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A woman digging through wedding cake for diamonds is forever

Tuesday, March 11th at 6:41 p.m. • 1 comment

The last two “events” I attended yesterday were very Rachel-esque, and I was happy that I got to be there with her.

Heather Armstrong and Maggie Mason spoke at the Content Boundaries, a 12-step program panel, and really, who would be better at talking about what content is appropriate or inappropriate for your blog than Heather?

Heather and Maggie

I won’t go over what Heather said (because Rachel so seriously and intently scribbled notes from her mentor), but I can speak with first-hand experience that what you say on your blog can come back to bite you in the ass, and deciding on what is ripe for public criticism and what is not (at least by your own resources) is something with which I’ve struggled to no end, and is why I don’t blog so much anymore.

When the means by which you earn a living are at stake for a silly blog entry, you quickly decide what’s important to you, what you can get away with and what should be walked away from.

I met Jon Armstrong, who was incredibly nice, which means I had fun grilling him on why he chose Drupal instead of Django to power Dooce.com. (His answer, which is largely subjective and interpretive was that Django wasn’t mature enough, which can be true depending on what your needs are.)

Rachel and I missed the LOLWUT? Why Do I Keep Coming Back to This Website? panel (oh, c’mon, you would’ve totally gone to that, too!) and SXSW Bowling to meet her blogging partner-in-crime, Leah. She’s a part-time wedding photographer and was (wo)manning a booth at the convention center, fourtunately at the same time SXSW was going on, for Austin Wedding Day.

The experience was rather surreal for me because Leah looked and acted like one of my friends from back home (with a good dose of Tina Fey in there), but naturally I didn’t say anything, otherwise you get the “What?? How does she act like meeee?!”

One event of note: Austin Wedding Day apparently allows grown women to dig through wedding cake in search for — no joke — diamonds. Because, you know, that’s completely rational behavior for women who want to get married.

Some of the photos from our “shoot” at the end of the day:

And video of Heather and Maggie speaking at the panel.

Comments

  1. What… how does she act like me?!

    Just kidding. :)

    Nice to meet you!

    leah Muse • March 11, 2008 at 8:32 p.m.

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