passive aggressive woman: blogging is like crack, you put it up there and you get feedback.

white people guy: you get feedback from crack?

lol cats guy: thats more like acid.

(later)

lol cats guy: i didnt write it, i bought the popular site.

white stuff guy so you earned it

lol cat guy: act like a rock star. they want you to do things on their terms. in most cases (publishers) want the talent. dont let them change what they want.

white guy: i had a great time with my book publisher. they didnt ask me to change anything.

the panel hates him.

dooce: “we’re (mommybloggers) not going to wait around.” theyre’re approached by publishers who disrespect them. i was sued by a publishing company and paid a lot of money not to write a book. it was a horrible experience.

dooce: you do not ever get to take a break. if you take two days off people are like are you ok did you die?

white guy: dont tell me to add Stuff White People Like to Stuff White People Like.

cox: i quit. it was too much. not so much the negativity. but the ability to leave the house. if you want to quit… i traded doing something that i loved but not being able to leave to house, to doing something i dont love as much but i get to meet people.

huh: you dont have to write yourself. you can plug in someone else to write the blog for you and then pay them. its called a business. it works.

question: how do you determine your boundaries as to what you wont write about?

white guy: im pretty vicious about myself. i wont write about abortion. if the asian girls post has 4000 comments… imagine what an abortion would be like.

dooce: i enjoy fostering the persona that i’d say anything. our sex life is one of them.

cox: theres nothing i wont mock.

question: all of you have made the jump to print, yet the panel is called print is dead.

miller: also our blogs suck.

white guy: its also dealing with the consequences of success. it was tough to sleep at night when his book came out because so many people wanted it to fail. people really do want you to fail.

dooce: i was misquoted in an interview. why would musicians have a hard time dealing with fame? youre suddenly aware that 100 to 1000 to 100k people hate you. it can screw with your head.

question: books and blogs – a combo of great voice with great ideas. does voice matter.

white guy: idea and execution. if its just a voice its hard for things to grow.

passive agressive woman: lots of people have great ideas. its hard to get off your ass and doing it.

question: how do you deal with AOL newbie speak without wanting to kill yourself?

LOL guy: i have a degree with how to write. northwestern. language evolves. its going to change.

white guy: when did we agree that animals talk? later… i was a TA for four years, its not the comments that are the only places where language is LOL bad. the college kids cant write. if you write about Race in any way, the UR in the comments is the least of your problem.

lander of Stuff White People Like – got people searching for Fair Trade Coffee (which he was making fun of) and got readers 4 lyfe.

kerry miller of passiveagressivenotes.com: dont start a blog if youre trying to be internet famous. people can tell.

they are going to questions after 10 minutes. which is weird cuz theyre funny people.

first question: im actually live-tweeting this (audience groans). then asks about death threats – how do you handle it?

Huh from LOLcats tries to think of a phrase longer than 140 characters. “the base level of the Internet is douchebag.” when youre nice to people will go from threatening your life to being apologetic and very nice.

lander: a fair amount of people arent going to like me. im ok with that.

armstrong (dooce): when she gets mail to her actual house, that freaks her out because she has a PO Box thats public.

questioner: how do you explain to old

ana marie: i want to set up an adivce column for people who are internet famous because we have problems. like, some people dont know we’re famous.

Huh: its hard for me to walk down the block without cats rubbing against my leg.

cox: you get a lot of pussy then.

lander: i try, i dress like a White Guy every day…

Huh: we’re internet famous so we’re no better than Steve Urkle. in fact he walks down the street and everyone knows who he is.

lander (deadpan) : his name is Jalele White and hes moved on and done far more bigger things since Family Matters.

Dooce admits that she doesnt like reading or writing books. prefers magazines and blogs.

something that could only be done properly here at sxsw.

these days and nights have gone very quickly. but they are very good.

i have meet a few long time busblog readers who have come up to me and introduced themselves. one guy even took his picture with me.

very very nice.

when there arent a gazillion comments sometimes i feel like its just me and the google spiders proving each others existence, but when people either write me out of the blue or come up and say hi, it reminds me that this mic is on.

and its hot.

speaking of… tonight we party and tomorrows the last day of sxsw interactive.

then the rock comes in town. 1900 bands.

and here are some of the rumored bands i have heard in the halls and seen on twitter:

motley crue, janes addiction, kanye west, metallica.

bad news is im leaving on saturday and two of those rumored acts are rumored to rock on saturday night.

but i’ll make due.

somehow.

with your help, as always.

from your man Scott Sterling at Pop n Hiss:

According to the latest press release, the site goes fully live on March 24 as a subscription-based portal, offering fans access to the new music, as well as unleashing a torrent of extremely rare concert footage from his entire career. Ranging from early shows to his already-mythologized appearance at Coachella 2008, Purple People who ante up the annual $77 fee can download all three of the new albums and all of the requisite goodies that come with them (lyrics, photos, etc).

