Yes, it is that time of year again, time for SXSW Interactive and the 2009 Weblog Awards! The Bloggies are the web's longest-running non-profit, reader voted blog awards. The votes are in and the Weblog Awards ceremony will be held on Monday, March 16th at 12:30pm (Central Time, GMT-5) at the SXSW T...

I've been a Sam Raimi fan since the very first time I laid my fingers on the creepy dark blue Thorn-EMI VHS case pictured right here -----> ) From the awesome "Evil" trilogy to the very clever Darkman and the very underrated The Quick and the Dead, right up to A Simple Plan, For Love of the Game ...

I’m in the USA for the first time - just had my first american breakfast (burp) which also included sightings of Linda Gray and Larry Hagman - you know that you’re in Texas when… Before yesterday, I hadn’t been on a plane for more than 4 hours and never been on anything bigge...

Explode Into Colors is a band out of Olympia featuring “three weird aunts”– one of which is Lisa of longtime Catbird favorite Kickball (the other members are Claudia Meza of Japanther and Heather Treadway of Tender Forever). Kill Rock Stars will be putting out a single later this s...

I've never been to SXSW, so it's a little hard for me to understand how exactly the whole thing works from the generally ecstatic coverage the event receives, especially from online sources. As far as I can tell, attendees wander from jam-packed showcase to jam-packed showcase, largely to see bands ...

Donewaiting.com’s 2009 SXSW coverage brought to you by Energizer’s Energi to Go Okay, lot’s going on. Hard to keep up. Don’t forget Showlist Austin and SCHED* for all your SXSW prep work. RSVP for the Fader Fort here. No info of line-up or location yet. Rumors continue to fly...

We’ve been through the schedule for the upcoming South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival, a few times. In fact between our own scouring of the schedule and the countless emails from publicists, producers and directors — which we like because they make us think that people like us —...

For noobs, SXSW Interactive can feel like the first day at a new high school. The five-day event is thick with primordial webs of friendships, rivalries, and social strata which, to the new comer, are as simultaneously palpable and inscrutable as the lunch room hierarchies of yore. Rest assured howe...

Well I say liveblog, more notes that I’m making on the EEE as I fly, hence thenewer posts are at the bottom of this one. I’ll uploaded them when I get somewhere that’s not 6 miles up in the air, free Wi-fi enabled planes this 777 is not. (All times PST). 0500: The American Airlines...

Thought I’d drop in here today again and do a little show n’ tell.  I posted here yesterday, on the Beach Blog,  all about the WordPress goodies that will be available at the ServerBeach exhibit booth at SXSW - all of it free and fabulous! It’s Wednesday (actually, VERY early Wed...