March 17, 2008
News Bits are Useful!
- The Wall Street Journal dogs the SXSW Conference.
- According to speculators on Wall Street, Tuesday is a "make-or-break" day for the U.S. economy...
- TV coverage of the War in Iraq is waning.
- Yikes: Apparently there's a growing concern over hackers being able to hack into pacemakers and other implanted devices.
- Tibetan protests against the Chinese government have recently intensified. The Dalai Lama fears imminent bloodshed on a large scale...
- ...while the Chinese government has blocked YouTube viewing of the Tibetan protests.
- Many community gardens throughout Austin are at risk of being bulldozed for the sake of urban growth.
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I had an interesting chat on Sunday with a long-time event organizer and planner who corroborated several other stories about TABC being called on the parties this year. Apparently they showed up at the Red Bull party and a few others trying to shut them down. Not all the parties realized that TABC's jurisdiction does NOT cover private parties as long as the organizers keep a list of all attendees. Next year it'll be building inspectors.
"Not all the parties realized that TABC's jurisdiction does NOT cover private parties as long as the organizers keep a list of all attendees."
This must explain why many of the big non-SXSW parties are RSVP only. Smart . . .
So, let me get this straight. Austinist can link to articles, basically PROMOTING THEM, that bash SXSW, but can't allow their own writers to write something similar.