But for L.A-area Prince fans, March 24 will be especially juicy, with the artist planning on performing no less that three different shows in the city at three different locations, and with a unique band at each stop. Details are promised on LOtUSFLOW3r.com over the days to come.

isnt that soon from now?

357pm a close shaved woman says that the woman who she was having sex with stated clearly that she would write about the liasons but she would do it under a fake name. a man says thats weird. people are now defending the blogger because “its so important” for us to learn. especially about things that we dont talk about honestly like our sex lives.

358pm a woman says theres always been people writing about sex, but the internet gives more people a distrobution platform.

359pm: man: can i say one more thing?
melissa: no because you talk alot

4pm: nick: “(im) worst person to sleep your way to the top.”
melissa: “some said i got my job at valley wag because i f’ed nick. but i got it because i f’ed my editor who’s gay?”

4:01 fuzzy hair guy is saying that he jumps out of planes, shrooms with cage fighters, sleeps on couches.

i bet you that hat gets you a lot of girls. well you gotta be careful what kind of girls it is cuz it might end up in the internet.

4:02pm – the topic is now “leveraging who you f– to get ahead” NOW do you wish you were here?

4:03pm a woman with purple streaks is worried about being “that girl” if her sex tapes get out. shes worried cuz “it’s facebook, man.” she says the people who are professionals in her life will help her get ahead, not the people she sleeps with.

heres what other people had to say about this panel as they were twittering:

3:46pm the audience is sharing things they probabaly shouldnt. they are pondering why people would disclose things in the comments of blogs and sites that they probably wouldnt want their spouses to see.

3:47p melissa says because she was writing about sex to nerds for some reason they though she was going to write “i f*#@ed steve jobs in a sling” “oh i didnt but i know someone who did.” laughter

3:48 she says shes glad she grew up queer because it prepared her for this. wait, i thought she was dating nick. im so confused.

350p a nice woman with a thick accent is talking in front. i think i met her yesterday. she has a great seater on.

351pm a woman says to her new bf “dont google me and i wont google you because i want to be present and just be with you.” later she tells someone “i have this great story but you should just read it on my blog.”

352pm a guy – hey its kris krug – says he has a rule “you can blog about me or you can date me but you cant do both”.

the busblog dont mind if the girls blog about me. why not.

3:30p Nick Douglas and Melissa Gira have packed the room. after nick presents the intro someone in the crowd interrupts and asks “what is the twitter hash tag for this panel?”

welcome to someones hell

#hotttsex was agreeed to within one minute.

3:35pm a man shares the tale that even though he and his wife have been married 25 years, his wife notices, and becomes annoyed that he has been friending a lot of women on Facebook.

3:36pm the room next to us is roaring in laughter. have i picked the wrong panel?

3:37pm dude with a fuzzy had and a huge camera has nealt before me.

3:38pm does anyone *not* check up on the people we date any more? does anyone say “lets go old school and not google each other”.

3:39pm for such a sexy topic the conversation is less than sexy.

3:40p a very tall man has now decided to Stand in front of me. let it be known that i am sitting in a chair near the back corner of the room.

3:41 a woman is sharing that one of her first interviews was with howard stern. she says the blogosphere got a hold of her interview and it turned her book into a success on amazon and her honesty helped her get google #1 trend.

3:43: being volcanic on google for one day, then being on tyra and dr. phil, just based on one howard interview.

not sure what the point was about all of this, but now theyre talking about KY.

im going to way more today.

right now im in the International Business in China for Fun and Profit one.

robert scales and kris krug are on it so i know it wont be dull.

its one of the few panels at this hour because todays keynote is also going on. so i got in here early, plugged in so i could charge the iphone and figured it would be a good time to blog for the first time.

me and sk were at the Bloggie awards. very nice, wholesome, funny blog award deal. lasts about an hour cuz hardly anyone is ever there to accept. Wonkette was up against some super hard competition like fivethirtyeight and cute overload and gawker.

much warmer today. this morning i walked across Brush Park to listen to gabe rivera talk about “beyond aggregation” and i had no flannel on and it was nice.

its almost too bad that they cant spread this out over a longer period of time. like once a week someone owns the SXSW video channel and during lunch they broadcast some tips. maybe they host a panel at their workspace.

i say that because almost every panel has some really valuable information.

chinas most famous heavy metal guitarist is in the front row. hes now into the tech world.

siyanara

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

i need a better camera