Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue at SXSW 2011

My SXSW 3/13/11

My SXSW 3/13/11, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SA

Lots of great meetings with people today. I got a few photos.

Julien, CC, Jim, Chris, Eddie, Scott, Andy and lots of others.

SXSW IS PEOPLE.


Vimeo and Nokia Party in the Power Plant

Kris Krug at SXSW 2011

SXSW 2011 Saturday March 12, 2011 Report

Here are some moments captured from SXSW 2011 Saturday March 12, 2011:



Watch this CNN iReport on CNN.

A few stops from my day.


River view of Austin from the Hyatt



My first session, Social TV. This session needed a much larger room.

Speakers:
#SXSocialTV @fredgraver @lilacina @gavinpurcell @chloeS@moth



Capturing #SXSocialTV session on video with an iPad 2 First time I've ever seen that!


Mashable Highlights

People see iReports coming in and say "Hey, I have a story to tell too," and they send in reports. #sxsocialtv

"Give people parameters in requests for submissions." Lila King CNN iReport #sxsocialtv

"It's not about holding back stuff anymore. It's about sharing. Video clips. Before and aver the broadcast." @gavinpurcell #sxsocialtv

#sxsocialtv "Every tweet is a perfect little marketing message for your show." Sladden #sxsocialtv

"Second screen sidekick for TV shows." #sxsocialtv

Aaron Strout Speaks!

The Backspace w/ @schneidermike @rhappehttp://4sq.com/hPSIBu





Roan Wilson at #SXSW talking about his new movie Super. Looks amazing. Also stars Ellen Page, who was delayed for the session so Rainn had her talk to us via cellphone speakerphone.

"Shut Up Crime," Rainn Wilson's character in Crime.


"Know the difference between a filmmaker shot and an actor shot." James Gunn director of Super. #sxsw

"Louisiana smells like fresh baked cookies, strawberries and creme, and love," Rainn Wilson #sxsw

"If you think this movie is like Kick Ass, after walking out of the movie, I honestly think there is something wrong with you." James Gunn

CNN Grill at SXSW. I met with the CNN team and other iReporters to talk about a special shoot we are doing for SXSW.



CNN converts an existing restaurant into CNN Grill. Amazing at how they do this. Lunch with @andreaallen @hayekd and @jag35 Video!


CNN SXSW


CNN Grill SXSW


Panasonic GH2 w/ wide angle


Panasonic AF100

Interviewed by Cinema 5d at SXSW | United States | By Steve Garfield (stevegarfield) http://bit.ly/f5YXK6



Pepsi Max SXSW Video with a Special Guest [ SCREEN SHOT - VIDEO BELOW ]

My Pepsi Max video from #sxswhttp://keshot.com/en/postcard/pc.asp?s=T9031211141047&i=3606770 Check out my special guest. LOL






Steve Garfield Meets Bob Garfield at #sxsw


Wiley Author Party Wins!


Kris Krug

SXSW 2011 Friday March 11, 2011 Report

Great Jet Blue flight. The free in-flight Dunkin Donuts coffee was better than the cup I got IN the airport.



Nice to see, big crowds.

First Session: How Not To Be A Douchebag at SXSW with Amber Osborne and Scott Beale.



The guy at the door said the room is at capacity, but there are plenty of seats in here! So I guess he was being a Douchebag. Ironic.

Awesome Digital Photobooth ie: Fauxtobooth at IFC by Michael Sheriff of MVS Studio Inc.



You got an immediate print out.



The image went up on the big screen. And you could mail it to yourself.




BIG LINES: Apple Pop Up Store popped up to sell the new iPad 2 at 5:00 PM.




Streaming LIVE to the world. ;-)

I'm also doing some reporting for CNN iReport. Here are some moments from Day 1 at SXSW 2011:



Watch on CNN.

Music: Secrets in Stereo

SXSW 2011 TIPS [Updated with Video]

Airport Flyer $1
www.capmetro.org/riding/schedules.asp?f1=100
Free Ride: Chevy
sxsw.com/chevrolet/catch_a_chevy/
Austin Weather
www.weather.com/weather/5-day/Austin+TX+73301
IFC at SXSW
www.ifc.com/sxsw/
SXSW Pokes
sxswpokes.tumblr.com/
Live Streaming Keynotes at 2pm from 3/11-3/15 w/ Felicia Dayhttp://www.pepsico.com/sxsw

Sched
austin2011.sched.org/list/descriptions/
Schedule
schedule.sxsw.com/
Lanyrd the social conference directory
lanyrd.com/2011/sxsw/speakers/

Convore - Chat
convore.com/sxsw/

Parties
plancast.com/category/sxsw-parties
Sched Parties
austin2011.sched.org/2011-03-12/overview/type/unofficial+...
SXSW RSVP Roundup: Open Bar Edition
coolinaustin.tumblr.com/post/3623167173/sxsw-rsvp-roundup...

