From the category archives:

The Local

SXSW 2010: Interactive Party Rundown

4 March 2010
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I sifted through the staggering number of SXSWi parties to help Austin visitors find their way to the goods.

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Austin City Limits Festival 2009

3 October 2009
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I was there with Pearl Jam, Kings of Leon, Phoenix, Bon Iver, Raphael Saadiq, Dr. Dog, Grizzly Bear, The Dead Weather, Passion Pit, Them Crooked Vultures, and countless others. You can see a full gallery here.

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Blogs with Balls 1.0 Highlight Reel

19 July 2009
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It’s officially been over a month since Blogs with Balls 1.0 went down in New York City. And seeing as details about Blogs with Balls 2.0 in Vegas are starting to trickle out, now seemed like as good of time as any to bust out the highlight clips from 1.0.

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The Digital Aqueducts

16 July 2009
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Where I compile some discussions and thoughts about location-based services like Yelp, Foursquare, and OpenTable and what their successful integration could mean for local businesses around the world.

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Austin Return: My First Meals

29 June 2009
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Thursday night I will be back in Austin for the first time since the very beginning of the month. After spending 4+ weeks in San Francisco and New York, here are the meals at the top of my Austin homecoming gorge list.

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Blogs with Balls 1.0: 13 Lessons Learned

16 June 2009

The foundations of a postmortem for Blogs with Balls 1.0 in New York City.

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Countdown to Balls

9 June 2009

Friendly reminder — this Saturday — Balltron 3000 invades New York.  Do you have your ticket yet?:

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Co-Worker Highlights: Q1 2009

11 April 2009

My coworkers are awesome. Here are three recent examples of that awesomeness.

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Stuff I Liked at the Guggenheim Today

21 February 2009

Jamie and I visited the Guggenheim today. Here’s a quick rundown of my favorite works (or at least the ones I could find pictures of online).

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Announcing Blogs with Balls

16 February 2009

Since Ren at Hugging Harold Reynolds has let the cat out of the bag, I figured I might as well make it official over here as well — I am working with the team at HHR Media and a few other amazing people on a new venture called Blogs with Balls.

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Where to Watch Super Bowl XLIII in NYC

30 January 2009

Looking for somewhere to watch this Sunday’s scrum between the Cardinals and Steelers in the Isle of Manhattan? The guys at UrbanTailgate have put together this handy map for finding a good Steeler or Cardinal bar (in the latter’s case, is there REALLY such a thing?) or just a spot with plenty of plasmas and [...]

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Slideshow: New Year’s Eve in Austin

6 January 2009

Admittedly this isn’t the most thrilling New Year’s Eve slideshow you’re ever going to see. You know — the kind with, like, people and stuff clearly happening in them. But for those of you who (a) want to get some feeling for the frenetic energy on Sixth Street and/or (b) couldn’t make it to the [...]

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My 2008 Travelogue

31 December 2008

I’ve always watched various bloggers keep these interesting logs of all the places they’ve been in a given year, feeling left out b/c my annual travel paths usually don’t take me through more than five or six cities. But as you may know, 2008 has been much more of a road warrior year for me, [...]

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Recently on TrojanWire

16 November 2008

A recap of some of TrojanWire’s greatest hits from the 2008 season (so far).

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The Angels Finally Get Their Big Bat

30 July 2008

The past few seasons, the trade deadline has come and gone, and Angel fans like myself have listened to countless rumors involving the Angels, one of their prospects, and some big bat with an expiring contract (Carlos Lee, Aramis Ramirez, Miguel Tejada all come to mind) have circled, the Halos have come away without any [...]

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