The Jeff Beckham Weblog

A whopping 683 panel ideas are on the initial lineup of the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival Panel Picker, which launched today.
This is the second year for the Panel Picker functionality, a tool that allows the web community to give feedback on the ideas they feel are most appropriate for the 2008 festival. Event [...]

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The folks over at the Bivings Report have ranked the Austin American-Statesman’s website among their Top 10 Best Newspaper Websites in the United States.
Statesman.com came in at No. 8. The rankings said:
We really like the unique layout and coloring of this site’s homepage. We’re also giving this site points for allowing anyone to blog and [...]

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In addition to the occasional post here, I’ve begun writing at Austinist. Editor Allen Chen and the crew sent out a call for contributors and I was more than happy to be asked to participate. I’ll be writing mostly about Austin sports, but will slip in other posts, too.
My debut was today, with a post [...]

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Guy Kawasaki provides a photographic tour of his recent visit to the headquarters of Trek Bicycles, and there’s a section of particular interest to folks in these parts. In the atrium of the main building, there’s a Lance Armstrong history wall, lined with a bike to represent each of his seven Tour de France victories. [...]

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My South by Southwest panel, “Designing for Convergent Devices”, is now available as a podcast. It was nice for me to revisit that and appreciate the great job my fellow panelists did. Thanks also to the SXSW crew who have done yeoman’s work getting audio from all the panels online.
Speaking of SXSW, the panel [...]

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