There's really far, far too much to blog in the (looking at watch (ACK!)) two minutes before the next panel. Okay, I'll default to the quickie bulletpoint hitlist (in rought chronological order), to be fleshed out later:

• I found out Friday that I got accepted into the Berkeley SIMS Masters Program as well as CMU, so that adds another beanie spinner to my thinking cap.
• I met up with Ernie and Min Jung without incident and we flew to Austin by way of San Diego. We watched Ferris Beuller's Day Off on the flihgt ot Austin on my Powerbook (realizing halfway through that the 'one-set-of-headphones' problem could be overcome by turning on subtitles (duh!))
• I got invited to speak on a panel! SXSW has, at the last minute, added a "Humor on the Internet" panel for Monday (tomorrow), and they've invited me to be a panelist. This should be a hoot!
• Weblogger parties Friday and Satruday, I got to meet in person Brad from Bradlands, Leia from leiascofield.com (too lazy to write linking code right now), Megnut, and like 30 others.
• My whole view of blogging has been dramatically changed. Writing into my own screen and seeing that people actually read it is completely different than hanging out with people who know me and who I know solely through this (im/ultra)personal method of divulgence.
• I have a lot more inspiration for making new projects (I have about five twenty that I want to do) knowing that people really are interested in them not just for their in-the-moment entertainment value, but for the deeper issues and movements they bring up and reflect.
• The web awards ceremony is tonight! After that are the frog and fray parties. I'm the wuss of our group, not going raving or clubbing until 3am, actually getting some sleep (unlike Ernie who, as he writes this post next to me as I type, is going on 20 minutes sleep in the last 40 hours.

I'm forgetting a lot. I'm gathering so much data, both socilogical and experimental, that it's going to take a few days away from the conference for me to write it all into the blogging manifesto I feel bubbling up within me. I'll post again as soon as I'm able (we have an ethernet port in the hotel room, but I think it's all a facade).

Until then, hi from Austin! I'll talk to you soon!