Forget meeting people at the SXSW parties. People watching is the best way to experience all the different personalities SXSW brings to Austin.
There was a soft, hungover buzz in the air when I began watching my fellow festival-goers today. The city stirred back to life after yet another night of company-sponsored parties and after parties. Crushed Monster and Red Bull cans lined the sidewalks like breadcrumbs back to Sixth Street. I watched bleary-eyed twenty-somethings in suits stagger from their hotel rooms and toward the Convention Center.
You can tell a lot about these people. Despite their partying, they have the self-determination to get themselves out of bed the next morning. These are the movers and shakers of my generation. They burn the candle from both ends. Interactive technology is a new and powerful market to capture, so only the smartest and most dedicated people can handle the lifestyle.
Sixth Street is eerily quiet as tourists wander zombie-like from their hotel rooms.
The quiet hum of the morning slowly grew into a roar as people flooded into the streets and toward their [Read more…]
Check out what is coming to Austin this weekend. Young Frankenstein, the side-splitting Broadway musical, will be on stage live at the Long Center for the Performing Arts.
Texas Independence Day is March 2nd, and our favorite state will be 176 years old this year. Instead of sharing this piece of trivia around the water cooler and forgetting about it, take a suggestion from the Austinot:
So the economy sucks right now around the nation…ya, we all know it. At my home in Seattle, I’d been scouring the net for Austin Texas jobs relentlessly. Why you might ask? Well, like many others around the nation, I got laid off in a city where the economy is so bad Bill Gates had to switch back to dial up.
Last night, I was having this dream that I was walking the streets of downtown