I was only ultra-briefly passing through, so I’m depending on the intarweb to try to sift through the enormous amount of good stuff.

• O’Reilly ETECH05 Wiki – surprisingly uncomprehensive coverage – comparing the % of usefulness of sources requiring manual effort (wiki, trackback) vs automated (technorati, google searches) and you can see what a big difference there is. Of course, searching by the etech tags won’t work so well this time next year (until we get better temporal ranging)
• O’Reilly ETECH05 Aggregator
• Technorati Tag: etech
• del.icio.us/tag/etech

Notes:

• BloggingETech.com – webloginc’s coverage
• Day 1 notes PDFs from Tablet PC
• Jeff Clavier’s ETECH05 notes
• Phil Windley’s Technometria notes
• Voidstar’s notes
• justinsomnia’s notes – wow, nice layout!
• SimplyBlog notes, see also Master of 500 Hats
• Wanadoo ETECH notes
• Reemer.com notes
• Young Geek’s Illustrated Primer
• Warwick: all blogs from ETech category
• Etech05 – Wednesday Highlights – see links for rest of the notes
• Meg’s links
• All the Pages are My Days: eTech Archives
• ActionContents notes
• Andrew Wooster’s nextthing.org ETECH notes
• False Positives: More O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
• Many2Many: Folksonomies @ ETECH
• Cory’s notes on Life Hacks Live
• Cory’s notes on Social Robotics, Scmocial Robotics: Feral Robotics and Some Other Quacking, Shaking, Bubbling (what would the opposite of feral be?) Robots
• Cory’s notes on Rael Dornfest: Rules for Remixing

Direct (notes, slides):

• All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites – full text
• Sam Ruby’s ‘Just Use HTTP’ deck
• Dave McClure’s Vertical Search & The Long Tail BOF deck
• Tangible Computing deck and notes
• Matt’s Creative Commons outline

This morning, I found a small utility for OS X called Active Timer. It’s very basic, but will track the focused program on your computer in 5-second increments. I think there’s a lot of potential for ‘good habit training’ in tools like this (I can see a whole lot of metrics, visualization that might be generated from a smarter version of this. The important part of it is the automatic collection of this data. The next step is the integration with workflow…

It’s been on my todo list to get more out of Quicksilver for a while. One of the things that I’d never gotten to work to my satisfaction was the Clipboard functionality. I love having a clipboard history, but accessing the history through the primary interface was a pain, and when launching directly, it just ended up hanging there, which was uber-annoying.

Well, duh, there’s a Clipboard preference checkbox that will “Hide after pasting” which completely solves my problem. From the out, pasting from the last 10 items into an application is as simple as:

CMD-Space, CMD-L, [#]

Where # is a digit between 0 and 9. Groovy.

After a quick jaunt to SD and back (I spent by far more time on the road than anywhere else) I’m trying to catch up with email, work, backfilling of SXSW notes (even short summaries and links are taking a surprisingly long time), and trying to focus coding some interesting things tonight. The SXSW notes are dated against the panel times (hmm, think about Time Zones) so they should make reverse chronological sense.

I’ll be trying to ingest etech content/commentary over the next few days. Apparently there were lots of good bits there this year. I should try hard to make it there properly next year.

My current obsession btw, here’s are some pre/post SXSW entries. I should keep the results of the water % numbers too, I’m sure it’d explain Wednesday’s entry:

“Improved focus can be achieved through activities such as meditation, yoga, and turning off instant messaging”

— Ulrich Mayr, University of Oregon

This panel wasn’t as exciting as I hoped it’d be, but it was the end of a long week and I was too tired to really care that much.

After this panel, I crashed for about an hour or so, missing out on some Hilton-bar schmoozing, but I think redeemed myself with the partying until 7AM.

Bruce Sterling’s always entertaining. This year, it was all about the fabricators: the physical being the new digital, within the context of sustainability. Really good stuff. (did IP concerns get touched here?) Anyway, just read the notes.

• Auscilate’s mostly complete transcript
• Lawver Wiki notes
• Clickable Culture notes
• The Actual is the New Virtual: Alex and Bruce Keynote SXSW – Alex posts a summary
• The Kind of Future Fabbing Suggests – Alex writes further on the topic matter

This was in the day-stage this year, and quickly became Sitting Here vs. Getting Food.

OK, not that funny, but worth noting that two blocks down from the Convention Center (betwen 4/5th on the Brazos side?) there’s a Taco Shack in the first floor of the Frost Bank Tower that has some great Mexican fast food.

OK, as you were.

I really enjoyed this panel (Jonas’ and Danah’s presentations were particularly interesting), and I liked that they actually brought up how retarded the ‘lets throw the data out there’ mentality is. Obviously there’s a real dichotomy going on w/ decentralization. How do you mine what’s already there to create useful services, and two, how do you deal with all that’s out there? At some point, I should go back and fill out some notes with all the thoughts triggered from the various stuff tossed out, but for now I’m tired of typing.

• Auscillate’s transcript
• jibber jabber’s notes
• Clickable Culture’s notes