The SXSW Experience

by kartooner on March 6, 2006

In roughly 3 days I’ll be enroute to Austin, TX to take part in the SXSW (South by South­west) Inter­ac­tive con­fer­ence. I’m bound to be a bit over­whelmed by the fes­tiv­i­ties and elbow-rubbing par­ties, but I won’t lie, I’m pretty excited to meet (…)

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Hometown Grocers

by kartooner on March 3, 2006

There’s just some­thing about a local, mom and pop mar­ket that evokes that “home­town” feel­ing of nos­tal­gia that you don’t get from larger super­mar­ket chains. There’s also some stark dif­fer­ences between the shop­ping expe­ri­ence, mostly involv­ing cus­tomer ser­vice and atmos­phere. It’s (…)

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HowStuffWorks

by kartooner on March 1, 2006

At the movie the­atre this past week­end I spot­ted a decent-sized ban­ner for the ref­er­ence site, How­Stuff­Works, a site that’s been around for ages it seems. I remem­ber first hear­ing about the site a few years back and think­ing that Mar­shall Brain had a win­ner on (…)

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