A collection of posts from my fifth year at South By Southwest as posted at the Social Studies blog. Be sure to come find me! SXSW: Unleashing Employees: Empower Innovation from the Ground Up SXSW: How Farmers Get Serious Business Done With Mobile SXSW: Demystifying Online Privacy and Empowering the[...]
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March 10th, 2011 - 3:40 pm § in SXSW
I’m at SXSW – are you?
Let’s meet up. This is what I look like (on a moderate to good day). Locate me in the meat space via the Twitter machine, FourSquare, Facebook or Yobongo. Or just stand on Sixth Street and yell “PERFECT PORRIDGE ROCKS!!” and see if anyone looks up. I’ve pretty much given up o[...]
Peavey’s JamParty game will redefine your relationship with the plastic guitar
I had the opportunity to demo the new JamParty game last week, in part thanks to my friend, professional musician Chris Heille who is working on the project. Part game, part creative sandbox, Peavey’s new JamParty is poised to redefine your relationship with plastic guitars forever. Really. In[...]
February 16th, 2011 - 8:08 am § in Music - News, SXSW
Better Than the Van Redefines Couch Surfing
Better Than the Van, whom we told you about back in 2008, have revamped their site just in time for all those bands headed cross country to SXSW. Bands Can: - Find free places to stay on tour - Search and connect with other bands touring to the same cities or towns - Directly connect [...][...]
August 24th, 2010 - 8:53 pm § in SXSW
Vote for Perfect Porridge’s SXSW Panels (voting closes Friday at noon)
I’ve been music blogging for more than six years. In that time I went from begging major labels to send me advances and helping organize scrappy street teams to begging major labels to stop spamming me and watching bands use street teams to post fake comments. Since my day job involves social [...]
SXSWORLD Magazine featuring Perfect Porridge and friends
I finally got my grubby hands on a copy of the March Music issue of SXSWORLD Magazine. It features my article on music blogs based on The State of Music Blogs in 2010 SXSW panel and borrows heavily from my 20 part interview series on the subject. You guys were all super smart, so I [...][...]
SXSW: State of Music Blogs in 2010, Part 20
This is an interview series in preparation for my SXSW Panel: The State of Music Blogs in 2010. I reached out to a number of influencers, musicans, labels, marketers and music fans to get their perspectives on the topic and will be posting these in a series leading up to the conference. Today we hea[...]
SXSW: State of Music Blogs in 2010, Part 18
This is an interview series in preparation for my SXSW Panel: The State of Music Blogs in 2010. I reached out to a number of influencers, musicans, labels, marketers and music fans to get their perspectives on the topic and will be posting these in a series leading up to the conference. Today we hea[...]
SXSW: State of Music Blogs in 2010, Part 17
This is an interview series in preparation for my SXSW Panel: The State of Music Blogs in 2010. I reached out to a number of influencers, musicans, labels, marketers and music fans to get their perspectives on the topic and will be posting these in a series leading up to the conference. Today we hea[...]
