A Few Tidbits From The South by Southwest Interactive Festival
My annual pilgrimage to South by Southwest Interactive is coming to a close tomorrow afternoon. It seems like attendance is up this year which is awesome to see. Check out the video of Halcyon on Austin360.com describing why he keeps showing up at the festival after seven years. He captures the essence ...
Austin!
Josh Darden and I are in Austin for a few days for the South by Southwest Interactive Festival. I'm very much not missing the cold weather back home in Boston.
Getting Stuff Done
Yesterday Pete Caputa and I went on an appointment tour to various venues in Boston to talk about his company's (WhizSpark) event planning platform and promotion tools plus my event planning services. I watched him handle a cold-call situation immensely well. I was interested in sticking to the places I had spoken to ...
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is Lame
I don't seek out reasons to be sassy, honest. But today's email from an SEO company working for one of my favorite websites/tools: local-i, is retarded. He sent me an email several weeks ago asking that I talk about local-i on sooz.com and also include it in one of my newsletters. I ...
Boston WiFi Meetup Wednesday 9 March @ 7PM
The March 2005 edition of the Boston WiFi Meetup is tomorrow, March 9th at 7PM. We're meeting at Toscanini's in Central Square, located at 899 Main Street. We'll be talking about the Boston WiFi Summit that Boston City Councillor John Tobin is putting together and whatever else comes up.
Fabulous!
JPG Magazine announced that the theme for issue three is "fabulous." They'll start accepting submissions on April 2, 2005. Fabulous! tag: JPG Magazine
Public Service Announcement: What’s In A Name?
I go by Susan Kaup or Sooz. There is no Sooz Kaup. Or if there is, it's someone else, not me. Just for fun I've started to tag websites that I come across by other Sooz humans out there. Here's the collection that I've tagged via del.icio.us.
Now Playing via RSS
I noticed a few weeks ago that my Audioscrobbler RSS feed was working again. It didn't seem to be working for quite a while. So, if you're ever wondering (bored? curious?) what I'm listening to on iTunes (when not listening to Exploit Boston! Radio), add this RSS feed to your newsreader. Warning: Questionable (perhaps) ......
Conspire
Happiness can always be found in projects that use a favorite word such as "conspire." Pete Caputa mentioned our conspirations. The people I share office space with and I have a newish website in the works for our space: The Conspiratory. When I use the word (and variations of) conspire, I like the second ......
WiFi Task Force at City Hall
A few months ago Patrick McCormick (former CIO of Somerville), Michael Oh and I helped start up BostonWAG, a wireless advocacy group for Boston. The group's mission: Advocate for public access to the Internet via open wireless networks. BostonWAG believes that open wireless networks can strengthen communities, foster economic development, minimize the digital divide, and...
Dear Basecamp: Will You Marry Me?
Thinking about life before Basecamp is a lot like trying to think about life before the internet itself. I use my Basecamp site for my clients, project planning for my own projects/websites, etc. I recently set up a project area for business collaborations with Peter Caputa at WhizSpark and to also offer feedback about ......
Yahoo’s Netrospective: 10 Years on the Web
Jess Barron, a coworker in 1999 at Wild, Wild Web (and a high school classmate of Michael's -- it's a small, random world!), sent me an email this morning about Yahoo's 10th Anniversary. She's part of the team at Yahoo! who put together a "netrospective" of their first decade on the web called "10 ......