Update for those not going to SXSW:

LIVE STREAMING
PepsiCo will bring SXSW to audiences outside of Austin for the first time via livestreaming of SXSW keynotes and panels and additional PepsiCo Plugged-In Stage content. See it at www.pepsico.com/sxsw.

Watch SteveGarfield.tv every Thursday at 2 ET on The Pulse Network.

SXSW 2011: South By South Best:



IFC.com and BajillionHits.biz present How To Be South By South Best.

Apple Opening a Pop Up Store at SXSW

Apple Opening a Pop Up Store at SXSW, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SA

Photo Courtesy Google Maps

W 6th St & Congress Ave, Austin, TX

Before It Even Begins, Apple Wins SXSW

Melissa Pierce

Melissa Pierce, Photo by Kris Krug kk+. CC BY-NC-SA

Merry Media-making Scalawags on the road to SXSW with the Jones Soda RV

My American Idol Top Six for 3/9/11

My American Idol Top Six for 3/9/11, originally uploaded by stevegarfield.

Casey Abrams, James Durbin, Thia Megia
Lauren Alaina, Pia Toscano, Stefano Langone.

One note: Stefano, open your eyes.

Images Courtesy of American Idol

Get Seen, now available as an Audio Book!

Get Seen, now available as an Audio Book!

Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business (Plus URL) [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition]

Awesome @JESS3 Graphic: The Message is the Messenger

Awesome @JESS3 Graphic. See it full size and read the blog post at The Message is the Messenger.

Here's a detailed view of the Content/Media Section:


Content/Media Section of The Message is the Messenger [Infographic]

I'm psyched to be poster neighbors with Jennifer Van Grove, Ann Handley, David Meerman Scott, Joe Chernov and Amber Naslund!

Joe Chernov, Director of Content for Eloqua, just published a JESS3 infographic designed to tease / complement a SXSW panel called, "Media Tomorrow: The Message is the Messenger."

The panel is about the rise in personal brands as a trusted form of media.

Joe says in an email, "the panel is essentially contemporizing the Marshall McLuhan aphorism ("the medium is the message") to reflect democratized media."

I'll have to go to this panel to hear how he gets from The Medium is the Message to The Message is the Messenger.

My brain already hurts.

More:
Twitter list of everyone on the infographic

TAGS:
adam d'angelo, adam singer, Amber Naslund, Andre Blackman, andy beal, Ann Handley, Augie Ray,baratunde thurston, becky brown, beth knater, bonin bough, Brad McCarthy, brandee barker, brett petersel, brian halligan, Brian Solis, brian wong, brooke morland, caterina fake, CC Chapman, Charlene Li, Chris Anderson, dan martell, danah boyd, data visualization, David Armano, david griner, David Meerman Scott, dennis crowley,dharmesh shah, digital media, Eloqua, esteban contreras, fred wilson, gary vaynerchuck, gevrina sefaraj, Gina Bianchini, Guy Kawasaki, infographic, jason calacanis, jeffrey dachis, jen nedeau, Jennifer Aaker, Jennifer Van Grove, Jeremiah Owyang, JESS3, jesse thomas, jessica jackley, Joe Chernov, joe pulizzi, john lovett, Jolie O'Dell,Josh bernoff, joshua levy, justin levy, kara swisher, kevin systrom, Laura Fitton, lee odden, Leslie Bradshaw, leslie poston, Mack Collier, mario sundar, Media, medium is the message, michael wu, new media, Nisha Chittal, ory orkolloh, Paul Gillin, Perry Hewitt, personal brand, peter kim. liz philips, R Ray Wang, Rachel Skylar, Robert Michael Murray, rohit bhargava, Sarah Evans, scott kirsner, Scott Monty, Seth Godin, seth priebatsch, sevansstrategy, SHIFT,Shireen Mitchell, Sloane Berrent, Social Media, South By Southwest, stephanie schierholz, Steve Farnsworth, Steve Garfield, Steve Woods, SxSW, The Blog Tree, The Content Grid, The History of SXSW, Todd Defren, Valeria Maltoni,Vivek Wadhwa, zach Hofer-Shall, Zainab Salbi

Where I'll Be At SXSW 2011. Most likely.

Just got this in my email:

Are you heading to SXSW this year? Am flying tomorrow, would be great to meet up if you are around, haven’t seen you for ages :-)

This is one of the reasons why I love SXSW.

It's the summer camp experience that I never had.



Day Camp
When I was little I went to day camp. I didn't want to go, but my parents made me.

I didn't learn how to play baseball, didn't learn how to swim, and didn't make any lasting friendships.

I only went for one year.

