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Red Hat tells customers, 'No more
freebies!"

Red Hat tells customers, 'No more
freebies!" 11/03/2003 12:17 PM
In an email to Red Hat Network customers, the company has announced today that it "...will discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 as of December 31, 2003," that "Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 9 as of April 30, 2004," and that "Red Hat does not plan to release another product in the Red Hat Linux line." This should not come as a surprise to NewsForge regulars who saw this story on October 23, but less-prepared Red Hat users seem shocked by the idea.

Apple Seeks Dollars In Former Freebies

Apple Seeks Dollars In Former Freebies 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
Apple's decision to stop offering free downloads of iMovie and iPhoto is part of a clear shift by the Mac maker to try to recoup more of the dollars it invests in creating software for the Mac. By Ina Fried (CNET News.com via MyAppleMenu)

Internet freebies come with strings
attached

Internet freebies come with strings
attached 12/26/2004 11:21 AM
Taipei Times Online Dec 26 2004 2:43PM GMT

Canadian Politician Worried About Fair
Use Freebies

Canadian Politician Worried About Fair
Use Freebies 06/01/2004 12:01 PM
Canada has done a better job than many other places in trying to balance the rights of creators and users of intellectual property - but as in many places in the world, it looks like that may be shifting in the wrong direction. A Canadian politician is trying to push a copyright reform bill that would require schools to pay a license fee for content that is available free online - even if that content is designed specifically for people to use for free. In fact, the politician recommending this change seemed upset at the "freebies" offered by fair use, and decided it was time to shut them off. Apparently, no one explained that "fair use" isn't a loophole, but a necessary point of balance in copyright law.

MacMerc.com's second iChat event with
freebies in Palo Alto Store

MacMerc.com's second iChat event with
freebies in Palo Alto Store 10/29/2003 12:10 AM
In anticipation of the 8pm release of the latest update to Mac OS X, code named Panther, we will be holding this weeks second iChat event. Start-up iChat and go under File and choose Go to chat... and enter MacMerc in the field that pops up.

Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign

CC@SXSW

CC@SXSW 03/14/2005 06:06 PM

We'll have a booth at the interactive conference, do two panels (Notes From the Underground: The Rise of Remix Culture and The Semantic Web: Promising Future or Utter Failure), an intervie w and a party (see below). Also check out Colin Mutchler's Free Culture Performance.

See you in Austin, Texas next week. By the way, we're all friendly.

CC at SXSW

CC at SXSW 02/11/2004 03:58 AM
Keep an eye out for Creative Commons at the South By Southwest Music and Media Conference this March in Austin, Texas. We'll be hosting two panels, announcing two projects that encourage collaboration and distribution of music and film. Details coming soon.

SXSW here I come

SXSW here I come 03/14/2005 05:09 PM

6:30 AM flight gets me into Austin by 2PM tomorrow.

Get to see Matt Mullenweg and Jon Lebkowsky and all sorts of peeps.

Some of us are going for the Trifecta: SXSW, Etech and then PC Forum.

SXSW so far

SXSW so far 03/13/2003 10:22 AM

Although the crowds seem smaller, or maybe there are just so many film people around, SXSW is fun this year. My panel went ok today, and I'm looking forward to relaxing the rest of my time here.

One thing has really been driven home by the availability and ubiquity of hacking tools: the downside of wireless is (un)security. I've been saying this since last year's E-Tech conference, but as long as Apple is pimping their airports and the wonders of wireless they really should have an "iSecure" app that makes ssh tunneling painless and easy. A few months ago I spent an entire saturday afternoon writing scripts to auto-login to my email server through a tunnel, and that was just email. Secure web browsing is something else entirely, and the services of things like anonymizer look attractive as a total package (but they're still a pain in the ass to setup).

Ideally, it should be entirely transparent, painless, and easy to setup and use a secure tunnel. Apple could even tie a service into their iTools accounts. I'd be happy to pay $50 a year for encrypted email and web traffic (with an easy interface to establish the connection).

SXSW 2004

SXSW 2004 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
In which we explore the minutae, delve into the mundane, and chronicle an event significant to only a few. Oh hey, it's a blog!

SXSW Bound

SXSW Bound 03/17/2005 04:06 AM
Our little crew is off to Austin TX for another joyous installment of SXSW Interactive.

SXSW Update

SXSW Update 04/09/2004 04:12 PM

Due to a family emergency, I've got to cancel out on South by Southwest this year. I'm really bummed, because the folks at the I2 institute have got a great Wireless program going on in conjunction with SXSW, and there's a teriffic set of blog and other social software panels and talks as well. Joi Ito, our new VP of International Business will be there, and you can reach him via email: joi AT technorati.com. He's going to be filling in for me on the Ridiculously Easy Group Forming talk on Monday afternoon as well.

