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SxSW 2006 Day 2 (continued)

OK, so I actu­ally have to do a quick wrap-up about Day 2: Jason and Jim’s open­ing remarks were fun, though most of what Jason had to say he’s said before on SvN, but I still enjoyed hear­ing him speak in per­son. Jim’s com­ments were in a way more applic­a­ble to my cur­rent inter­ests, since I’ve been employ­ing much of what Jason is in favor of (process-wise) for a while on my own. In all, an enter­tain­ing and some­what edu­ca­tional hour.

Next up was How to Bluff Your Way in DOM Script­ing (note to self: select replace­ment is wicked cool). Jeremy and Aaron present well, and they man­aged to explain how to work with the DOM so even I could under­stand, so that’s some­thing… I’m going to be using more DOM script­ing in my projects now, that’s for certain.

After some time spent walk­ing around down­town Austin, I met up with Bryan, who, by the way, is a really cool guy. We caught the “shut­tle” (really a large tour bus) to the frog design open­ing party (free drinks, a cool band play­ing tv show themes and other musi­cal ephemera, and lots of peo­ple. Lots.), and then ditched that scene a bit later to head to another party South by North­west at the Iron Cac­tus, hosted by Blue Fla­vor, Newsvine and a few other agen­cies who weren’t yelling their names quite as loudly from the rooftops (more free drinks, fewer peo­ple but less room). Finally met Jon Hicks, and a few other nice folks (my abil­ity to remem­ber new names starts to fail after a few free drinks…), then headed out to the bars, end­ing the night at a higher-end club on Con­gress (I’ll find out the name some­time… Vicci’s) where, thanks to Gar­rett and some of his female friends, we were able to skip the entire wait­ing line and get right in (still had to pay the cover how­ever; thanks to Mike for pick­ing that up :)

Now that I’ve com­pleted the first full day of my SxSW expe­ri­ence, I can eas­ily say it’s com­pletely worth the price of admis­sion — I’m head­ing to the Web Awards now, expect a Day 3 wrap-up a lit­tle later…

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Sunday, March 12th, 2006.

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3 comments on “SxSW 2006 Day 2 (continued)”

  1. Posted by Anton on Thursday, March 16th, 2006.

    Yes indeed, SXSW was a fan­tas­tic time, and I defi­nately plan on re-attending next year!

  2. Posted by Aaron Gustafson on Tuesday, March 21st, 2006.

    What? No linky for me?

    Seri­ously tho, I’m glad you enjoyed the ses­sion. I look for­ward to see­ing what you come up with for cool new DOM Scripts.

  3. Posted by Dan Rubin on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006.

    Shoot, sorry Aaron — couldn’t find the linky before I posted-y… ;)

    I’ve updated the entry, so now you’ll be famous too. It’s nice to see some­one from New Col­lege out in the real world (didn’t go there myself, but my ex and a few other highly intel­li­gent souls I know are grad­u­ates, it’s a neat place).