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BlogWorld isn’t SXSW (and Vice Versa)

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  • Posted on March 1st, 2010 by User ImageDeb Ng

In the last few days I’ve been seeing a lot of “BlogWorld or SXSW?” type Tweets. Most of them are from folks who can only afford to attend one conference this year and aren’t sure where their money is best spent. While both BlogWorld and South by Southwest are “must attends” for much of the [...]

We Have Bloggers and Blog World Heads to Texas!

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  • Posted on March 7th, 2009 by User ImageJim Turner

In case you haven’t noticed, I wanted to introduce you to a couple of new bloggers here on our site that will be providing some content.  I want to introduce you to Jane Goodwin and Tyler Knott Gregson.  Jane and Tyler are prolific bloggers and will be talking about all things blogging and new media.  [...]

Ewan Spence Interviews me at SxSW

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  • Posted on March 15th, 2008 by User ImageRick

If you were to charge there is a certain amount of navel gazing in the blogosphere and at events like SxSW you would be right. The fact is when events like SxSW and BlogWorld happen it gives us new media content creators a chance to meet up with old friends, make some new ones and [...]

Darren Rowse Interview at SxSW

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  • Posted on March 13th, 2008 by User ImageRick

Meeting Darren Rowse of Problogger was one of the highlights of SxSW for me. If you want to make money with your blog then you need to make problogger.net a regular read. After attending his panel Online Advertising for Newbies Darren agreed to a short interview out in the all. Here it is:

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BlogHaus at SxSW

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  • Posted on March 9th, 2008 by User ImageRick

SxSW interactive officially opened registration yesterday morning and had some preliminary panels yesterday afternoon but today things really kicked off when the BlogHaus (sponsored by AMD, b5 media, and Podtech) opened. The blogeratti was out in force and social media gurus were elbow to elbow in the jam packed room. Robert Scoble, Chris Heuer, [...]