My Conference Can Beat Up Your Conference
i there sexy library creatures. I’m spending this weekend doing prep-work for the upcoming South by Southwest Interactive conference. In my case, this means re-dying my hair, e-shopping for warm weather gear, and drinking a lot of water. Chris and I are flying to Austin on the 9th – we’ll be hunting down margarita machines and Shiner Bock soon thereafter.
The cool local burlesque troupe that I wanted to take you guys to isn’t performing this month. Still, I promised a party so I’ll do what every good librarian should: utilize existing resources. I’ll meet everybody at the Frog Design party (they had belly dancers last year). I’ll be handing out Librarian pins and buying beer for anyone with a library degree. If are going to be in town, lemme know and I’ll send you my cell number. Chris is an Austin native, so we’ll be hitting some good Mexican food joints throughout the week. Finally, I’ll leave you with a list:
The Ethos of ALA vs SXSWi
| ALA | SXSWi |
| Gobs of free books | Gobs of free drinks |
| Shoulder Pads | Electronic Notepads |
| Informative panels about last year’s technology | Informative panels about next year’s technology |
| The Caldicotts | The Bloggies |
| Meet Winnie-The-Pooh | Meet famous pornographers |
| Nuclear politics | Nuclear tacos |
| Blue hair | Pink hair |
| Power suits and eye shadow | Power symbol t-shirts and iBooks |
| Sponsored by: Demco | Sponsored by: Tito’s Homemade Vodka |
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March 7th, 2006 at 9:49 am
Sounds like fun! Be sure to take and post lots of photos so that those of us who are not able to go to SXSW are still able to experience it vicariously. :)
One of these years we ought to try and coordinate conferences….
March 9th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
Mmmmmm. Shiner Bock. Wish I could go.
March 9th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
far be it from me to defend ALA, which I do attend but I don’t think meeting fictional characters or free books is a negative…are you sure you are a librarian? :) where else does the author of “knuffle bunny” have a line of people waiting to get his book signed? the kids books section of the ala exhibits is the best thing after the NationOnline booth. That said, I would much rather be at SxSW, if only for the locale.
March 24th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Free book rock! (which is why I *used* to ‘dumpster dive’ behind Barnes and Noble before they closed down…one gets used to reading books without covers.)
March 24th, 2006 at 9:20 pm
er, that’s “books” not “book” :/
April 3rd, 2006 at 7:52 pm
Hello! Cool blog, interesting information! Great work, very useful. Thanks you!
September 21st, 2006 at 4:40 pm
Much, much cooler than ALA. I’ll go to your conference anyday… hee hee Vodka and pink hair. If only…