Eric Sheline

I had a great time at SXSW interactive this year! It was my first time attending, and I definitely will try to make it back next year. My favorite thing about it was the nature of the festival: it was a huge group of like-minded people, all interacting, collaborating and sharing ideas.

Here were a few of my favorite panels:

-> How to Rawk SXSW: The Basics (Friday)

-> Comedy on Television and the Web (Saturday)

During the comedy panel, Avner Ronen was discussing hypothetical media consumption while traveling on a bus, and used the then-nonexistant “snackonsomeclips.com” to make his point. I had my laptop out and WHOIS’ed the site, finding it was available for purchase. Five minutes later, I was curious and checked again, and it had already been bought up by someone else in the audience!

-> Journey to the Center of Design (Sunday)

-> Ultimate Showdown of Content Management System Destiny (Monday)

-> Brave NUI World: The Fearless Future of Device Interaction (Tuesday)

As for the parties, I liked PBS Interactive’s party on Sunday and the MT-sponsored closing party Tuesday.

Hope to see everyone next year!

I just went to the 2007 Austin Maker Faire, tons of interesting stuff there. It was really great overall, there was everything from a human powered ferris wheel transportation device (see picture above) to a fire hydrant made into a flamethrower, and everything in between. The only bad thing about the day was that they stole away all our water bottles, forcing us to buy overpriced water inside. Shame on you, Make magazine, don’t let yourself stoop to the level of common sporting events!

Hello to anyone who may be reading this! I have just installed WordPress as a blog within my personal website. I will actually be building this blog before the website, so stay tuned here for updates!

In the future, I will be updating this blog with things like example work I have done possibly once every week or two.