On my last day at SxSWi, the halls were completely taken over by the rockers. Getting around got a little hard to do, so instead of hanging in the halls like usual, I took off to the AMD sponsored Bloghaus, the difficult to find hang out of Internet A Listers. I met some of the best people at BlogHaus - Tris Hussey , of One by One Media from Victoria and Phillip Jeffery from Vancouver as well as “Internet all stars” like Robert Scoble, Guy Kawasaki and Violet Blue. Turns out, the halls were a good hang out, but Bloghaus was better. Good enough that I didn’t attend many other panels.
As the afternoon wrapped up and we were told we had to head out, Robert Scoble rushed in and announced that we were all going for real Austin BBQ. HP had chartered a bus to take us all out to the Salt Lick, which has legendary BBQ. The buses didn’t show, and instead, HP ordered taxis for the more than 40 people and prepaid each $75 to take us to the restaurant.
We had no i...
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