{Looks like several of you are taking me up on the offer to have your communications, PR and geek thoughts featured on FlackRabbit. Yay! Our first guest post is a quick Wordpress/iPhone tutorial by the fabulous Joe Flood of Washington, D.C.}

Now that I’m sure you have your own Wordpress blog, thanks to Margie, let’s make it look good on an iPhone. You don’t want people to have to zoom in or squint to look at your web pages in the iPhone’s tiny browser. Instead, you want something that looks formatted for the ubiquitous Apple product. Like this: Read More…

I love the Internet for many reasons, but one of them happens to be its ability to provide third-party confirmation of random truths. Here are a few…

When you look up how to find people on Twitter, my profile is the example they’ve used for a couple of years now. I’ve no clue why:

D.C. is not only a town where snow is frequently predicted, it actually happens:

People really do read your blog:

Amazon affiliate links can earn you some cash for things you forgot you linked to:

Speaking of Amazon links, from here on out I’ll be following those links with a note that says “affiliate link.” This means that if you buy something from Amazon using the link I’ve provided, I’ll get a penny or two. Unless you buy the Harry Potter paperback box set (affiliate link), in which case I get $2.00!

Good one, Verizon. Good one. But rather than go buy the Droid for Christmas, what this commercial really makes me wanna do is pile up on the couch, drink hot chocolate and watch the claymation Rudolph movie. Tonight.

I can’t hardly believe I’m saying this: I love the Motorola Droid and think you go should buy one. I wish I had one myself. No, I’m not drunk. Read my full review over at Her Nashville. Check out some pics here: Read More…

The October issue of HerNashville is online! A little Chic Geek teaser:

Nashville-area business owners, managers, and diligent employees: pay special attention to that customer tapping away at her iPhone or thumbing through her BlackBerry. She just might be Twittering about your customer service (or lack thereof), snapping a pic of your cute bartender or barista, or posting a rating of your business on consumer review websites like Yelp! and OpenTable. Read More…

I get lots-o questions from the non-techy set about “what’s next,” what geek toys I just can’t live without, etc.

This week, a friend asked me to name a few tech items that impress me. He looked at me with great anticipation – literally ready to take notes – but then I gave him my enthusiastic answer: “Oh! That Domino’s Pizza Tracker! It BLOWS MY MIND.” I thought he was going to cry.

(sigh)

Seeing the disappointed look on his face (I mean really, Chic Geek? That’s all you got?) I quickly followed up my pizza tracking glee with another tech toy that really impresses me: the Public Radio Tuner app for the iPhone.  Score! He totally approved of that one.

Clearly, I HEART the pizza tracker. I mean come on people; it tracks your pizza prep in real time AND tells you the name of your delivery person! But hearing about the Public Radio Tuner app really about made me cry.

See, I was listening to the WPLN fund-drive when I heard Blake Farmer say you one can listen to WPLN from ANYWHERE via this iPhone app thing. Holy cow! This was exciting news for me, since I’m moving and one of the things I’ll miss most are the Nashville Public Radio voices. It also lets you tune in WMOT, which is awesome. You don’t even need to be on wireless for it to work; it tunes in via 3G just fine.

The sound is not HD by any means and sometimes it drops the signal mid-newscast, but it’s still your local public radio station in your ear when you are far from home. That’s impressive and makes my heart happy.

What about you? What technology impresses you? Share it in the comments!

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Here's me putting OtherInbox's Mr. Spam in a headlock. This is what I wanted to do to Mr. AT&T, but he was a no-show at SXSW.

We did it! Team Newman survived the fifth and final day of South by Southwest Interactive. Not to be confused with the music portion, which starts today. Many of you emailed, Facebooked and Twittered me with great SXSW Music folks to check out…unfortunately, our geek lanyards don’t get us into those music venues. Sorry!

Anywho, Day 5 was great and included everything from getting work done, to tacos, to watching intoxicated dudes attempt to ride the mechanical bull. I managed to sneak in two SXSW panels, which is tough to pull off on the last day of any conference. I even wore red on St. Patrick’s Day in hopes of winning Gowalla’s Flip Mino HD. No, (sigh) I didn’t win.

I really enjoyed the “Non-Profits: Be the Web You Wish to See!” panel with Stanley Jones of Diligent Creative. I was quite underwhelmed by the “Surviving Scandal” panel though. I think the gal knew what she wanted to say, just couldn’t find a way to say it. Her awkward struggle with public speaking made me very sad/uncomfortable/sorry for her so I had to get up and leave.

The Media Temple closing party was fabulous though; easily the most fun party we attended during our six days here. We had free grub and LoneStar and had a great time giggling at the bull riders.

All in all, it was a great experience. Though, this was the last SXSWi trip for Team Newman for a while.

When we first attended SX three years ago, it was much more intimate (say, 3,000 folks) than the SX of today. I love to think about 13,000 geeks in once place, but I don’t enjoy what a mass o’ tech-addicted laptop lovers does to AT&T and my iPhone. And it certainly wasn’t good for our hotel internet connection either. We always try to work, blog and write while we are here. With the massive internet and iPhone failure, we simply couldn’t do any of that. And that sucks.

Of course, none of that is the fault of the SXSW organizers. We’ve no issues with the festival itself. Still, we’ll be looking for the next, slightly smaller geeky gathering for 2010. Suggestions?

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Day 4 involved a little less session time and a little more tacos/fajitas/beverages. I did attempt to go to the 11:30 session called “How to Protect Your Brand Without Being a Jerk!” but got tired of listening to the panelists argue with each other and left early.

I did manage to get a lot of work done on Day 4 though, so I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.

The issue for Team Newman is this: AT&T was apparently caught off guard by the SXSWi geek migration to Austin, so our iPhones are useless. And, since our hotel gets its Internet service from AT&T, the wireless speed in our room is painfully slow. Therefore, if we are to get any work done we have to go to the Convention Center (sigh).

You can imagine how bitter we, the Internet-addicted, are right now.

BUT the good news is that we found a place here in Austin called Rio Grande and we loved the food there so much that we ate there twice on Day 4. The best part: they make FlackRabbit-sized mango margaritas! Adorable AND yummie!

We also went to a couple of fun parties where my hand got some fashion henna and my hubby got a cool t-shirt. Then of course there was the Gowalla party. We got there right as the doors opened and scored some free shirts and beer. AND got to meet Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh (see above photo). He was quite nice and also very introverted, which surprised me a little.

All in all, Day 4 was great. I’m looking forward to Day 5, especially the “core conversation” about non-profits and web tech.

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Saw this Cult of Mac post about a Blackberry Storm ad that was rejected by RIM.  Though the gun message and copy claim is clearly misguided, I still find it rather clever.

Of course, you already know how I feel about the Storm after my brief time throwing it against the wall trying to figure it out. (sigh) Bless ‘em.

You like, you love it, you want some more of it:

• BlackBerry advert sticks it to Apple (reghardware.co.uk)
• The BlackBerry Storm ad that might have been (engadget.com)

Wow. An entire scrapbooking section. Really?