The nerd bacchanal is upon us yet again, and we’re throwing our pocket protectors to the wind and heading down to TX! What am I looking forward to? Well, the food’s alright, and there are some pretty good parties, I’ll get to see some very fine folks again, catch some great presentations, and maybe even get my mind cracked open again. And since we’re all about making sites with Drupal now we’ll be looking for like minded folks to discuss hook_menu and the finer points of block usability. Excelsior!

We’re bringing some crap to give away!

Last year I went to south by alone and had a great time, but I’m really psyched this year to bring along our designer John Refano, and some stickers. You heard right! Now your laptop won’t have to go naked anymore. These circular bits of colored and gluey awesomeness will stick to anything, be it your lappy, bumper, jean jacket, next to a unicorn in your ‘memories’ book, or even on your cat. It’s up to you! and all you have to do is say “Howdy” to one of us. It’s that easy!

Here are some likely spots to find us:

1. Design is in the Details
2. Filching Design: When the Shoe Fits
3. Rome, Sweet Rome: Ancient Lessons in Design
4. Sponsored Panel: Knowing the Audience: Improving Communication Between Artists and Fans
5. The Contextual Web
6. The Weird Turn Pro: Crowdsourcing For Creatives
7. Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Great Design Hurts
8. 10 Things We’ve Learned at 37signals
9. A General Theory of Creative Relativity
10. Social Marketing Strategies Metrics, Where Are They?
11. Social Network Coups: The Users are Revolting!
12. Worst Website Ever: That’s So Crazy, It Just Might Work
13. Everyone’s A Design Critic
14. Scope Creep and Other Villains
15. Social Design Strategies
16. Friend Me! Vote for Me! Donate Now!
17. Magic and Mental Models: Using Illusion to Simplify Designs
18. Logos: Why They’re Irrelevant and Can Actually Hurt Your Business
19. SXSW Clicks: Web Designers
20. Data as Art: Musical, Visual Web APIs
21. SEO 3.0: Optimizing Search & Social for 2008 and Beyond
22. Core Conversation: Design Metrics: Better Than ‘Because I Said So’
23. Core Conversation: Designing for “Oh No!”
24. Core Conversation: Five Things Elite Designers Should Stop Saying
25. Bootstrapping through Entrepreneur Collaboration Networks
26. Pimp My Non Profit - Real Non-Profits Kicking Ass with Online Technology
27. Core Conversation: Examining the Different Ways We Can Work
28. Core Conversation: Specialization vs. Doing it All
29. Secrets of JavaScript Libraries
30. 10 Tips for Managing a Creative Environment

Megaphones!

But really I’m just going down there in hopes of seeing this guy again.

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