Bruce Springsteen: 'This Land is Your Land' Video from SXSW

Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello & More: 'This Land is Your Land' at South by SouthwestBruce Springsteen rocked the Moody Theater in Austin, Texas with a show-stopping version of Woody Guthrie's classic protest song "This Land is Your Land", with a little help from his...

Vote for our Panel 'From Consumed to Thrifty: Strategie for the Good Life in ...

As the economy as been on the rocks for the past year, the idea for a panel discussion at South by Southwest Interactive (Austin, March 2009) titled From Consumed to Thrifty: Strategies for the Good Life in a Wobbly Economy slowly percolated, like a good cup of espresso.These...

Is Firing Someone by E-Mail Less Painful

In the last panel I attended at South by Southwest, Working over the web- Managing distributed staffs, Andrew Huff of Gapers Block and Jeff Robbins of Lullabot shared what they learned about managing work relationships over the web either across town or in different timezones.

They make wine in Texas...What I learned at South by Southwest, Lesson 1

I have to pledge my ignorance.Until I met Austin resident and fellow writer Ellen, I did not have a clue about the existence, type, style, taste of wines from Texas.I did not taste any but was shown a full display of the stuff at the Whole Foods headquarters store (525 North...

'Rattled' at 50, On March 4, Debra Galant gives birth to 'Fear and Yoga in Ne...

If there is someone who can prove that the online world is not populated only by 20 somethings, the forever young Debra Galant proves that it is never too late to do anything you wanna do. She founded Baristanet a few years back but her proudest achievement might be the...

If I Can Market to Me, I Can Market to any Cynic (Janet Greenlee)

Having been in one marketing discipline or other all my life, I'm pretty jaded.  And private.  Or so I thought. I've also been very involved in understanding the "boomer" dynamics most of my boomer adult life -- yes, we're the demographic tier that we were calling...

2 Weeks to Go before 'Just Over 50 and Not Dead Yet' Panel at South by Southw...

Way back then in 2007, I asked you to vote for what was then an idea, a panel discussion at South by Southwest Interactive in March 2008 on being Just Over 50 and Active Online. Thanks to your support this idea will be a reality, 16 days from now. So here is what Just Over...

1 Speaker Spot left on our 'Just Over 50 & Not Dead Yet' South by Southwest P...

Reading this right now, in your late 40's or early 50's with an Online Presence and a foot or two in the Book Business, Work/Life or Non-Profits, we still have 1 Seat Available on our Just Over 50 and Not Dead Yet panel.  It will address the fact that the Online World is...

We did it...Our 'Just Over 50 and Not Dead Yet' Panel will be featured at 'So...

We learned late Monday that our 'Just Over 50 and not Dead Yet' panel had been selected as one of the themes to be featured at South by Southwest Interactive (March 2008). They liked the fact that "this idea focuses on a portion of the audience traditionally...

Last Day to Vote for 'Just Over 50 and Not Dead Yet'...Panel (South by Southw...

Last Day to Give Your Vote to the 'French Guy from New Jersey'.  Not to beat a dead horse or keep playing the same track over and over but this is as close to Crunch Time as it can be.  Voting for our South by Southwest (2008) Panel Idea Just Over 50 and Not Dead...

Give us a Hand...Vote Right Here for 'Just Over 50...' Panel

To make it easier on those of you who pay a visit to 'Serge the Concierge', I added a Click On Button (South by Southwest Interactive) located in the right column that allows you to vote Right Here, Right Now for our 'Just Over 50 and Not Dead Yet' panel.

Just Over 50...Online and Not Ready for AARP...Matt Richtel (New York Times)

I am glad to see that for a change a newspaper or a magazine article does not confine itself to My Space, Facebook and the like and/or only twenty somethings when writing about social networking sites. In 'New Social Sites...', Matt Richtel (New York Times) explores...