The things I remember:

1. Rowing a boat
2. Shooting a bow and arrow
3. Cooking a hot dog on a stick

There were much better family vacations after that experience, where I did learn how to swim and made great friendships, but baseball and I have never gotten along.



SXSW
Then came my SXSW experience.



I learned a lot about video at SXSW Film, I learned how to schedule my time and how NOT to schedule it, and I made lifelong friends.

There are very good sessions at SXSW, and I encourage you to go to sessions where you don't know much about the topic. You will learn some things.

But...

The most important reason to go to SXSW is people.

SXSW is people!



My Schedule
So if you want to meet at SXSW, here's My Schedule:



Here's my Plancast page.

This schedule is subject to change.

Take a peek at what's next:




Really, My Schedule
Here are the events that I am definitely going to:

It's Not TV, It's Social TV (SXSW panel)
500 E Cesar Chavez St, Austin, Texas, US
Saturday, March 12, 2011, 9:30am

With Fred Graver (Travel Channel), Lila King (CNN iReport), Gavin Purcell (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon), Chloe Sladden (Twitter), and Timothy Shey (Next New Networks).

How is social media changing the TV experience for good? Over the past ten years, we've seen television become truly interactive, from SMS voting on American Idol to real-time...

Wiley Author Party
Cedar Door Bar - Come early.
Saturday, March 12, 2011, 6-9:00pm

We had so much fun last year, we're doing it again...

Wiley Publishing and Austin's Cedar Door have paired up to host 3 hours of free food and drinks in appreciation of our authors and the fantastic group of readers that support them.

Find your way to the corner of Brazos and 2nd Street on Saturday evening and celebrate with us! We hope...

Get Seen: Book Signing
Location: Upstairs in the B&N bookstore in the Convention Center.
Tuesday 11:30 AM

Steve Garfield at SXSW: 6 Easy Ways to Produce Compelling Video (That You Hadn't Thought of Before)
Austin Convention Center
Ballroom E
500 E Cesar Chavez St
Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 4:00pm

Future15
Your video content is 50 times more likely to appear on the first page of search results than your standard text- based content, according to a recent Forrester Research report. Can you see why it's important to include video as part of your content mix?...

FREE Copies of Get Seen
On Friday, March 11th My book, Get Seen, is going to be part of the #ThankYouEconomy scavenger hunt with #WIDFY. They are giving away FREE copies Get Seen details here http://WIDFY.com/sxsw



You could always buy a copy too:


Say Hi!
If you see me, say hi.

We might not see each other again.

I really don't want to see a tweet that says:

"@stevegarfield just walked past me in line."

"I just saw @stevegarfield, but he looked busy."

It's ok to come up and interrupt to say a quick hello. I want to meet you!

Lots of my schedule is fluid. This year I've been swamped with off site events and still need to spend some time looking at the schedule.

See you in Austin!

Behind-The-Scenes at Today on http://Today.com

Behind-The-Scenes at Today on http://Today.com, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SA

New today: http://today.com/

Behind the scenes, online, while the Today Show is live.

Cool.

I love this stuff.

Update:

I hate this.

Too much Kathie Lee this early in the morning.

I can't take it.

Everyone is SO excited about broadcast live behind the scenes. It's not such a television breakthrough. The Early Show on CBS has been doing it for a while, and as for live streaming to the web, unfiltered and unmediated content, well myself and others been doing that for years.



Love you Ann!

Mike Proulx writes, 2-Screen Convergence: The Today Show Synced Broadcast/Webcast:

A few things I was thinking as I was watching:

- As a big fan of the show, I enjoyed seeing the complexity of what goes into it
- It was near impossible to pay attention to both screens at the same time
- I prefer the 2nd screen to compliment the broadcast instead of competing with it
- There’s got to be a way for show sponsors to gain benefit from the web stream

As much as the geek in me loves (and goes out of his way to participate in) any form of TV + Web convergence, the last 2 bullets, above, are key considerations as we all move forward in a world where our screens are converging.

Agreed with #2. The webcast was way too noisy.

Facebook Comments: Can you At Least Maintain the Formatting?

Facebook Comment on Techcrunch:



Facebook Comment on Techcrunch on Facebook:


Also:
Can you add permalinks to each comment?

Boston Parking Meter Stupid Cards

Oh man.


Meter watching by moriza, on Flickr CC BY

Now The City of Boston Transportation Department is coming out with Boston Parking Meter Smart Cards:

The second upcoming change to the City’s parking meter system will be the implementation of a pilot credit card program at 144 single space meters in Boston’s Financial District. Drivers who park at multi-space meters already have the option of paying by credit card and this pilot program will provide drivers who park at these 144 single space meters with the credit card option as well. The pilot program will be executed in February.

