Category: March 06 Mega Trip

Kudos From Others ETech Coverage

Posted on March 14, 2006March 16, 2006 by Ewan Spence

Now this is both humbling and high-5 territory at the same time. Watching the blogosphere ETech coverage in the downtime between sessions at SXSW (hint, there’s not a lot of downtime!) I came across this paragraph of praise for attendees over at Attention Trust. Bruce Sterling was refreshingly contrarian and had at least one killer line. Dick Hardt reinforced his status as the Jedi master of PowerPoint. The fascinating R0ml Lefkowitz combined some audacious ideas with a natural showman’s sensibility (right down to the red clown nose.) Clay Shirky, simply enough, was perhaps the most cogent speaker there. And plenty

The First Rule About Robot Club Is…

Posted on March 12, 2006March 12, 2006 by Ewan Spence

…Americans have never heard of Spaced, so the irony of organising an ‘illegal’ Robot Wars (Battlebots) ‘demonstration’ at an undisclosed location in Austin for SXSW and BarCampAustin attendees was probably lost on them. In any case much merriment was had and, indeed, there was ‘no smoking.’

Flickr Goodies From ETech

Posted on March 10, 2006March 16, 2006 by Ewan Spence

This works on so many levels! Congrats to Privateye on the words – had me chuckling while I pack up after Etech (thoughts soon) to move over to SXSW.

I’m The Seer…

Posted on March 9, 2006 by Ewan Spence

…he’s a werewolf, and they are villiagers. In actual fact the truth was he’s the seer, they’re werewolves, and I’m playing an insane villiager. Last night at ETech saw an awesome single round of Werewolf. It pretty much guarantees that in any subsequent game at ETech I’ll get lynched in the first round, but if you want the memorable laughs, you gotta make sacrifices.

The Little Green Bag of BarCampLA

Posted on March 8, 2006March 8, 2006 by Ewan Spence

Fun, in a relaxing, almost stress-free way, would be the best way to describe BarCampLa, which happened this Sunday, the day before ETech. The warehouse / loft /stuid of Little Radio, in downtown LA, would be the perfect setting for replicating Reservoir Dogs. It’s a lovely un-conference space, with a large main room and two side rooms. I say rooms, it was much mroe open plan. I set up the podcasting ‘studio’ towards the front of the building (in the sunlight) and started the recording. In total there are twelve recordings. They’re up at The Tech Conference Show over at

I’m Not In Chicago Any More

Posted on March 8, 2006March 8, 2006 by Ewan Spence

…but try telling my body clock that. For some strange reason, my body clock seems to be looked in to Chicago time, which is two hours ahead of the West Coast. Not good walking up at 5.30am in the morning… Whats the betting that I’ll sort this out just as I leave and go back to Austin, Texas for SXSW which IS two hours behind San Diego.