Missing SXSW

Missing SXSW 03/14/2005 06:24 PM

I had a great time at last year's SXSW, so I was really looking forward to returning this year. Unfortunately, I've had to change my plans and won't be able to make it. My apologies to those who I planned to meet with - maybe next year!

Panel at SXSW

Panel at SXSW 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
I'll be moderating the ambitiously titled "Beyond the Blog: The Future of Personal Publishing" panel at this year's South By...

Heading to SXSW

Heading to SXSW 03/14/2005 04:24 PM

I'll be at SXSW this year after an absence of a couple years. My goals this year are to not get food poisoning and to be fully present at both the panels I'm participating in (I was slated to do a keynote but got bumped by Gladwell...whaddya gonna do?):

• Blogging vs. Journalism: Versus? Oy, that's quite the setup, isn't it? Hopefully it'll be a little better than that.
• Spam, Trolls, Stalkers: The Pandora's Box of Community: How does it go...social software is the stuff that gets spammed?

If you're at the conference, amble up and say hi...but be warned that I might ask you for money (not really, I'm just kidding [sadly, he's not just kidding, but was about the Gladwell thing -ed]).

SXSW: The Robot Ate Me

SXSW: The Robot Ate Me 03/22/2005 04:44 PM
An utterly bizarre and memorable show that cut through the SXSW industry facade.

SXSW /interactive

SXSW /interactive 08/21/2004 08:17 PM
South by Southwest Interactive Festival .. SxSW interactive festivals .. SxSW awards ceremony .. 2003 SXSW Festival .. registered .. south

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Municipal Broadband at SXSW

Municipal Broadband at SXSW 02/07/2005 01:07 AM
Events move so fast, my head spins: a few days after covering the flurry of activity around the New Millennium Research Council's report discouraging municipal broadband, I was asked to moderate a panel on the discussion on March 14 during the South by Southwest (SXSW) music, arts, and interactive festival and conference in Austin, Texas. Esme Vos is also on the panel, from MuniWireless.com, and we should have a rip, and might I add, roaring time. The interactive part of the event runs March 11 to 15; the overall event is from March 11 to 20....

Missing SXSW this year

Missing SXSW this year 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
We couldn't make South by Southwest this year because of the usual workload and our desire to not travel on one of our free weekends. The trip to Austin is usually fraught with some sort of travel mishap -- like...

SxSW Panel Notes

SxSW Panel Notes 03/19/2005 02:16 AM
A few follow-ups from the panels I was involved in at SxSW 2005.

SXSW: Blogging for Business

SXSW: Blogging for Business 01/02/2004 10:48 AM

Being a homebody, I rarely attend conferences. But this year's SXSW Interactive Festival is enough to get me out of the house. With panels by well-known web luminaries such as Jeffrey Zeldman, Eric Meyer and Douglas Bowman, SXSW promises to be a very informative event.

Oh, and I'm also going because I'll be among the panelists on the "Blogging for Business" session :) I think the last time I appeared in front a large crowd was when I was born, and I'm hoping this will be slightly less traumatic for me.

Choice SxSW quotes

Choice SxSW quotes 03/19/2005 02:35 AM

My American adventure is ongoing; I'm still in Austin at the moment, but I'll be off to Washington D.C. in a few days and there's a small chance I'll get there via Dallas. This doesn't leave much opportunity for online shenanigans, but there were a few things from SxSW that really needed a mention. The conference, as ever, was awesome - if not for the panels then certainly for the socialising. If anything I stretched myself too thin this year trying to keep up with the Brit Pack, the WaSP crew, some ex-colleagues from Lawrence and the people I met in San Francisco back in May.

I met a lot of new people this year as well. Since David Nunez had pointed out that "what do you do?" was a bit of a dull opening question (not to mention a conversation killer for people who dislike their job) I stuck with "So what are you excited about?" instead. It worked pretty well - I got a whole bunch of great answers, with the most random probably coming from the guy who was excited about mopeds (it turned out he runs the world's number one moped site).

The most entertaining panel by far was the Home Star Runner one, in which the Brothers Chaps finally revealed the secret to their animation success: motion capture! I'll have to post a few pictures once I get back on a high speed 'net connection; suffice to say the constant laughter from the room was heard throughout the convention center.