Finally, the Transportation Department will also soon be unveiling Boston Parking Meter Smart Cards. The Smart Cards will be reloadable debit cards designed for use at single space meters throughout the City, with the exception of those single space meters included in the credit card pilot program. When available, Parking Meter Smart Cards will be sold at the Office of the Parking Clerk in Room 224, Boston City Hall and at the BTD Tow Lot at 200 Frontage Road. Eventually, they will be available for purchase online.

Commissioner Tinlin concluded, “BTD is working hard to provide Boston drivers with the best modern technology available to ensure that parking on local streets is simple, convenient and affordable. Most people simply do not carry around fistfuls of quarters any longer and our goal is to see that Boston’s on-street public parking system adapts to this reality.”

What can I say about this?

No one goes to City Hall or the Tow Lot. This is a joke.

Does The City of Boston Transportation Department talk to the MBTA?

Reusable, Rechargeable CharlieCards & Tickets.

Aren't regular credit and debit cards good enough?

Waste. Of. Time.

That's Not Right.

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Boston Parking Meters: Three Year Test Was Success, Let's Start All Over

Today's Boston Globe reports: For parking, a choice of coins or plastic, Test program puts credit card readers on some prime downtown meters:

City officials decided to launch the pilot program following the success of the multispace meters offering credit card payment on Newbury and Boylston streets in the Back Bay and in the Bulfinch Triangle downtown, which were put in place three years ago, according to Transportation Commissioner Thomas J. Tinlin....

He said officials will have to see how the meters respond to the full range of New England’s punishing weather before deciding whether to proceed from the free pilot program — with materials provided by the San Diego-based IPS Group Inc. — to a permanent program, which would be put out to bid.

Why would you need to test a NEW system, after "the success of the multispace meters"?

That's not right.

Boston Media Makers 03/06/11 - Photos!

Boston Media Makers

Next meeting April 3, 2011.

Charlie Sheen LIVE on Ustream 3/5/11 [UPDATED]

First 4:30 with chat room along the side. Full video below courtesy of Mashable and Ustream.

109,484 viewers at 10:22 ET.

http://www.ustream.tv/charliesheen

100,721 viewers at 10:33 ET.

98,146 viewers at 10:37 ET.

95,600 viewers at 10:39 ET.

93,290 viewers at 10:44 ET.

91,525 viewers at 10:47 ET.

@stevegarfield I think @charliesheen should read #getseen http://amzn.to/i5FlQ6 -- maybe you can send him a signed copy!less than a minute ago via webMike Proulx
McProulx

I think he can afford to buy a copy. ;-)

How to do online video:



Charlie Sheen’s Recorded Ustream Video Now Available [UPDATED]



Video streaming by Ustream

SNL Charlie Sheen Cold Open was better that the real Charlie Sheen on Ustream.


Duh! Winning! 3/5/11

@CharlieSheen's Ustream.tv Show #SheensCorner

@CharlieSheen's Ustream.tv Show #SheensCorner, originally uploaded by stevegarfield. CC BY-NC-SA

1,488 people in @CharlieSheen's Ustream.tv Chat Room + the show doesn't start for 4 hours! #winning #SheensCorner www.ustream.tv/channel/sheen-s-korner

Amazon.com's Visa Cardholder Unfriendly Rewards Redemption Procedure

I just got a cry for help from a friend asking how to redeem his points in Amazon.com's Visa Cardholder Rewards Program.

It's not easy.

It used to work better. When you spent enough, you'd get an Amazon Gift Certificate in the mail. You could use it to buy anything on Amazon.com after keying in the Gift Certificate number online.

Side note:
It would have been a better program if the reward amount was directly credited to your Amazon Account, but that was never going to happen. They like it when gift certificates go unused.

Then they made it worse.

Instead of automatically sending out the certificates, now you have to go online to redeem them.

Then they mail them to you, and then you key them in online.

This new program introduces another impediment between you redeeming you earning and then redeeming your rewards.

So for my friend, here's 9 Steps to redeem your Amazon.com's Visa Cardholder Rewards online:

1. Log on to your Account
2. Click Amazon.com Rewards Credit Card
3. Click Redeem your rewards
4. Click $25 Amazon.com® gift certificate
5. Click Add to Cart
6. Click Check Out
7. Click Next
8. Click Next
9. Click Order Reward Items

That's Not Right.

Just credit my Amazon.com account directly instead of making me go online to redeem the award, so that you can mail me a certificate, that I then have to key into a computer.

Mailing me the Amazon.com award certificate, and making me go online again to key in the awards certificate number, isn't right.

More info:

How do I redeem my points?

You can redeem your points by logging onto chase.com/amazonrewards or by calling 1-888-247-4080. Redemptions include Amazon.com gift cards, cash, a selection gift cards, airline tickets and other options. Restrictions apply. View Rewards Program Rules and Regulations [PDF]