during BarCamp. After we build the agenda, I’ll tweet the time for anyone interested in joining me in the discussion.
  • PDX Web Innovators Breakfast: Sunday morning
  • Geeks Love Bowling: On Sunday night, I’ll be sharing the lanes with a few amazing women like Erica O’Grady, Tara Hunt, and others on the “Hot Babes of Open Source” team :-)
  • Austin Werewolf: The Portland Werewolf group (we meet monthly to play here in awesome pdx) will be hosting a Monday night werewolf game. I am NOT a werewolf!

That’s it! No more plans!

If you want to get in touch at sxsw, the best way is by sending me a direct message on Twitter. While I’m not planning things, I’m definitely open to the idea of spontaneous lunches, dinners, etc.