Well, yes, I lot of places aren’t like Austin, but some are awesome and you have a lot of fun. You should try to travel around Texas a little bit more and you’ll see. Austin doesn’t have a Billy Bob’s Nightclub (Dallas does and it’s the best party place). Houston has a lot of great attractions (I think better than Austin, in a way).

So, stop disrespecting and try other places. You’ll be surprised.

next year!

good to know derek’s hidden talents…should be fun to see in person at this summer’s @media 2005 conference…

The fifth point in your post is something that I have definitely felt, but it hasn’t really been articulated until this point.

Glad to know you had such a good time, Mike. Now let’s get something going down in Champaign, IL, home of the first web browser! Any harm in wishful thinking?

Being a relatively new Mac owner, chatting with strangers on Rendezvous and sharing iTunes libaries (cough, OurTunes, cough) was one of the cooler things about SXSW. The sense of community both at the conference and online with things like Flickr and Technorati was really enjoyable.

I really enjoyed your typography panel. Very informative. With no formal design training whatsoever, it’s been one of the more difficult things for me to pick up as evidenced by the Georgia and Verdana on my site. You made it interesting and informative at the same time. An hour’s definitely not enough for someone to learn too much, but you gave me the interest and the resources to get out there and learn more.

I will most definitely be there next year myself!

After i read half way i was already on orbitz and SXSW looking at prices and trying to calculate a rough budget!

But I’ve got a full year so im not too worried :D

Hope to see you there Stefan, and Mike..along with a whole list.

Also, is there a list somewhere of all the web-related conferences in the U.S.? I tend to hear about these things from reading various weblogs.

Just a small typo—

“flew back to Seattle with Matt May of the WC3 who showed me how to use a cron job to pull the last 10 del.icio.us bookmarks into your linkblog automatically. “

I hope I’m not wrong, but shouldn’t it be W3C?

(Editor’s Note: Uhh, yes. Thank you very much! Fixed!)

I don’t know about you, but if you added a number 11, I would add that when it comes to drinking and partying, almost everybody knows how to step up to the plate. (Some a little more than others…)

Anyways, it was a pleasure to meet you at SXSW. I wish I could have made the typography panel, but alas I ended up at the 2010 panel. Don’t get me wrong, it was good, but nothing mind-blowing.

I was at SXSW as well and enjoyed it immensely. My opinion of Joe Clark changed for the worst though. I was hoping to hear more from Jason Santa Maria during the “Does Design Matter” panel but instead I listened to Clark interrupt Zeldman.

Ah, well, still a great experience.

I too noticed the preponderance of Macs at the conference. I’ve never been to a conference where so many people brought their computers to the sessions. People were taking notes, viewing session slides, visiting the web sites mentioned by panelists, IMing, all at the same time. Whew!

I also got a kick out of the little pods of people sitting on the floor in the hallways, all huddled around electrical outlets, recharging their batteries. Someone could have made money with a generator and available outlets.

But thanks anyway, Stephan.