Anyway, on to the quotes. The first two are from Jacob Kaplan-Moss:

PHP is like a beautiful woman... with syphilis

Maintaining badly written code is like trying to solve a crossword puzzle set by someone who can't spell

I also like this one from Jeremy Dunck, who was justifying sharing your ideas with people at the conference despite the risk of other people implementing them first:

It's like the lazyweb in meatspace

The credit for the last one goes (I think) to Yvonne Adams, who made the sage observation that:

South by South West is spring break for web geeks

It certainly is. See you all again next year!

SXSW 2005 adventures

SXSW 2005 adventures 03/19/2005 02:37 AM

I'm on the plane back to NYC from what was my fifth SXSW. I hadn't been for a couple of years and it was good (and a little weird) to be back. Some thoughts, in rough chronological order:

Best panels I attended: tie between Jason Fried's How to Make Big Things Happen with Small Teams and Malcolm Gladwell's keynote. Having read Blink and seen him speak on it twice before, there was nothing much new in Malcolm's talk, but he's a fantastic speaker...knows his shit cold, didn't utter a single "um" or "like", could make the phone book seem interesting, but doesn't have to caper about the stage to be compelling.

Everyone was nice. Well, there was that one guy who was an asshole, but I think everyone pretty much ignored him. But everyone else, so nice to get to meet you or see you again.

Overheard in the hallway: "no woman who knows that much about CSS should be that good looking", "here's how I met Marc Canter for the first time: I'm standing outside at a conference, he comes up beside me and farts", "I have no idea who you are", "surf the glue", "no one will get naked in the hot tub with me", and "Ima gine Malcolm Gladwell...with breasts. That's how busy it will be."

My two panels sandwiched the keynote conversation between Bruce Sterling and Alex Steffen, so I was only able to catch about 20 minutes of it. But that was long enough to hear Bruce talking about smoking his shoes. LOL for reals.

BBQ! BBQ! In what could be a record for a bunch of folks who can't pay attention to any particular thing for more than 10 minutes at a time, fifteen of us waited an hour and a half for a table at Stubb's (cool menu pictured at right). I can't speak for the rest, but my beef brisket was worth the wait. As a bonus, Kathryn accidentally walked away with the primary object of our obsession during our 90 minute wait, the buzzing/blinking table-readiness notification coaster. I'm sure said coaster will be a treasured guest at many SXSWs to come.

Bruce Sterling's not-house party didn't really get crackin' until the geeks descended on the Zoob toys. The photo evidence pretty much speaks for itself here.

Ben Brown, because he asked me to. Many, many times. Ben, I expect you to comply with the terms of the restraining order from this point forward.

And finally, I'm at the airport ready to leave just after getting through security and I hear, "your attention please, Jason Kottke to security check 3 for a lost item pickup". Bag, check; rollie, check; coat, check; phone and wallet, safely stowed in the zipper pocket of my bag. What the heck could they have found and how on earth do they know it's mine? I zipped over the security check point and was waved over by a friendly/stern police officer. "You Jason?" "Yep." He holds up my wallet, which I swear on a stack of The Origin of Species was in my bag. "Holy crap," I said. "And that's not the worst part," he says with the most serious look I've ever seen on anyone's face.

Uh oh, I feel a full body cavity search coming on.

He pulls out my social security card and lectures me for two minutes on how I shouldn't be carrying it because it's all someone needs to steal my identity. Relieved that I'm not about to be hauled into a tiny windowless room for interrogation, I'm sort of chuckling at this point, which he takes to mean I don't believe him about the SS card. "Do you see me looking you right in the eye, son? That's how serious I am about this." Mr. Sir, as soon as I'm home, I'm taking my SS card out of my wallet and putting it in the safest place I can...right after I change into some clean underwear.

Great SXSW bl0gging

Great SXSW bl0gging 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
Because my brain gears slipped, I just got around to Heath Rows fantabulous blogging from the SXSW conference. You'll find near-transcripts and commentary. Wow. Here and here....

SXSW: Off the beaten path

SXSW: Off the beaten path 03/22/2005 04:44 PM
Thailand's biggest rock star and an exciting hip-hop crew from Senegal.

Pandagon: SXSW pictures

Pandagon: SXSW pictures 03/26/2005 05:36 AM
SXSW pictures

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Free Passes to SXSW

Free Passes to SXSW 03/13/2003 10:17 AM
Greg Storey, a nominee for the best weblog at the SXSW web awards, has requested that I mention that he...

SXSW - Zeldman keynote

SXSW - Zeldman keynote 03/14/2005 05:09 PM

Wes Felter is here - lots of other Austin peeps.

Here's Scoble and Eric Rice:

Zeldman is going over the same old issues - XHTML standards, coolio insider clique games (geting into conferences w/o paying), and....

He's also just siad he was afraid that his baby was on fire.

