Dear Stalker:

March 12, 2005 - 7:18pm

Starting bright and early morning(I have to get up at 8:30.... eh...) I'll be "covering"(1) several events worth mentioning. Here are portions from the SXSW website's panel and speaker blurbs. I can already tell that tomorrow will be a bit more interesting than today:

10am: Blogging Showdown -- Representatives of top personal publishing companies talk about the strengths and weakeness of their applications, as well as discuss where this medium is evolving to in future years.

Anil Dash  VP of Professional Network  Six ApartJason Goldman  Prod Mgr  GoogleMatt Mullenweg    WordPressMike B Slone  Founder/ Creative Dir  InkNoise IncHalley Suitt  Blogger

11:30am: The New New Economy: Is 2005 the Next 1997? -- 2005 the new 1995? This panel assembles entrepreneurs new and old, silicon valley veterans, venture capitalists and technology journalists to talk about what they learned from the dot com era, and what (if anything) they're doing differently this time around. Lane Becker  Founder/Dir of Professional Svcs  Adaptive Path Dick Costolo    FeedBurner Caterina Fake    Flickr Eric Hellweg     David Hornik  Partner  August Capital

 

2pm: Keynote Speaker: Malcolm Gladwell

 

3:30pm: We The Media -- Gillmor's new book explains how grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopoly on the news, transforming it from a lecture to a conversation. Hear the author explain his ongoing insights on this historic transition of power.

Dan Gillmor    Author

5pm: How to Grow Online Community -- How do you foster a sense of place, even as traffic on your site begins to soar? Two web pioneers discuss their separate approaches to the ever-elusive concept of community.

Craig Newmark  Customer Service Rep & Founder  Craigslist Matthew Haughey  Founder  MetaFilter Molly Wright Steenson    Girlwonder.com

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1. By "covering", I do not mean reporting anything regardless of how boring, or of little significance the information happens to be.  Instead, I mean that I'll be taking lots of notes; and God forbid I feel that this blog's audience might be interested in the culmination of my labor, than I will publish it

2. Congrats, you might be the only person in the world who bothered to read this post to the bottom.

 

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