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Category: sxsw09

Sam Flores Versus Frozen Fish

Tweet At SXSW, one of the more hotly debated panels was “Is Spec Work Evil?” with Jeffrey Kalmikoff from Threadless facing off (“…in this corner”) against Mike Samson of CrowdSpring (“..weighing in at…”). The room was pretty full, probably 600-800 people, and there was clearly a line drawn between those for CrowdSpring and those for [...]

It All Starts With The Roots

Tweet I havent written in awhile. Mostly because I was at SXSW and I was absorbing everything I could. I absorbed Red Bull, BBQ, Rain, the SXSWSARS virus and words that provoked thought. Before I go on, let me say this is not my SXSW wrap up post. That will probably be over at the [...]

Kill All The Designers

Tweet As I was driving into the Lijit offices, I was thinking about this years SXSW conference, and how different it would be for me. I was thinking about the posts I had read from friends who were going and had gone before. The difference for me this year will be striking (speaking vs. not-speaking, [...]