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Entries for Wednesday, August 11, 2010

August 11, 2010

ObPanelPickerPlea

It’s that time of year again, and for the first time, I have some skin in the game. The SxSW Panel Picker is live, and I’m whoring myself to you, my loyal blog audience, to help boost the interesting content at SxSW over the meaninglessly-businesswank seo-driven-engagement-virality-crowdsourcing new-media-douchebag bullshit.

Voting takes two minutes. Register, click on the link in your email, then vote away.

First of all, my proposed panel:

If you only upvote one panel, I implore you to make it this. Inspired-by and spiraling-off-wildly-from my Ignite talk in March, this will offer tips to engineers working with designers, designers working with engineers, and anyone else working with either.

Proposals by friends/by folks who owe me money/which I want to wangle my way onto being on:

Proposals to which I have no connection, beyond thinking they sound amazing:

And finally…

“Contextual” advertising

“Contextual” advertising

The Pandora iPhone app apparently uses the text on album art to give you "useful" advertising.

Scottish delights at the Haven in Jamaica Plain - The Boston Globe

Review of a new Scottish restaurant in Boston. I will HAVE to go there when I’m in Boston in October. “The menu here is not light eating; at least half the items are deep-fried.”

Scott Pilgrim for iPhone

The Scott Pilgrim books for reading on your iPhone or iPad. I’d downloaded some pirate CBRs into Comic Zeal, so it’s nice to actually pay for them!

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