I am SXSW

After an unending day of flying yesterday, I’ve finally made it to Austin for the SXSW Interactive Festival. When I left Vancouver Friday morning, I left two inches (to my inexpert eye) of snow on the ground. I arrived in Austin near midnight to 78 degrees and humidity. My body is still reeling from the change.

This is my first visit to SXSW, and I’m so excited about it. This festival is huge—my cabdriver (“It’s not that I’m prejudiced; I just don’t like foreigners.”) told me he expects to make $800 in cab fares from festival attendees every day of the event. Even at midnight last night, the streets and hotel lobbies I caught a glimpse of were packed. There’s a lot of energy here, and it’s almost all GOOD.

Wish me luck now—I’m off to pick up my badge and find my fellow panelists for our 3:30 talk about making a living designing blogs. I haven’t met Peter, Joelle or Lisa in person before, and I know we have tons of talking to do, comparing our businesses and this industry. Paul Chaney, our moderator, I have met before and it’s always great to reconnect with him. There are some busy days ahead!

Posted by Susannah Gardner on 03/11 at 10:54 AM • Blogging Events -- Blogs
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  1. I found your book and blog while researching blog marketing. Blogging seems like a great way for writers to make money since companies will need people to do all this writing. Unfortunately, everyone expects people to write for free! I have an idea for an Internet company and web service that would match up copywriters with companies in need of professional bloggers. Maybe that already exists. I would like to find some work doing that myself.

    In the meantime, I’m just using blogging to promote my technical skills as a web developer. Blogging is just a simple little web application from my perspective.

    Posted by Robert S. Robbins on 03/19/06 at 12:49 PM
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