Kevin Gant hung out with us this week and shared great stories of the film festival circuit in support of Kevin.
Police: Man who committed suicide linked to two New Year’s Day attacks
Austin police said Thursday night that a man who committed suicide Jan. 12 has been linked to a pair of attacks on 31st and King streets early New Year’s Day, and is the prime suspect in the fatal assault of Esme Barrera that morning.
(via neighborhoodr-austin)
You haven’t seen or met Austin’s own Zach Anner yet? Let’s fix that this Thursday.
Come on down to ZACH ATTACK! at the Alamo Drafthouse on S Lamar, 7 p.m. Thursday. Buy tickets here.
Zach Anner will appear with Zach Weiner of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. They will entertain.
In addition, the evening’s MC will be none other than Alexis Ohanion, co-founder of Reddit, proprietor of Breadpig, co-conspirator of Hipmunk and Y Combinator, anti-SOPA campaigner, and all around talented Internet nice guy.
It should be a good time. Proceeds benefit DonorsChoose classrooms in Austin.
Please do join us. Thanks.
Again, that ticket link is:
http://drafthouse.com/movies/zach_attack
Two days ago, you guys stepped up once again to show the world just how much we care about protecting the Internet. Together, we generated more than 140,000 calls to Senators, spent more than 4,200 hours on the phone with their staffers, and blacked out 650,000 of our blogs to make our point and inspire others to get involved. And what’s more, this was on top of the 90,000 calls we sent to members of the House of Representatives a month ago. Incredible.
It’s now becoming clear just how much impact our action is having. On January 18th, only 31 members of Congress opposed these bills. Just one day later, 101 members of Congress publicly stood with us in opposition. We are being heard.
And as of today, it looks like both the Senate PIPA and House SOPA bills have been shelved, for the moment. It seems pretty likely that the bills won’t pass as written—a big first win. We now hope that Internet companies, the creative community and the content industry join together to innovate and devise new partnerships to combat online piracy. We’re confident there are effective ways to do this without damaging the Internet or diminishing our freedoms.
You’ve made a big difference in keeping the Internet a safe and open place for creators. Thank you again.
Topics:
- community management in general and in Austin
- a community for community managers
- Awesome Foundation
- the campaign, debates, etc.
- SOPA and PIPA
- ZACH ATTACK! (Join us next Thursday.)
- the Chamber of Commerce, StartupAmerica
- Michael Lewis and his books, including Boomerang
- Echelon + what are the odds that our phones are permanent bugs capable of sharing audio and video with agencies
- managing nonprofit organizations
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web development
Topics 12.30.2011:
- The Unthinkable
- great ol’ tales from The Hole in the Wall
- the passing of Momo’s, Emo’s, and Gowalla
- leadman
- Homeland
- How We Decide
- Cleveland, Ohio
- West Texas
- Roku, Apple TV
- Stratfor hacked by Anonymous
- Cybersecurity
- Geopolitics and intelligence services
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
December topics included:
- RIP Joe Gracey. Thank you, sir.
- The Wire and Treme
- Global Guerrillas and resilient communities (including a great in-person visit with Shlok Vaidya)
- smuggling
- Tokyo
- startup accelerators
- The Plant, a vertical farm and food business incubator in Chicago
- Hackerspace
- HubCast
- the Banksy intro to The Simpsons
- FF&E
- game development
- Infinity Blade II, Sword and Sourcery, Scribblenauts
- Formula One and Austin
- the holidays
