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i will be drinking with them right after i do a little 6th street merriment

i need a better camera

but half way though she was all you should have a blog thats a road trip. some guy is out there and every day he tells you what hes doing and where hes at. i said now if i had said some guy you woulda called me a sexist.

she was dancing at the time.

and spun around when i asked that and winked when she answered.

later she said i would be the person who went around and blogged an endless roadtrip but i said i enjoy not having tell my life story to everyone i meet, in fact i enjoy LA way more than anywhere elese which is

and she stopped dancing

and i knew i had said way too much.

which is why the second half of the night was far too interesting to bother about writing.

wish u were there.

except we’re gazing at other peoples navels. but at least theyre interesting navels!

i tried to go hear Col. Tribune speak but the lady said it was “sold out”.

sometimes not even a press pass can get you into somewhere filled.

instead i had a super great conversation with Glenda Bautista who totally rocks. even her shoes rock.

while we were sitting there we ran into kris krug and his new gf who offered some of his sxsw pics for our LAT blogs. so guess who else rocks!

notice the owl, gage!

although they agree that it cant end it “it’s like brushing your teeth, you can never brush them enough and stop,” but you have to try to keep it from taking over.

they have three goals of social media to spread knowledge: create a refuge, mobilizing your base

earlier they were asked to recall their favorite racist moment online recently. of course the first example includes Sean Hannity. but later Jay Smooth says, “I couldn’t pick out 1 favorite racist moment. Each one is like a snowflake. And every YouTube video is like a blizzard” and then he shows us a youtube thread where people come out of the woodwork to spread the hate and ignorance.

later j smooth steals the show with one of his youtube videos that coaches that you should approach people about “what they did” and “what they said” instead of “who they are”. his blog is called illdoctrine.com.

right now theres a tie as to who’s funnier, him or Angry Asian Man who says that most of what he blogs about is to try to prove to his “own people” that there is racism out there. because, as he says, if his own community has their head in the sand then he’s out there alone trying to fight it.

one of the women, Latoya Peterson of Racialicious, also had a funny quip. she was recalling some of the sexist comments on one of the sites she works on. someone wrote “oh shes just angry because her vagina is so big”. she said that one of the women who read it laughed and said, “yeah that’s why i carry my laptop in it.”

the other woman, Katy Esquivel, is showing an interesting blog The Sanctuary that focuses on migrant issues.

excellent panel. very glad im here.

basart took this one of me at Casino del Campo while we ate and drank with dan, sk, henry copeland and his cohort.

afterwards i went to the Digg party at Stubbs where they had lots of portapotties

better pics to come. swear.

jay rosen is the supervisor of the deal, so i shouldnt be surprised that the interview turned into a good piece

one minor detail, the top blogs at the LAT increased 10-15 times in the last year, not 4 times. what went up 4 times was the amount of pageviews for all LAT blogs. but who’s counting.

on tap for this evening:

sk smith’s panel Suxors at 5pm
LA Tech party at 6:30pm
diggnation afterwards

this is a pretty great slice of whats going on here

i didnt think id be in any plane crash. but i should have predicted, however, that maybe i should have been nervous about my hotel sorta screwing me over.

no internet.

hi im here for an internet festival.

and im supposed to be covering it.

hi i just discontinued my air card because verizon was charging me $60 a month and i barely used it cuz theres wifi everywhere you go these days.

except in my hotel room.

a room that costs so much money because of its relative location to sxsw ground zero that i originaly thought it was totally worth it but now im thinking you dont get what you pay for.

at least it has a great view.

good news to its relative location is theres perfectly good wifi here despite the fact that everyone is using cell phones and laptops and a variety of other devices.

i am in the adobe day stage cafe right now because of its relative location to food drink and smaller speakers who get up there for 15 minutes and go for it.

in an hour and a half i need to find some wifi so i can commish a live fantasy draft. and then after that i think im gonna see sk smith moderate a panel called Suxorz.

then i think i will drink heavilly.

hopefully for the right reasons.

xoxoxxo
tony

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Jet blue to Austin non stop. Just bought a sandwiich that cost $7.50

But the good news is the truest took me here. We tried to leave early but I Hate being on time for airplanes

We woke up at 7. Got out of bed at 745. Got to the times to drop off my car at 9! Got to the lbc at 930. Departure at 1020. Since it’s now 1012 I should post now

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