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The Austin Connection

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While this is the fifteenth airline leg so far this year, the current episode of ‘Where’s Ewan This Week?’ has nothing to do with the Eurovision Song Contest (okay, almost nothing, Manga are in town and I might bump into the boys in a Turkish bar). I’m en route to Austin, Texas, for my ninth trip to South by Southwest. This is actually a strange feeling. The last few trips (Finland, Estonia, and especially Latvia) have felt like real adventures, to new locations (or in the case of Helsinki, seeing far more of the city and the surrounding suburbs than

Do you still need a blog to blog?

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Not generally, but for people like me? We communicate our lives, by necessity not choice, in phrases, pictures, soundbites. We narrate our days in imagery and our exploits in links. Maybe it’s time to try a new approach, to move Feastcraft to Posterous or Tumblr, retain the URL, and move from once-a-week long-form to twice-daily curation of images, links, videos, and the occasional rant. There’s been changes around these parts as well (more on that after a month of numbers and stats, then I’ll talk about it), but Jonas Luster lays out the thinking that many of us have had.