SXSW Interactive Community Blog

So if you are interested in skiing in Ireland then you should really check out www.skiing.ie where is there are some great articles for people looking for information about skiing. Every year the number of people skiing and snowboarding is increasing more than any other sport. People are discovering how much fun aprés ski is and how great it is to learn how to do a new sport. European skiing is getting more and more popular, countries of special interest include Bulgaria , which has recently joined the EU. If you have not got skiing yet, then you should think of going for next season.

Here is a picture of a friend skiing in the French Alps recently !

A vacation in Saudi Arabia is like a holiday in another world - in a good sense. Saudi Arabia has a lot to offer its visitors, though it may be different from most countries, worth experience its rich culture, religion and tradition that gives the country its uniqueness. Saudi Arabia has great respect in their beliefs and customs and they truly value their religion…

I’ve posted a recording to the Internet Archives of Kyle Marchulis demoing his teledildonics device in a hotel room in the Drikill Hotel on Saturday night at SXSW 2006.

http://tinyurl.com/znc5a

Kyle runs the open source teledildonics website www.slashdong.org and was a panelist on “The Secret Sex Life of Games” panel this year.

Support Katrina Kids

We need volunteers to develop/deliver online fund raising in support of kids impacted by Katrina. A lot of work is going on to rebuild critical infrastructure, so we started Project Connect to support the kids. Project Connect provides students an online digital magazine to share their creative voice and a secured means to collaborate within the context of their school environment.

Educators are telling us how important it is to give these kids a voice and show them support. They feel abandoned by the system and for many it is worse now than in the fall as it sinks in they are not going home.

We need to raise at least $100,000 to keep the program going. We already have 80 teachers signed up and partnerships with chapters of Communities in Schools and the National Writing project. But need to raise funds in order to continue to provide the program free to all kids in Louisiana, Mississippi and those scattered across the US, as well as their new host schools.

Details are on our web site, www.ct2inc.org, and our partner who is hosting Project Connect, www.4empowerment.com . Folks can contribute online through using PAYPAL.

If you have a passion for the kids and expertise in online fund raising, please shoot me an email. We really could use your help in generating online word of mouth and contributions.

Sincerely,

Martha Gimbut

Executive Director

Center for Technology Transfer (501-c3)

martha.gimbut@gmail.com

$ ping google.com
PING google.com (72.14.207.99): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=240 time=739.516 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=240 time=765.979 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=4 ttl=240 time=871.342 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=6 ttl=240 time=761.812 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=9 ttl=240 time=1835.085 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=10 ttl=240 time=906.890 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=11 ttl=240 time=475.680 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=12 ttl=240 time=1059.284 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
14 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 42% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 475.680/926.949/1835.085/377.106 ms
$

Click here to find out how:

 http://www.nodrugtesting.com/

Enjoy the rest of the Fest!

-shannon batson

In my hasty exit from the “Design Eye for the List Guy” show yesterday I left my Sony Ericsson z500a (at least I think that’s the model number) flip-phone sitting on the chair next to me. It’s somewhat battered (the metal-colored paint is wearing off) and has a picture of my gal as the backdrop.

I realized fairly quickly I’d left it behind but when I got back to the seats a person sitting nearby said that someone had grabbed it already.

If that was you, please just drop it off at the lost and found, or if you know someone who knows me (Christian Crumlish, aka “xian”), please ask them to point me out.

Feeling strangely naked….

Update: My phone was indeed at the lost and found this morning. Thank you mysterious stranger!

tags: sxsw2006, sxsw

Hey SXSWers! Having an awesome time in Austin, TX! Curious, though, if there were any SXSW peeps crashing at the Holiday Inn Town Lake?

There’s now a public group photopool for photos from SXSW Interactive:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/sxswi_2006/

Here’s a little bit more about Ektron’s Day Stage presentation for web developers and designers, “Putting Buzzwords to Work on the Web.”

Ektron’s chief technical officer Bill Cava, a former architect at Lycos and a man with a serious passion for Internet technology, software architecture and user-centric interface design, will be discussing Web 2.0 buzzword technologies, such as blogging, RSS, tagging, AJAX and threaded discussions, and their practical application using web content management tools.

During the 30-minute session, Bill will take you through:

·         The promise of interactive websites – what the whole Web 2.0 concept can mean to your organization
·         Content, content, content – create, organize, search, syndicate
·         Community-building with your website – building community is about facilitating conversation between you and your site visitors and among the site visitors themselves using site membership, structured blogging, threaded discussions (AKA forums), surveys, alerts and RSS, and other cool social networking tools
·         Common challenges in site design and development – what do you want your website to do?
·         Knitting disparate technologies together – many individual Web 2.0 technologies work on an ASP/hosted service model, but you need to keep control over your data, uptime and security. What can you do?
·         The importance of standards – current standards can help you gain some benefits around search-ability, accessibility, reach (cross-browser and cross-device) and maintenance/scalability
Come see the show at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 12, or 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, March 14. You can also talk hot web technology with Bill in Ektron’s booth, #L5, and register to win one very hard-to-get Xbox 360.