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March 09, 2007 — 0 Comments, Hampton Inn Austin Downtown

SXSW 2007: Friday

So it’s Friday, and I haven’t even picked up my badge yet, but it’s obvious that South By Southwest is going to be quite a fantastic experience. I’m staying at the Hampton Inn, just a block or two from the convention center, so if you’re here too, make sure you hunt me down and we’ll grab a drink.

There’s going to be a ton of things to do, and I haven’t really absorbed the schedule at all yet, so I’m sure it’ll be a flog-a-thon of a week. After flying in yesterday on an incredibly easy itinerary on Delta through Atlanta, I shared a cab with Aaron Gustafson, whom I met in Vancouver at WDN, and Chris Schmidt, whom I hadn’t met before. At the Hampton Inn’s happy hour, I reconnected with folks like Jeremy Keith, Patrick Haney, and the whole Refresh DC team.

I also got to meet up with Tara Kohn, a college friend whom I hadn’t seen in a while who is a graduate art history student at UT, and spent the night with her and her friends in parts of Austin I probably wouldn’t have gotten to check out otherwise, so big thanks to Tara and crew.

I’ll be posting thoughts as I go through the panels, speakers, and such.

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I'm M. Jackson Wilkinson, a technologist, designer, speaker, educator, and writer from Washington, DC. I work to make web sites that users and clients love, and work with the brilliant folks at Viget Labs. I'm from Philadelphia, went to Bowdoin College in Maine, root for the Phillies, and love to sing.

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