Does open source free your budget up for the best talent?
I asked her if the choice to go with open source is helping her to keep costs in check, here’s what [Dabble CEO Mary Hodder] said:

What happens with open source is you actually spend the same amount of money, but you don’t have lock-in and [...]

Posted January 31, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: cost shifting, Dabble, Mary Hodder, open source, oss, sustainability, sxsw, talent. One Comment.

There’s 173 programs proposed for SXSW Interactive, March 9-13 2007. Go vote for the ones you most want to see at Lindsey Simon’s super cool picker. Round one voting is going now. (Also note the really good use of semantic markup in the HTML download version (which I’m embarrassed to have sullied a bit in this representation).)

Posted August 13, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: conference, festival, interactive design, new media, program proposals, sxsw, sxsw interactive. 3 Comments.

SXSW passes have apparently been sold out for weeks now. So what’s Bob Garlitz, the MaisonBisson cultural affairs reporter, to do? Hunt for celebrities around Austin, of course.

Here’s how he describes his first hit:

…I decide hell, yes, it is Owen and give a tiny decisive blink. He blinks back in acknowledgment. I give him a little punch on his shoulder and say Hey, how’re you doing? I’m doing real good, he says slowly…

Posted March 17, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Questionable...funny. Pointless., Style, Fashion and Food, Travel. Tags: austin, austin tx, bob garlitz, celebrity, celebrity citings, cultural reporting, owen wilson, robert garlitz, south by southwest, sxsw, sxsw2006, texas. 5 Comments.