The Mindjet Labs

If you have any interest in Expression Blend or how I made these journals , you should vote for the two panels that I've submitted for the South by Southwest (SxSW) 2009 interactive festival : Extreme Expression Blend for Silverlight Designers - as many...(read more)

When I was at South by Southwest, I did lots of talking about Silverlight.  Here is an interview that I did for Web2Point0.TV about Silverlight: http://web2point0.tv/video.php?id=227...(read more)

I read Billy Bragg's editorial in the New York Times about how musicians make money in the age of the Internet.  I first heard Billy Bragg twenty years ago perform live in Northampton, Massachusetts when I was a high school student attending Deerfield...(read more)

I've just survived my first South by Southwest in Austin.  It was a great time - a bit long for me though - I was at the whole festival from March 7-16 (interactive, film, and music).  The highlight of the festival for me was yesterday, starting...(read more)

Working with UVNTV.com , I've been increasingly exposed to Hip Hop music so I decided to attend a panel discussion at SxSW: Widening Hip Hop's Global Reach .   Davey D from the Bay Area lead the panel - very interesting.  One of the big takeaways...(read more)

"It's making it easier to make things worse." Lou Reed just said this commenting on digital media quaility: MP3s and YouTube at the SxSW keynote. I think that our ability with Silverlight to create great HD-quality experiences can really fill...(read more)

Having been a fan of Lou Reed for years, I am now in a filled room listening to a keynote interview with him.  Very exciting....(read more)

One of the ways in which I'm recording South by Southwest (SxSW) is through my journal, a leather bound handmade one crafted by Iona Handcrafted Books in Austin.  Here is a page from yesterday: The sketch in the upper right is of the Music opening...(read more)

Last week I was in Las Vegas for Microsoft's annual Mix conference, where, like all conferences, you get a badge and some sort of clip or lanyard.  The Mix team was very smart in making a dual-use lanyard that you could use to hang a Zune 8GB from...(read more)

Friday night I said goodbye to Mix, got on a plane from Las Vegas, and said hello to Austin, where I'm going to spend the next week at South by Southwest , the annual interactive, music, and film festival.  So yesterday was my first day at my first...(read more)