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Abstruse 3D chart shows just how much engineers dislike Sarah Lacy
When techies get mad, as they did when Sarah Lacy interviewed Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW, they Twitter furiously. When they're still seething later, it seems, they put those Twitters in a spreadsheet and analyze them. Hence, Somewhere Inc. CEO Kee Hinckley's Anatomy of a Mob, which charts the frequency of the top 50 words Twittered over the hour Lacy and Zuckerberg spoke. Hinckley's conclusion: "The Twitter transcript makes it clear that there was an early and constant stream of negative comments flowing from a large number of senders." Lacy has cited live blog coverage as evidence that the mood stayed positive until the last 15 minutes of the interview; Hinckley's analysis — though relying on Twitter — would seem to argue against that. Even so, Hinckley is sympathetic: "She didn't deserve the abuse that was dished out on Twitter, let alone what happened in the auditorium." After the jump, an annotated video showing the Twitter reaction in sync with the interview. More »
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Scoble promises to get his kid off World of Warcraft
Robert Scoble found Make Magazine's Phil Torrone at SXSW. After exchanging pleasantries, Phil made Robert promise to get his kid to do projects and get him off World of Warcraft. "Do you think the world's problems will be solved with World of Warcraft or by engineers?"
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Average SXSW partier blows a 0.097
"What are you blowing?" Wired's Megan McCarthy asked blip.tv's Charles Hope the other night, offering him the chance to take a breathalyser test. His slightly puzzling answer: "HOT." Natalie Villalobos, a community manager from the Bay area answered: "Mostly boys." McCarthy polled five others as well, who actually blew into the damn thing. Their levels ranged from sober-dober (0.00) to "heyyyyI'm in Aushtin?hokeedohkee" (0.25).
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Sarah Lacy speaks out about Zuckerberg interview
Honestly, as painful as it was, I think it's ultimately a net positive for me. All most people hear is the vocal minority. I went to four parties Sunday night, was mobbed, and no one said a bad word. I haven't even gotten a single negative email. No one sees the hundreds of notes that have poured in supporting me, saying they were there and embarrassed, or the messages I've received from other Valley CEOs telling me they enjoyed the keynote and that we all get attacked at some point in our careers. It's just part of the job. Can't take the good without the bad.Sarah Lacy shares her view on her SXSW Mark Zuckerberg interview. Hold on, let me fix that for you. "I me I I me I me." There, that's better. [I Want Media]
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Kevin Rose's parties bid SXSW goodbye
I've always loved to watch Mark Cuban dance — but Tuesday night I got to see the billionaire booty-shaker up close. The venue: PureVolume Ranch in Austin, Texas. The occasion: The Bigg Digg Shindigg, South by Southwest Interactive's closing party. "You guys always picked the worst photos of me," Cuban said. Mark, as I said at Sunday's panel on gossip, I live to serve. Digg packed PureVolume's dance floor and backyard tents with hundreds of partygoers. Besides Cuban, Moby was there, as were Digg CEO Jay Adelson and cofounder Kevin Rose, iLike CEO Ali Partovi, StumbleUpon's Garrett Camp, and Automattic's Matt Mullenweg. RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser had just flown in from Florida on a private jet. But for me the most interesting person was newly hired Digger Aubrey Sabala, who put the party together in three days — after Digg had given up on the idea. More »
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The art of the SXSW orgy
The key to getting some after-hours action on the last night of SXSW: Have a plan after the party ends. Three steps simple enough for you to follow on your iPhone:- Choose a diner near your hotel. After 2 a.m., your options are Magnolia's Cafe, Katz's Deli, IHOP, or Denny's.
- Practice your pickup line. Last night our host offered us a milkshake — innocent in itself, yet suggestive enough to prime us for the follow-on invite up to his room.
- Charge your cell in advance. Once we figured out sex was on the menu, we rang up a fifth to bring in. We would have gotten more, but the room didn't have enough outlets for all our iPhones.
