Austin Blogging, Podcasting - music, tv, radio, sports, sxsw, over 100 interviews with SXSW attendees and more post-SXSW interviews coming! Example interviews: Casey Mckinnon, Veronica Belmont, Cali Lewis, Lindsay Campbell, and over 100 more.
I’ve been twittering for a bit. I tweeted @dvorak about his great podcasts and columns. Have you seen http://channeldvorak.com? If John get his son Arick to open source this, I’ll use it. I’m already rocking and rolling with Arick’s other open source project which has something to do with Craigslist. Sssshhh!
Lyn Bender just sent me a cryptic email about some kind of cryptic event Saturday morning. If I can talk Dot in to going to Nia Saturday morning and do the ride share thing we might have a go. It would be nice, Lynn, to have a localtion and maybe a couple of details.
Just got off the skype with rjnagy and he’s still resistant to twitter. Doesn’t he know this is futile?
We had a great wordpress meetup recently at http://conjunctured.com with Any Skelton or skeltoac everywhere.
While I am typing this I am talking to a delightful Spring rep, Josey, from the Phillipines who just set up my pda phone which I’m going to use for a backup for my iphone. She was really, really nice. I wish all support calls were like this!
I’m building a “social network” for Austin, Texas and also working on a green home site. If you want to beta test or have input on the Austin Social Network, go to http://austinlifestyles.com and sign up for the beta. If you’re actually in Austin, Texas we’re going to have some cool events coming up for our beta testers like pizza parties, basketball games, guest speakers, presentations, etc. It’s going to be a hoot!
You’ll notice another widget in the lower right column of this blog, it’s scoutle and I recommend you check it out and add me as your friend so we can compare notes. I found this in Louisvillian Tom Osborne’s profilactic mashup this morning. As far as I can tell, this came out of the Netherlands and it’s designed to be a blog community.
To quote Wicked Pretty, who has quite a following on Scoutle, “I particularly like the animated one, Scoutle. You have a little Scout (who you get to name and give a catchphrase) and he “wanders the internet” looking for people to match to your blog…I don’t really understand how it all works, so if you’re the kind . . . “
Is this the next big thing? It could get pretty big from what I’ve seen. If these guys hit it hard and listen to their community they’ve got a great start.
Here’s the description of Scoutle by the creators:
Scoutle is an automated social network for bloggers and functions as an ideal Guide for internet users to find a valuable blog, no matter the language, subject or location.
Scoutle helps you find, promote and connect blogs using an automated rating and matching system. Not only find a blog easily, but also know what a blog is worth and discover similar blogs. Scoutle searches, matches, validates and values… You only need to find a blog or as a user, make sure your blog is and keeps interesting.
Op-Ed Columnist - How to Fix a Flat - NYTimes.com - Any car company that gets taxpayer money must demonstrate a plan for transforming every vehicle in its fleet to a hybrid-electric engine with flex-fuel capability, so its entire fleet can also run on next generation cellulosic ethanol.
Being Peter Kim: A List of Social Media Marketing Examples - applying game mechanics to understand participation, thinking about users vs. customers, and deconstructing ego traps in PR campaigns. This analysis makes me wonder if social media marketing matters and if so, does it scale.
Paul Terry Walhus of austincast.com has a talk with Austin Aaron, Cesar Torres and other folks at the Innotech 2008 Convention in downtown Austin, on Thursday, October 16, 2008.
These are my links for September 20th through October 9th:
Tweetmeme - 15:20 PM, October 9th, 2008 GB - less structured way to keep track of what links are buzzing on twitter categories links in to blog, image, video and audio posts
Twubble - suggests new twitter friends based on your current twitter friends
Tweet Scan - Tweet Scan is a real-time search engine for Twitter and identi.ca. Tweet Scan indexes all public messages on both services so you can find the conversations, people, and tweets/dents you want. You can search by keyword or author with results available via email(Twitter only for now), RSS, and Twhirl.
GroupTweet - GroupTweet allows Malcolm and the gang to send messages via Twitter that are instantly broadcasted privately to only the team members.
Rogue Amoeba - Nicecast: Broadcast any audio on Mac OS X - Nicecast is the easiest way to broadcast music from OS X. Broadcast to the world, or just across your house. Nicecast can help you create your own internet radio station or allow you to listen to your iTunes Music Library from anywhere in the world!
GeekAustin had their 8th annual party at Union Park on 6th street on Sept 30, 2008. Kimberlie Dykeman and Paul Terry Walhus did about a dozen interviews with people. Silona talks about her Transparent Federal Budget (very timely), and other interviewees included Rob Wheeler the film maker, Julie Gomoll the coworker startup, AustinAaron the realtor, Joel Hoskins, Mauricio Pena, Joe Holland, John West, Chris Lamprecht with indeed.com the job search site, and Blake Freeburg.
Thanks Ali on CNN for reading springnet on twitter’s (Paul Terry Walhus) comment on high interest mortgages and showing the tweet on CNN! Poppy Harlow answered the question or rather said they’d know more on Monday about the impact of the new economic plan on folks with high interest rate mortgages. It’s only a 60 second clip, so check it out.
You’ll notice another widget in the lower right column of this blog, it’s 
