Sabina @ SXSW 2011

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Impossible to write proper blogs in this environment, so I've turned Loudtwitter on in order to have a log of my thoughts and not lose them in the eternal Lifestream. XD; Will check back to add links and context as necessary.

• 00:16 Struck up a conversation with a fire-eater, she recced a street food trailer lot (sounds rather SEAsian!) #SXSW 4sq.com/g87Vt3 #
• 01:05 I'm at ramada austin central (919 e koenig ln, Austin) 4sq.com/fypR2T #
• 11:06 Spirited debate happening with NPR's Ashbrook repping for trad journalism values #SXSW (@ ACC - Ballroom F) 4sq.com/e6o2uz #
• 11:23 Q period: signal strength, attention wars as brands versus *actual* news (who then are the "stateless" players?) #curatedebate #sxsw #
• 11:33 Gary Kim: "my hope is that the avg citizen learns and upholds the standards of journalism" #curatedebate #sxsw #
• 12:28 Asked the rep when 3.0 was coming for #Blackberry; "They're working on it," she said #sxsw 4sq.com/efmgYv #
• 12:39 Eisner's lessons for mobile design: introduce cliffhangers to your app (hey, food for thought amirite) #sxsw 4sq.com/hdq01K #
• 14:18 There's a book version of this talk, apparently - Khoi Vinh's deck alone is brill #sxsw (@ ACC - Ballroom A) 4sq.com/heEdR3 #
• 14:38 Mortal Kombat: at the risk of sounding like a fogey, the fatalities are... bloodier than I remember them being ;;; #sxsw #
• 15:04 The indie games contigent #sxsw #screenburn yfrog.com/h36otfcj #
• 15:06 Settlers of Catan :P #screenburn yfrog.com/h4djfolj #
• 15:55 LevelUp: ...so basically, this is Farmville timed quests with real life food (it would work on me, sadly) #sxsw #gamelayer #
• 16:00 "quantitatively easing" the location-based gameplay space: create engagement with places w/o strict presence requirement #sxsw #gamelayer #
• 16:06 moral hazard of gameplay: a matter of broken mechanics? (reward schedules vs ultimate rewards - grading, global warming...) #sxsw #gamelayer #
• 16:22 So that was actually a pretty good keynote, huh - sidestepped the question of individual achievement, mind #sxsw #gamelayer #
• 17:17 Got into brand mascot panel just in time to hear Captain Crunch brand manager tell her story (nb: look up details) #sxsw #
• 17:40 Angry Birds Q&A: "So if Hitchcock were to remake The Birds, you'd consider the tie-in?" #sxsw #
• 17:53 Meet-meme.com trading cards: great idea, execution to be refined (more Wizards of the Coast stylee, elven leaf scroll borders) #sxsw #
• 19:20 So hungry I had to keep talking during #bigfrontier marketing horror stories discussion to distract from incipient hypo #sxsw #
• 19:22 But now I'm at the Iron Works BBQ and 4sq is down #sxsw yfrog.com/h0y0kmbj #
• 19:35 Place is like a really high turnover sugar shack - but, mirrorworld, the beans aren't sweetened #sxsw 4sq.com/et5ejM #
• 21:08 Dear gawd Klout scores on the proj screen, repros of Caravaggio on the walls, and... A Gaga impersonator? #sxsw 4sq.com/eSm3sC #
• 22:14 At the Cheezburger party with a cheese sculpture of famous cats on the Internet (no, srsly) #sxsw yfrog.com/h8lbwfj #
• 22:17 This is, like, the apotheosis/reification of purest Internet o_O #sxsw (@ Big Cheese Sculpture Friskies/ICHC) 4sq.com/ft3VL3 #

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