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South by Southwest March 12-17, 2004 Austin Texas	A technology media culture conference amidst TexMex, BBQ and cheap beer. Yum. I've been going to SXSW since 1999; here's some coverage of 2002, 2003. And coverage of 2004 below. Besides that, I wrote an article about the ideas in the air this year: "Social Surveillance for Mobile Media" on TheFeature.com.
	There, by the grace of Hugh, am I. Picture with the conference organizer for South by Southwest Interactive, a man I have cadjoled, disappointed and delighted in for years now. He's been very kind to give me an excuse to come to a great town, participate in a smart fun conference. Photo by Seabrook.
	The "Blogumentary" team.
	Howard stands under a mural at the Telepathic Tattoo parlor.
	Dan and Howard talking over Mexican food. I later joined them in the quiet lounge atop the Crown Plaza hotel, talking journalism.
	Anil and Jason - black-shirted, blue-jeaned brothers in business blogging.
	Lia (cheesedip) and Yi-May Chinese American Princess) with an umbrella in her hair. Nice to put faces on URLs!
	Lia (cheesedip) took this photo of me.
	Cory brandishes well-deserved BoingBoing awards as Boris hoists a star over his head
	The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Wendy working hard in the green room.
	Jane conducted a panel on multiplayer online games, with James, embedded reporter in an MMOG and Sheri, author of a book on gender-inclusive game design.
	I had a panel immediately after, about Games and Art. One of the panelists didn't show - I used my mobile phone to carry his voice - details here. Comments after the panel: interesting, the speaker-phone worked, but it wasn't the panel described in the booklet. Someone suggested I do that panel as described next year!
	The front row at the Online Dating panel included John, danah and Molly.
	As the event wound down, I joined a group of WI-FI sippers riding out the last bits and bytes. "Hey Cory, let's go to dinner!" "Hold on - I'm installing a new operating system upgrade." Joi played clips of Rumsfeld on Meet the Press for David and Andy. And danah and I were there too.
	Warren and Caroline, at an Austin Game Developers's Party.
	Kevin and Tom, from OK-Cancel, with the cards they designed - I wrote about them on GameGirlAdvance.
	Meg and Ryan at La Mexicana. I ate there four times, each time after 11pm. Delicious chile relleno, meat and vegetarian tacos, and on the last night, I took a recommendation for chicarones - cooked pork skins stuffed in a taco-type deal. Good chance to practice my Spanish.
	Cookies at La Mexicana - colorful. But I didn't eat any!
	My hosts at La Mexicana, and elsewhere - Randy and Lulu.
	Lulu is an expert chef, practicing daily. Here she works up simple delicious kale and olives with garlic.
	Lulu is an expert chef, practicing daily. Here she kneads dough for oven-baked wheat bread. Her t-shirt reads: "Fawn are Scanamping"
	Randy speaks to Ryan on my mobile phone during an AMODA show.
	This is Treewave, two folks playing dot matrix printers and old Atari hardware. Fantastic! I invited him to be on my panel, but he was too busy.
	Meg took this picture, saying I looked a bit like Less Than Zero. I was smiling too wide here for a total night denizen look though.
	Zack lifts some large BBQ to his mouth. All week, it was BBQ and TexMex. And Lulu's vegetarian fare! Good eating.
	In Bruce Sterling's library, Zack Rosen meets Zack Simpson - standing Zack Simpson is responsible for the moving Shadow Garden, playing with human form and computer interaction. Zack has self-taught himself enough biology to be working in a graduate studies lab doing advanced biotech research. Listening to him and Cory talk about future scenarios for smart bacteria was brain stirring.

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