Jeff Beckham

Texas Monthly won 11 awards at the 22nd Annual National City and Regional Magazine Awards competition last week, including including top honorsvin excellence in writing, excellence in design, cover and special issues.
The magazine came in just behind Los Angeles magazine in number of overall awards, and the LA mag also won gold in general excellence [...]

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What is Pecha Kucha? It’s a Japanese term for “chit-chat”, and it’s a grown-up show and tell for people who love design.
Pecha Kucha nights have been gaining popularity across the globe, and Austin will host its first event on May 10. Presenters show their work in a very tight format - 20 slides, 20 seconds [...]

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Giveaway Eye Drops Burn Gizmodo Editor: Gizmodo’s Matt Buchanan has a nasty experience with Rhoto Eye Drops. Folks were handing these out on the street outside of the convention center at South By Southwest. I’m glad I passed.
Good News for Southwest Austin: Austinist comes through with great news for the neighborhood, with an update on [...]

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Austin realtors Steve and Sylvia Crossland were featured today by Steven Levitt on the author’s Freakonomics blog for a post they wrote asking whether street names matter when selling a house.
Levitt gives thanks to “achen” for the heads-up on the Crossland’s post. I suspect that’s Allen Chen of Austnist.

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USA Today’s consumer-created success
In one month, USA Today’s pages per visit have doubled and site registrations are up 380%. This comes after the paper added social networking features from Austin company Pluck.
Cisco: Scion Is #1 e-Tail Site
Scion has 80 percent brand recognition among consumers 35 and younger, according to a Cisco study (via MediaPost), [...]

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This article in The Economist highlights a study that suggests that ostriches are either the descendants of dinosaurs or actual dinosaurs themselves.
This comes as no surprise to me, and validates my fear of giant, flightless birds.

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Here are a couple of things that have caught my eye in the past couple of weeks while I’ve been away. These and more are available on the linkblog.

Kare.com - The website of Susan Kare, who designed many of the early Macintosh graphics. (via Signal vs. Noise).
Drinks with Dell - Jeff Jarvis, in town for [...]

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I’ve been away for the last couple of weeks, serving jury duty in district civil court. I won’t say much about the case here, other than that it was a medical malpractice case involving a woman who died from a rare blood disease. The trial was both emotionally and intellectually taxing, and I think I [...]

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This blows my mind. My current favorite band meets my all-time musical hero at the Starland Ballroom.
Riverboat Gamblers’ guitarist Ian MacDougall is blogging about the band’s latest tour. At a gig in New Jersey, they discover that Bruce Springsteen is in the audience and that the Boss’ son is a fan of the band. Ian [...]

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Just checked out the latest stats from my Google Reader trends:
From your 134 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 17,032 items, starred 2 items, and shared 20 items.
I need to learn to share more.
Check out what I’ve shared so far in my linkblog.

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