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3 Ways To Reset When the Day Seems To Be Getting Away From You (Work-Life In Balance?)

jmacofearth — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:49:13 +0000

I have felt overwhelmed many times. And I have not always been able to breathe, walk and reset my way out of the overwhelm. But when I HAVE been able to catch the runaway freight train near the top of the slope, I can often reset, apply the brakes, and move with a much more effective and intentional goal in mind.

The #SXSW Reflecting Pool: Processing the Event After the Event

jmacofearth — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:58:11 +0000

Forgive yourself when you don’t make it to a panel or two you intended to attend. While Plancast and my.sxsw.com were good tools to announce your intention to attend certain events at SXSW, it is okay to NOT GO. I found myself having an hour-long conversation with a developer from NZ, now working in the UK, and launching a calendaring app. I missed the “party” I wanted to attend, but I made a friend for life.

Dell Blows Hot Air Up Twitter's Skirt: Claims for Twitter 4 Business Soar (Dell-On-Twitter)

jmacofearth — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:26:15 +0000

Yes, there is money to be made on Twitter and Facebook. And yes, you may be able to unlock the code that kicks your business into gear using social media. Setting up some accounts and blasting coupons may be easy for Dell Factory Outlet, but not so easy for everyone else. It takes a coordinated strategy, a team of people willing to spend time creating tweets or Facebook updates. It is true that Dell has been very successful with the coupon factory for refurbished computers. But many more Dell-on-Social-Media projects have launched and failed. And this is due to the fact that people ARE online looking for deals on computers and electronics. People may not be online looking for your product or service.

Apple iPad – "This Changes Everything" – The iPad Arrives April 3 (3-17-10 update v8)

jmacofearth — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:40:57 +0000

Even if this visualization is not real, you know it will be here soon enough. We waited for the iPhones appearance for 2 years. And look what that has done to the market. Now come the apologists for the other manufacturers who will say, "Apple is late to the netbook game, Apple will not be a factor... " And all I can say is goodnight and good riddance to a category that needed to be put to sleep.

SXSW Wrap Up for 2010: Pumpin the High 5s and Droppin the Lows #sxsw final update

jmacofearth — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:50:33 +0000

That's a wrap folks. The interactive festival in ATX, SXSW 2010, is done. Bring on the rockers and mods and let us geeks be awed by the sheer volume and volume of the partying that is about to kick off with the coming of the MUSIC FESTIVAL. Cause that's how it all started. Music baby, music. // But before we roll along, let's compare notes and see if what you got is close to what I got.

Twitter Keynote Trends Badly, It Wasn't All Umair Haque's Fault #sxsw #twitter

jmacofearth — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:32:49 +0000

So regardless if Umair Haque was hand-picked by Twitter to softball Evan Williams and not ask the hard "revenue" questions, at some point the casual CEO should've figured things were going badly, like maybe when the crowds were mobbing the exits. It wasn't because they were trying to get out and blog about the ho-hum platform he had just revealed. It was because the metaphors and soliloquies coming out of Evan Williams mouth were the same kind of nonsense you her at presentations where the leader is completely out of their element. I wonder if pharma had anything to do with @ev taking the digression of the interview with little to no resistance.

Dream All Day: #SXSW Last Day and Raining – Is This the End? Now Attending #bedcamp

jmacofearth — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:21:21 +0000

So the geeks are leaving and the freaks are arriving today. When the music part of SXSW cranks up the whole city turns into a zoo. The bands, roadies and fans heading towards Austin at the moment are massive and rowdy and ready to party. The concept of not partying must seem pretty alien. While the sessions at the convention center are all about business and connecting and promoting, the music portion of the SXSW festival is a PARTY. Like 5 days of Austin City Limits Festival, only bigger. Not a club will be unrocked, not a dark alley will be unpissed upon. That's just the way it is. Austin's been hosting the festival for over 20 years at this point, and it stays the same, even as it gets bigger.

Geo-This Geo-That: Gowalla Wins ATX Social Media Darlings Award at #SXSW; Exclamations of "So What!"

jmacofearth — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:16:12 +0000

So somehow Mr. Gowalla himself won the Texas Social Media Award. And I'm sure he checked-in and checked-out for that event last night. But I hope he kept the "I am at..." tweet to himself.

Smile Today in ATX: Penultimate Day at #SXSW 2010 – GEO: I AM HERE #viznotes

jmacofearth — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:37:28 +0000

Announces @anywhere – so you can integrate your site with Twitter oAuth, or sign-up and follow from within the page. But what about the whale @ev? Who is the interviewer? What does Twitter have to do to become stable. Was he given the questions ahead of time? #badinterview He even said he wasn't going to ask the "revenue model" question. UH! Why not? It's the real question we came to hear.

Hookups, Parties, Late Nights: Attrition at #SXSW "I didn't come down here to party."

jmacofearth — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:16:56 +0000

And then today I had a new-met-in-the-parking-lot friend tell me that "hookup" meant "having sex." I had said, we'll hookup later. She also knew of the drug-fix hookup concept, but we both agreed that neither of the prior terms were in play in the way I used the term. I loaned her $2 for the parking meter, she bought me a cup of coffee. HOOKUP. See we, connected. THAT IS ALL.