Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good

Every time I say I'll never mention SXSW on my blog again...

So last night TechnoSailor had the testicular fortitude to be the only person after Robert Scoble to actually come up and apologize for the SXSW heckling event. Apparently while I was sweating around NYC all day semi-off the grid everyone discussed and called it the apology of the century! I don't know about all that. But I thought it was an incredibly gracious and classy thing to do.

It seems T.S. didn't know if I took his apology so I wanted to do a quick post to say YES. Life is too short for grudges. Besides the whole incident sold way more books and got me way more speaking gigs. Not that I want such things to happen all the time. But just saying.

Here's are photos to mark (haha!) the occasion. First, "ehh...I'm not letting you off the hook..."

then, "Well, ok."

...And I am officially exhausted!! more photos and blogging about my time in DC to come. For now, breakfast with my husband in New York. I think I remember him...

Meantime check out my latest Valley Girl column!

So, looks like I'll be stopping in Seattle and Portland in late August because I'm speaking at Gnomedex which I'm very very excited about!

That's all I have planned. Ideas for fun events in either city? People who can help plan? People who want stickers and posters? Leave it all in the comments! :)

So I had an amazing time last night at dinner with a dozen or so Web folks and Michael Tolosa is such a rock star he even made the waiter buy a copy! The AOL chat I did with Michael and Frank Gruber was also a lot of fun with some really great questions. They recorded it, so video to be embedded here soon. Frank is about to drive me into DC so he's going to do a SomewhatFrank.tv video cast on the drive I think. Now, THAT sounds safe!

Next up: Event #3. I boldly inserted myself into an existing event so I'm well aware the 700 people or so attending aren't coming just to see little ol' me. Still, it says a lot about Web enthusiasm in DC which means I'm in the right place. I am saying a few words then hopefully answering some questions and signing some books so if you are coming please bring your book or $20 to buy one. I only have about 30 copies left so buy early and often!!

Well, ladies and gentlemen, Sophie Askew has done it again. The same illustrator who designed the killer illustrations on this site has designed the Official UGBT T-shirt and stickers. We're trying to convince my husband to silk screen some posters.

Here's the plan:

Anyone who requests it will get a stack of stickers in the mail personalized with their city in advance of the tour stop to slap around town. If Geoff does the posters, you'll get those too. Anyone who goes above and beyond in organizing events and/or hosting us will get a free T-shirt. Otherwise, T-shirts are for sale for however much it costs to print them. (More for fun than profit! Believe me--I'm not getting rich off this tour!) If you buy three copies of the book, you will get a free T-shirt.

CAVEAT: I will not have the materials in time for my DC event this week. That's the downside of being first in a disorganized-by-design tour. But because I have 40 to sell, if you buy three books, I'll mail you a shirt when I get them. (Books make great gifts for that parent or out-of-touch boss who keeps going, "What's Web 2.0?" or "Why should I be on Facebook?" or "The Internet is just a trolling ground for pedophiles!")

I can't put the design on here for some annoying reason. But you can see it here and here on Sophie's site. (The back is slightly different, and yes Washington and Portland are spelled correctly in the actual version...)