These are my links for May 12th through May 16th:

• Jennifer Slegg - Search Engine Marketing Consultant - @jenstar jennifer offers tips on SEO marketing and I’m trying to get her to return my follow on twitter
• Whatever - nominated for both Best Novel (for The Last Colony) and Best Fan Writer, which I think is pretty neat. This guy should be nominated for the best blog, if you ask me. - ptw
• NETTUTS - Web development tutorials and links - Spoonfed Web Tutorials - NETTUTS is a blog/tutorial site aimed at web designers. We run tutorials on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites. We cover HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS?s, Simpler Development Examples in PHP and Ruby on Rails, a
• NETTUTS - Web development tutorials and links - How to Build a Maintainable Site using CushyCMS and Twitter - In this tutorial we’re going to build a simple one-page site and then in less than 5 minutes, get it setup with a Twitter feed for daily updates and with CushyCMS for general content. If you haven’t seen it, Cushy is a completely free and extremely simple
• Useful Podcasts For Designers And Developers | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine - collection of podcasts that are either directly about web design, or would be helpful to a web designer
• 100+ Open Courseware Collections for Aspiring Web Devs - Web Hosting Unleashed - free tutorials and collections from top universities and well-respected websites to train you in areas like web design, graphics and imaging, programming and coding, multimedia, connecting with your audience, and even learning freelancing and entrepreneur
• Twitter Friend Adder Firefox Plugin - You will then need to login to your account find the persons friends you would like to communicate with right click on there profile and there should be an option stating ?Grab this Users Friends? hit that and the plugin should start working.
• Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing - strategy, twitter addict, cms maven, conference hopper
• Create your own crowds :: Crowdstatus.com - Crowdstatus is made up of twitter crowds, each crowd contains people and each twitter person in the crowd has a status. This means that you can see what everyones current status is in a crowd.
• TwitterFone: Send Messages to Twitter with Voice - send messages to twitter with your voice on your cell phone. Sweet.

editors note -  I turned this two track recording in to a one track job.  So you can’t hear the interviewer but you can hear Willo throughout.  Willo has agreed to a re-interview but in the meantime I think you’ll enjoy this one.  - ptw

Willo O’Brien is an independent contractor, based in San Francisco, offering Custom Illustration and Web/Flash/Graphic Design. Austincast.com talks to her about her fab “tees”, social networking, how to get the most out of twitter, and flips through her photos of sxsw on flickr. Hear her answer to my query that Austin is “Bay Area rejects”; and lots of other surprises.

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Aaron Marcus is President of Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A). He was the first graphic designer involved with computer graphics in 1967. His firm has designed user interfaces and information visualization of desktop, mobile, and Web applications for 25 years. He lectures around the world, emphasizing cross-cultural communication.

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In part 2 of our 4 part series, Robert Scoble treats a busload of SXSW folks to barbecue at the famed Hill Country Salt Lick restaurant near Wimberly, Texas. It’s an interesting assortment of webcelebs including Justin Ezarik “ijustine”, Irina Slutsky, Tim Ferris (”four hour workweek”), and others.

See the video here:

Scoble’s Salt Lick BBQ party - part 2 of 4

 

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Today starts a four part series on Robert Scoble’s Salt Lick party at SXSW. The Salt Lick just might be the best bbq in Central Texas, maybe all of Texas. Robert rented a big tourbus and carried everyone on the 30 mike trek to the Salt Lick and then back down town to a round of parties at SXSW. See what digerati you can spot in this video (hint, lifecast, 4 hour work week, interview limo).

YouTube, Yahoo, MySpace, Metacafe, Google, Revver, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Veoh, Crackle, Stupid Videos, Sclipo, Viddler and Howcast

Rachel Smith Feeds optimized for the ipod, cell phone and other devices.

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Rachel Smith - New Media Consortium from Paul Walhus on Vimeo.

recommended: click on “full” to watch the above video, it’s designed to be big. Rachel Smith - New Media Consortium from Paul Walhus on Vimeo.Rachel S. Smith, living in Sonoma County, CA is the Vice President of New Media Consortium (NMC), Austin, Texas, an international consortium of more than 250 universities, colleges, museums, research centers, and technology companies. In this interview by austincast.com she talks about her first trip to the SXSW Conference in Austin, Texas, March 2008. She talks about Jane McGonigle (educational gaming being a big interest of hers), twitter, facebook, flickr, del.icio.us and diigo among other topics. And she talks about the conferences and events put on by the NMC.The Rachel Smith interview is also available on Itunes.

 

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MySpace, Metacafe, Google, Revver, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Stupid Videos, Sclipo and Viddler - CC Chapman, and a panel on how to keep pumped up about SXSW are featured in the above and below videos.

Yahoo, MySpace, Metacafe, Google, Revver, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Veoh, Crackle, Stupid Videos, Sclipo and Viddler

are the places to find rockband video with Veronica Belmont, Leah Culver, Casey Mckinnon and Bonnie Pierzina.  It’s had the most play on youtube so far with over 2,400 views.

Scroll down the blog to see my video of Zadi doing a mean drum roll at SXSW at the Cedar Street Courtyard. And don’t miss Zadi and Steve Woolf’s awesome mix epicfu site with a bunch of videos by springnet (wonder who that could be?)

Casey McKinnon is an actress, producer and writer who was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She has worked and appeared on three popular internet TV shows: Galacticast; A Comicbook Orange and Kitkast.Her work has been documented in The Hollywood Reporter, BBC News, Rolling Stone Magazine and The Guardian, among others. Her work on Galacticast has also garnered five Vloggie awards and three Parsec nominations.

McKinnon graduated from McGill University in East Asian Studies and worked as a diplomat’s assistant before founding new media production company 8Bit Brownies Inc. in November 2006 with her partner Rudy Jahchan. In addition to producing shows, she has also written articles on web video for the Guardian Unlimited.

At sxsw this year, she has organized a girl band.

Meet her band … her new Rock Band

Vocals - Casey Mckinnon
Bass - Leah Culver
Drums - Bonny Pierzina
Guitar - Veronica Belmont

We’ll be playing at the Next New Networks/Tumblr party at SXSW (event details available on Upcoming and Facebook):

Date - Monday, March 10, 2008
Time - 9pm
Location - Cedar Street Courtyard, 208 W. 4th Street, Austin, TX 78701 (Map)

 

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