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Berlinblase goes to Austin for some SXSW action

It’s day 2 of SXSW 2010 and we’re kind of late to announce that bubblers are attending the conference this year. Peter and myself are here in Austin for supposedly one of the best web conferences out there. And now we know why SXSW is such a big deal every year. It’s buzzing everywhere. People are passionate, excited and the whole thing just feels right somehow.

The combination is a killer. An incredible amount of prominent, very able speakers, perfect, summerly weather, a wifi that seems no trouble to handle the thousands of attendants and of course the evening parties that seems to come up in every conversation at one point or another. Jeff Jarvis tweeted today that SXSW is more of a tribal gathering than a conference and there is certainly something to it. People do talk about business, yes, but it also feels like the almost always distributed hive mind is coming centralizing itself in Austin for a few days to be even more productive than usual. It feels right, it feels exciting to be here and there is a lot to learn.

Just take danah boyd’s keynote today. It was incredibly articulate, precise and charismatic – her thoughts and privacy are very important and will be discussed vividly over the next days, weeks and month. It’s important to think about those issues, because companies like Facebook, Google and the rest of them grew at such a fast pace that gives them the assumption that what they are doing must be right since so many people are using their services. In fact, it’s the complexity of the system and the fact that most users aren’t informed sufficiently that leads to those assumptions. danah presented some valuable insight into the mindset of random people that shows very clearly: privacy is not dead.

We are – as you probably assumed already – not going to live blog from the SXSW. We’re here to gain insight into the US sphere and to learn from the experience. But we will blog about SXSW as much as possible.

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Berlinblase goes Posterous

It is time for some DLD action people and we’re excited to be able to serve you up with the latest action the conference. Five bubblers will be whooooshing through the halls for your – and our! – entertainment, but sadly we can not be everywhere. Resourceful as we are, we did think of a solution for that problem too.

The Berlinblase Posterous will be a place to gather all sorts of content for us, but we’re kindly asking you to submit your content there as well, if you think that it is interesting, funny or in any way relevant. Just send your photo, video or even text to this email address: posterous@berlinblase.posterous.com – it will land in our queue, but we will try to process the good stuff as quickly as we can. It would be great, if we could collect as much content from the conference participants – spread the word about our posterous!

Note: We would like – from time to time – to include your content into our live coverage. That means: we will be integrating your content into the DLD live blog. If you are ok with that than just submit your content, if that is not ok for you, please note so in your submission post to the Berlinblase Posterous and we will not be using your content for the live coverage. Also: if you have a special request how we should annotate your content to you, please also note that in your submission. Thanks!

P.S.: It would be great, if you could send your photos to flickr & co. as well. Don’t forget to tag them (DLD Conference).

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DLD10 – Behind the scenes

Working under chandeliers #medialounge #DLD10

We are at DLD10 for the next three days to do the official live blogging. But in true Berlinblase-style, we will also keep you updated on all the stuff happening behind the scenes and in the halls with this Scribblelive event.

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The Link Guide to Munich DLD10

We are finishing the last steps of our preparation and are looking forward for three days of liveblogging in Munich. On Saturday, the nerd express starts its journey from Offenburg via Karlsruhe to Munich. As usual we collected many links and information about and around the upcoming DLD Conference for you.

If you have something to add drop us a line in the comments, thank you.

Photo by jaime.silva under CC

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Coming up: DLD10

Photo by Andrea VascellariCC

The bubblers, missing in action for quite some time, are back in business!

And we’re coming back big! Our „Live, raw’n’uncut“ style will return for the annual DLD conference in Munich, Germany. We gratefully thank the organizing team at Burda for the invitation. Here is the official press release. We’ll be live-blogging, tweeting, flickring and then some more social communicating for DLD 2010. Starting now, we’ll be preparing by reading up on the topics and speakers and geting our gear and gadgets ready for prime time.

What you can do to prepare?

Watch out for the DLD iPhone App (the program will be available after the official release), subscribe the official Feed of the DLD and maybe our feed. Following the DLD and berlinblase Twitter accounts could be an option, too. We are working, as usual, on a “Link Guide to Munich” (Paris, Berlin). Planing a meetup? Let us know and we’ll feature you.

So stay tuned and check back soon with the bubblers, keeping you posted.

Cheers, the bubblers

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