Shut Your Mouth, Try Not To Panic

A few more assorted notes related to SXSWi, just bulleted because I can't be bothered to do them justice right now.

• Badgerbag writes up her notes about tagging, group behavior, and popularity, which reminded me of Buzz quoting a take on Andy Warhol's famous saying: "These days, everybody is famous to 15 people."

• Bruce Sterling, whose closing keynote was well valleywagged, said, "I live out of my laptop". I get that - I carry an Empire Builder that I describe as "my life in a bag".

Sterling mentioned Alex Steffen whom I've actually met (but that's a different story and shall be told another time) and said to check out Alex's new book, which I may just do.

And he said "the wetlands of language", which appealed to me.

• These wireless interwebs are really nifty. I was online most of the time while I attended panels, and I signed up for several service sites that were mentioned, like:
-- http://www.platial.com
-- http://www.socialight.com
-- http://www.plazes.com

• I also signed up with a porn site that my host Jeff introduced me to. Good times. Good times.

Comments

[Mary]

Mmmm. Tomato porn. I'm diggin it.

[Silvia]

Very seedy porn site, indeed. How many hits did you get on this entry because everybody checks out the porn site you signed up for? Tell me :-)

[whump]

I can't carry a shoulder bag without tearing up aforementioned shoulder, so I switched to a Brain Bag a couple of weeks ago.