It was a week of strange and interesting events made up of confusing acronyms. To start with here in NY there was SESNY, a "Search Strategy" conference, for geeks and Internet publishers. I went this year for my company and the most interesting thing about it was that the NY Times had a booth this year, showing off their new digital subscription. It incorporates the latest in print to web information architecture and has a lot more pictures in their slide shows. Agreat thing about optimizing for search is it allows me to spread the word easily about things on the web, when I know different technical techniques to game an online poll or get a post to rank on the first page. The marketing is almost all common sense, luckily I already have that, and I don't need someone with an english degree telling me how to use twitter (click the buttons right?). One interesting high tech session was "automating twitter," it was ridiculous watching how advanced some programmers get to make twitter bots appear as humans, watch out custies!! The talk on information architecture was a bunch of jargon and info recycled from old blogs and was pretty much useless.
At SXSW Jambase and Relix each held a few showcases with some great bands. Kayceman from JB even had his own Treehouse Party. SXSW is perhaps the biggest music festival going write now as it incorporates, Film and New Media. In addition to the main draw of great music.
Then there was some festival in Mexico, put on by Brooklyn hipster, indie rock, mogul Tod P. Most of the bands did not show up do to gangster cartel warfare. Why do they call this DIY? when MTV is all over this stuff, its the standard trust funds and corporate backing, media hype etc.
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