Hey guys, it’s everyone’s favorite software developer at the Junos - that’s right, it’s me, Duane Storey. First, I want to thank both John and Rebecca for all their support in the last few weeks. While I am at the Junos alone right now, shooting photos, taking movies, I am not by myself - [...]

No, Michael will not be liveblogging his own session but Raul has been gracious enough to share his liveblogging efforts with Miss604.com since I am unable to attend the event this evening. Check back now and then for updates to this post. Thanks Raul!
Rebecca and I have agreed that I’ll send her the code after [...]

The following was researched, contributed and written by Raul
Given what I research on my day job, it is also ironic (or coincidental, perhaps) that I now live in an area that used to be industrial and is now being transformed into a residential zone (while attempting to preserve the historical industrial heritage).
With the upcoming 2010 [...]

Contributed by John Biehler
Once again, SXSW Interactive dropped a huge pile of swag on all attendees.
The first year I attended, I ended up having to get an additional bag for all the goodies on the way home. Where possible, I brought extra swag for coworkers that didn’t make it to the conference and it was [...]

Contributed by Colleen of Shot Heard Round the Web
By now, if you pay attention to the tech news at all, you’ll have heard about the absolute train wreck the Mark Zuckerberg keynote was at South by Southwest. I’m not chiming in with anything particularly new I don’t think, but I did want to offer up [...]

Contributed by Colleen of Shot Heard Round the Web
Austin is fabulous. I officially love this city.
Photo Credit: Chris Heuer on Flickr
This is my first SxSW experience and it’s nothing at all like i expected. I stopped going to the panels after my first two (tho I did make an exception for Blame Canada…) and hung [...]

Contributed by Colleen of Haute Culture
I completely started a trend at SouthBy this year. I didn’t mean to, it just happened!
We were headed to the Red Eyed Fly for the Fray Cafe Sunday evening. Walked past this fabulous tattoo parlor and decided just to go check it out. Called True Blue Tattoo, it had a [...]

The following has been adapted from actual correspondences
I arrived on the 14th, flying from Hamburg to Stuttgart. Hamburg is a very fine city that has a dynamic blend of old buildings and startling modern architecture. They have an immense construction project at the harbour that is similar to the Expo lands development.
People are friendly, as [...]

In an effort to get a more “global” recap of the Northern Voice experience I have invited Jennie Roth of 37Roses to write up this guest post.
Coming back home to Pittsburgh I almost feel like a little kid giving a really excited and nearly hyperventilating speech about what I did at summer camp.

I’ve been a [...]

The following is a guest post, contributed by Keith
So much in today’s world needs to be justified with numbers showing us that there is a quantifiable value for every decision. When a company spends money, more often than not they want to know how spending that money will make them more money. This [...]