Google debuted Street View in Google Maps last May, but it arrived in Austin yesterday along with 12 other cities and Yosemite Natl. Park. Click here to go to the map of Austin. The blue areas (or blue outlined streets) are the areas where Street View is available. I just looked at my house. Creepy!
Willie Nelson’s daughter, Paula, apparently is a also a musician and plays gigs at the Saxon Pub. She also doesn’t like it when drunks get on her stage, so watch the f–k out!
h/t to Matt Dentler where I saw this first of several places today.
Update (2008.03.26 17:09 CDT): According to The Statesman’s Michael Corcoran, the whole incident was staged.
There have been several local news reports, KUT and News8Austin among them, about the Austin High School Jazz Band headed to NYC for the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival at Lincoln Center in May. They’re having a fundraising concert tonight at 7pm at the Austin High School Performing Arts Center.
The KUT report was amusing in that one of the teen musicians mentions that he recognized one of the Ellington numbers from a cereal commercial. I’m guessing that’s how most kids get introduced to big band these days: commercials or cartoons. UT had an excellent jazz appreciation class when I was there in the late 80s / early 90s taught by Jeff Hellmer. The History of Rock N Roll class always gets all of the press, but I highly recommend taking Hellmer’s Jazz Appreciation class if you have the chance. They’re both under the same course heading: MUS 307 – Topics in Popular Music. I’m not sure if Hellmer still teaches the class or not.
And go support the Austin High kids tonight. It’s a very cool opportunity.
Apparently, my web server is moving data centers and will be down from 11PM tonight to 11AM tomorrow (CDT).
Would that the rest of the House Democrats were like my man Lloyd Doggett. He consistently makes me feel like I still have some representation in the Federal government, unlike my two rubber stamping senators. Go Lloyd!
The Metblogs network has added a new…um….country? Say hello to The People’s Republic of Unterzoegersdorf . Ambassador Nikita Chrusov, who made an appearance at eTech last week, is appearing at the Plutopia EFF party at Scholz’s as I post this. I hope that diplomacy will prevail.
We had a SXSW meetup of Metbloggers from Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Austin today at Rio Rita. The main topic of conversation was the trainwreck Mark Zuckerberg interview that had just taken place. In fact, a website to commemorate the occasion was conceived and implemented during the meetup. I just took pictures.
Don’t forget about the Metblog meetup in 30 minutes at Rio Rita. It’s at 1308 East Sixth near Attayac (that’s 4 blocks east of I-35).
Richard Ault, Metroblogger in from San Francisco, asked about more music options after my last post, so here’s some more.
I’m trying to get as much out of SXSWi as I can without having a badge. I got myself out early after dropping off my son at school and hit Las Manitas for a small meetup of early arrivals from Laughing Squid, Technorati, Mahalo and Yahoo among others.
I made it back out around 10:30 and scored awesome parking at 3rd and Brazos for the Laughing Squid, blip.tv party at Six which has engulfed the bar area over Spaghetti Warehouse and the old B-Side. Bitter End has officially been demolished. I guess I don’t get over to the Warehouse district much these days. After waiting for 20 minutes to get to the roof bar, I passed Robert Scoble on the way in and found Metblog tech wiz Jason DeFillippo and introduced myself, finally meeting him in person. As with most SXSWi’s, it seemed as if San Francisco had taken over Austin. I spotted Matt Mullenweg of WordPress (the new platform for Metblogs) and then shortly thereafter met Kevin Rose from Digg and the staff from JPG magazine. We later hooked up with Sean Bonner, the other half of the duo responsible for Metroblogging. A good night for everyone in general. I think Sean summed it up best.
