Oh boy.. this is an old post (and there are two more oldies coming) but I am going to publish it anyway. When life gets busy, the first thing dropped is blog content. Sorry.

By Sunday, the third day of SXSW Interactive, I had come to realize that the panels were genuinely hit or miss in terms of being completely great versus quite poor, but realized that the attendees were folks I truly was intrigued to meet. So rather than spend the morning sitting in panels, I hung around the bloghaus, talking with people and catching up on some java code I needed to complete.

Heading to lunch with Charlie.

I hit up lunch with Charlie, just grabbing a bite on the 4th floor due to time, and then headed to the Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, keynote. Whoa…. for all of you readers who did not watch the Zuckerberg keynote, please avoid doing so (though I will provide you will this clip below). =) At first it was obvious that Zuckerberg was nervous and perhaps stumbling a bit on his answers. But then it became real apparent that he had all right to be nervous as the interviewer, Sarah Lacy, continued to make small jokes at him, announce (rather than allowing Zuckerberg to do so) the Facebook rollout into France and then, completely to my dismay as a woman, seemed to be flirting with him on stage as she sat twirling her hair. It was so incredibly uncomfortable to watch that soon Charlie and I had to walk out. The most interesting thing about the interview was the dialogue that took place on twitter as the system was inundated with techies tweeting disapproval. A good commentary on the side tracked interview was written by Dave McClure. I also really liked my friend Danielle’s approach on her blog, especially since it was one of her first posts ever.

Lacy tries to explain. Scoble did a second interview with Zuckerberg before the conference was over, the text of which can be found here on Scoble’s blog.After the Zuckerberg interview I had the opportunity to meet Andrew Parker of Union Square Ventures. I find USV to be a very intriguing firm as the are always on the bleeding edge of internet technology services, investing in many well known web2.0 companies such as del.iocio.us, twitter, tumblr, Adaptvie Blue, Wesabe and many others. I also follow the USV Partner Fred Wilson’s blog and was intrigued to meet Andrew as he was the person who replaced my friend Charlie when Charlie headed off to Oddcast.I popped into a couple panels after that, but the day was mostly gone and so headed to dinner with Robb, Lucas, and two of their friends to a Tex-mex place across the river that ended up being fabulous. We then headed to the People Powered Party where I was hoping to meet the Etsy crew. I unfortunately did not run into them, but had a great conversation with the Eluciv Knowledge guys, Orian Marx and Yuri Niyazov. After a random stop in a bar to shoot some pool with Shawn, we took a bike cab to the Blogger Party (which was seriously an adventure inside of itself) and then headed home.

My blackberry doesn’t take the best photos….