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Nerds battle rockers as SXSW turns to music
Tonight's Bigg Digg Shindigg will be our last dance, nerd promsters. The real guitar heroes are here in Austin now, skinny pants and all. The star closing panel of the day, The Futurists Sandbox, featured slides from P. T. Anderson's lovesong to '70s porn, Boogie Nights, played to a series of monologues to eulogize Dirk Diggler as if he were a real person who died in 2025. Not even dropping Larry Lessig's name roused the crowd from Twittering. Or maybe they mistook the packed-to-capacity conference room for PureVolume.
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We don't need your Internet marketing, say music labels
"I need more marketing and promotion on the Internet like I need a root canal without anesthetic," Capitol Records' Ted Mico told an audience at the "Ad-Supported Music, a New Hope for the Industry?" panel today at the South by Southwest conference in Austin. Fledging music startups seeking licenses from major labels frequently try to offer "marketing and promotion" in exchange for concessions on deal points. But as Beggars' Group's Simon Wheeler said, "Promotion is great, but only when it's built on a sound commercial base." The song remains the same: Show them the money.
"Don't pitch me, bro" T-shirt maker Andrew Hyde
There I was minding my own business, and up pops Andrew Hyde, creator of VCWear.com, the VC-mocking apparel maker we wrote about recently.
There I was minding my own business, and up pops Andrew Hyde, creator of VCWear.com, the VC-mocking apparel maker we wrote about recently.
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Wired reminds you the good-looking people in Austin are actors
Including portaits and thumbnail sketches, Wired's Megan McCarthy posted on the "Faces of SXSW: Geeks and Film Freaks." Read it and you'll discover that venture capitalist David Hornik uses both Twitter and Pownce. You'll learn that MyToons founder Jessica Beers's dream job is being the MyToons founder. And, taking a close look at the portraits, you'll remember why you stayed home.
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True confessions of the world's busiest websites
Do not want fail? Why then, can has win, say the folks behind the curtains at Flickr, Digg, Media Temple, and StumbleUpon. Six of them showed up at a panel organized by Kevin Rose to explain how to make websites that stay online, more or less. Being a not very clever gossip, I just listened in for the quips. Oh, and the drama. Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg almost didn't make it. Check out how his fellow panelists updated the lineup right before he showed up. More »
"Is there any way Web 2.0 can somehow not make its flight back to San Francisco? Please. I'm begging" — commenter KyleShank
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Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins wasn't cutting it, so Mashable founder Pete Cashmore found his replacement at Rana Sobhany's Crush Party at Six Lounge Monday night. A disclaimer: as far as we know, Hopkins still has a job and that isn't a real caveman. As far as we know. More »
Blogging for Mashable: so easy a caveman can do it
Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins wasn't cutting it, so Mashable founder Pete Cashmore found his replacement at Rana Sobhany's Crush Party at Six Lounge Monday night. A disclaimer: as far as we know, Hopkins still has a job and that isn't a real caveman. As far as we know. More »
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The cure for the common hangover
AUSTIN, TX — I almost didn't sleep last night. At 4 a.m., after posting party reports for
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Scoble promises to catch caveman up on the very latest
Expect Robert Scoble's 1,535-word post on this encounter any minute. (Photo by Caroline McCarthy)
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Friends don't let friends get tattoos at SXSW
As I stumbled around the streets of Austin, a girl lurched out of an RV and accosted me, insisting that I photograph her freshly acquired tattoo. Do you <3 it as much as she does?
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Wishing you were in Austin? This video won't help. In it, a caveman — some say he's a Microsoft employee — attempts to pick up fanboy favorite iJustine at a SXSW party held Monday night at Six Lounge. "I'm not into technology," he tells her. "I'm into human connection." And she doesn't even pull a Lacy-to-Arrington on him. More »
At SXSW, even the cavemen are getting action
Wishing you were in Austin? This video won't help. In it, a caveman — some say he's a Microsoft employee — attempts to pick up fanboy favorite iJustine at a SXSW party held Monday night at Six Lounge. "I'm not into technology," he tells her. "I'm into human connection." And she doesn't even pull a Lacy-to-Arrington on him. More »