Flickr: Photos tagged with sxsw

Flickr: Photos tagged with sxsw 03/14/2005 04:51 PM
the collective visual experience of everyone at SXSW here .. Flickr: Photos tagged with SXSW

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Live Vorbis Streams Over 802.11b From
SXSW.com

Live Vorbis Streams Over 802.11b From
SXSW.com 03/16/2003 12:35 AM

Wireless Future conference at SXSW

Wireless Future conference at SXSW 01/26/2004 11:29 AM
This year's South By Southwest conference in Austin will feature a sub-conference on spectrum and wireless -- "The Wireless Future" -- that I'll be speaking at.

A four-day conference on the future of wireless, with full access to SXSW Interactive, that will include esteemed speakers such as:

* Keynote Speaker, Howard Rheingold -- Author, Smart Mobs
* Kevin Werbach -- Analyst/Writer
* Cory Doctorow -- Electronic Frontier Foundation
* David Weinberger -- Author, Small Pieces Loosely Joined
* David Isenberg -- Prosultant

Link

SXSW /interactive/web_awards/finalists

SXSW /interactive/web_awards/finalists 01/28/2004 07:02 AM
2003 SXSW Interactive Festival Website Competition .. list of SXSW web awards finalists .. SXSW People's Choice Awards .. SXSW award finalist .. anything

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Austin Project Featured at SXSW

Austin Project Featured at SXSW 03/06/2004 01:49 AM
The Austin Chronicle takes a look at the Austin Wireless City Project's initiatives around the SXSW music festival, which happens next weekend: The project is offering free iTunes music to users of the free hotspots set up by the project. In addition, the IC2 Institute, a research unit of the University of Texas, is making a presentation during an Interactive Conference going on in conjunction with the festival. The institute will talk about how everyday people can benefit from connectivity. Howard Rheingold, who wrote Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, will also speak at the conference. Other coverage of the Austin Wireless City Project's efforts include a story written by its co-founder, Rich MacKinnon. He offers a really great description of all the parties that benefit when a venue offers free hotspots. He gives the example of a free hotspot at an Austin restaurant and describes how a consultancy made money to install the router, a printing company was paid to make new coasters touting the free Wi-Fi, MacKinnon's company Less Networks pays a hosting facility to support the hotspot and a PR firm is paid to promote the free hotspots. He notes that even the big companies make money here, including Kinko's which printed a new sign, CompUSA which sold the access point, which was made by Buffalo, and SBC which provides the DSL connection. The list actually goes on, offering a strong argument for the business case behind free hotspots. [both links via Less Networks]...

Signing Sunday in Austin at SXSW

Signing Sunday in Austin at SXSW 03/08/2004 11:03 PM
A reminder of my upcoming Austin signing, this Sunday:

I will be signing copies of Eastern Standard Tribe Austin at the SXSW conference, immediately following the Bloggie Award Ceremony on the trade-floor.

March 15, 1:30PM, at the book signing area of the SXSW Interactive Festival Trade Show & Exhibition on the third floor of the Austin Convention Center.

If you're not a registered attendee at SXSW, you can get a free trade-floor pass here.

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Nikolai posted his SXSW photos,

Nikolai posted his SXSW photos, 05/24/2004 11:37 PM
Nikolai posted his SXSW photos, featuring a retro design from the HotWired school of information architecture. Coincidentally, tonight was my first visit to the Castle Hill Cafe; the food is excellent.

SXSW Website Competition Deadline

SXSW Website Competition Deadline 03/13/2003 10:15 AM
Did you launch your site or Weblog in 2002? If so, be sure to enter the SXSW Website Competion. The...

SXSW 2005 - a photoset on Flickr

SXSW 2005 - a photoset on Flickr 03/14/2005 04:50 PM
Even more Pix coming soon .. Min Jung

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SXSW Tuesday Morning 2: Cory and
Bloggers

SXSW Tuesday Morning 2: Cory and
Bloggers 03/13/2003 10:25 AM
Cory Doctorow is talking about the Hollywood Agenda. (His desktop wallpaper is Dr. Bonner's label, a psychotic babble of philosophy, scripture and self-improvement aphorisms.) Cory says: The role of technology is to create opportunities for the entertainment industry. The entetainment industry's role is to seek legislation that will close down those opportunities. From piano rolls to TV to Napster, that's been the story. Factoid: "If you were to tape digital movies and use Fedex to ship them to your friends, it would be about 100x less expensive than shipping them to your friend over the Net." Even at the fastest...

SXSW/iTunes Music Jukebox Jury

SXSW/iTunes Music Jukebox Jury 03/19/2005 03:15 AM

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