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PSFK Talks to Dennis Crowley of foursquare

Piers Fawkes | Posted 10.06.2009 | New York

Read More: Foursquare, Dennis Crowley, Psfk, Api, Clay Shirky, Internet Startups, New York City, Trends, Software Startups, Sxsw, New York News

Crowley argues that a location based service needs to evolve to understand a user contextually -- to tap into your calendar, for example, and understand if you have a hole in your schedule.

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A Primer on Twitter

Francine Hardaway | Posted 06.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Twitter, Google Reader, Social Network, Tara Hunt, Facebook, Sxsw, Ashton Kutcher, Tweetdeck, Living News

Twitter in a nutshell is hilarious, useful, informative, touch and intelligent. You will love Twitter after a while.

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Trimpin: Another American Visionary

Peter Esmonde | Posted 06.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: SXSW 2009, Silverdocs, Trimpin, Newport International Film Festival, Film, Musician, Sxsw, Director, Entertainment News

I needed to document the most creative person I could find, to discover how they'd managed to survive in this society. And I was lucky enough to find Trimpin.

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Letting Texas Secede

Robbie Gennet | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Wind Power, Supreme Court, Phil Gramm, Willie Nelson, Obama, Tibet, Arizona, Canada, Sxsw, Civil Rights, Military, New Mexico, Racism, Hurricane Katrina, Oklahoma, Constitution, Wikipedia, Energy, T. Boone Pickens, Karl Rove, Bible, California, Crime, War, Mexico, United States, Texas, Anti-Americanism, Darwin, Oil, Florida, Texas Secession, Alberto Gonzales, Unions, Politics News

Governor Rick Perry of Texas brought up the specter of Secession recently and upon polling, a fair amount of Texans and other Americans seem to think Texas seceding from the US would be a good idea.

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Twitter's Aspiring Micro-Celebrities

Sasha Cagen | Posted 05.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Geeks, South by Southwest, Twitter, Sxsw, Quirkyalone, Twitterati, Micro-Celebrity, Followers, Twitter Celebrities, Media News

The rules of fame are being rewritten. Andy Warhol would be pleased. Forget fifteen minutes, now you can create a cult of yourself on Twitter and be in constant conversation with every fan.

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The Shelf Talker: Arugula, Poetry, and New Best Friends

Kevin Smokler | Posted 05.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Authors, Booktour, Books, Cara-Black, Rebecca-Faust, Food, Ruth-Reichl, Walter-Mosley, Poetry, Sxsw, Media News

How a mind like food writer Ruth Reichl's works is more important her policy position on putting bread in the refrigerator.

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The Shelf Talker: The War to Settle the Score (and the Future of Book Publishing)

Kevin Smokler | Posted 04.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Authors, Ypulse, Publishing, Twitter, Zittrain, Anastasia-Goodstein, Steven-Johnson, Rachel-Kramer-Bussel, Technology, Sxsw, Books, Media News

TST was the third question-asker and inquired (plainly, we thought) why publishers act with suspicion and fear towards the very technologies and people that seek to cheerlead for their books.

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Metallica's Not-So-Secret SXSW Show As 'Young Band From Norway'

AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 04.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Metallica SXSW, Metallica, Sxsw, Music, Entertainment News

AUSTIN, Texas — Invading South By Southwest, Metallica attempted to pose as one of the hundreds of smaller bands there just hoping to get a reco...

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Optimism And Opportunity At SXSW

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 04.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Social Media, Robert Scoble, Sxsw, Guy Kawasaki, Chris Brogan, Zappos, Rosenbaum, Business News

At first, I thought it was just the group of people I was spending time with. Among them, the talk was rapid-fire and filled with unbridled enthusiasm...

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The Week's Fat Cats Deconstructed: AIG, Meghan McCain and SXSW Techies Revolt

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 04.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Meghan McCain, Populism, Participant Productions, Aig Bonuses, Sxsw, Barack Obama, Wilshire and Washington, Media News

Are Americans actually going to get up off their couch, grab their pitchforks, and storm Wall Street?

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"Bruno" Screens Scenes: It's Like A Gay Austrian Borat

AP | CHRISTY LEMIRE | Posted 04.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Borat, Film, Sacha Baron Cohen, Bruno, Sxsw, Entertainment News

AUSTIN, Texas — Some of the wildest scenes in the upcoming Sacha Baron Cohen comedy "Bruno" were shot in Texas, so it seems only fitting that he...

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Rachael Ray To Return To SXSW

AP | Posted 03.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Rachael Ray SXSW, SXSW 2009, Rachael Ray, Sxsw, Media News

NEW YORK — Rachael Ray is bringing more music and mojitos to the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference this year. The TV talk show host...

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Crawford: Filmmaker David Modigliani on Bush-Era Political Stagecraft (Watch the Movie in Full Here!)

Brad Listi | Posted 11.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Karl Rove, David Modigliani, Crawford Texas, Alamo Drafthouse's Rolling Roadshow, George W. Bush, Bush-Cheney, Bob Dylan, Crawford, Movies, D.A. Pennebaker, Cindy Sheehan, Dick Cheney, Prairie Chapel, Crawford Movie, Laura Bush, Brad Listi, Misti Tuberville, Condoleezza Rice, Crawford Peace House, Tom Warlick, Vladimir Putin, Errol Morris, Norma Nelson-Crow, Sxsw, Prairie Chapel Road, Home News

A hit on the festival circuit, Modigliani's film offers a poignant view of the small Texas town that was transformed overnight when George W. Bush bought his 1,500-acre ranch on Prairie Chapel Road back in 1999.

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Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Admits Mistakes

BusinessWeek | Spencer E. Ante and Catherine Holahan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Sarah Lacy, Billionaires, South by Southwest, Microsoft, Myspace, SXSW 2008, Social Networking, Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Sxsw, Google, Business News

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, 23, has developed a reputation, deserved or not, for being aloof and arrogant. And who can blame him? The Ha...

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Telling Tales From "Humboldt County"

Danny Jacobs and Darren Grodsky | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: South by Southwest, South by Southwest 2008, SXSW 2008, Sxsw, Humboldt County, Entertainment News

We've been working on this film for five years. That's longer than a presidential term for Pete's sake. How could two, relatively intelligent people choose to devote that much time to one project, you ask? Good question.

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