Still recovering from 8 days of SXSW, in particular the Interactive Festival and the gems found within.

As a grassroots activist who believes in empowering the individual this week's blog post is dedicated to sharing a few cool tools...

Anyone Plan To Twitter the Pennsylvania Primary?

Twitter debuted at SXIA '07 where we could watch it unfold on big screens in the conference halls. Live shared "twitting" of an event can be mighty powerful stuff and now journalists are using teams of citizen twitterers to feed live reports.

Meebo the Conventions!

Meebo believes that "all you need is a keyboard and an opinion" to use their tool. You know how to use a chat room, right? So Meebo let's people on different IM platforms (IM, yahoo, google, etc) chat together. For SXIA this year, Meebo set up over 200 discussion rooms that were live during panels. The effect was direct and amazing. It's always interesting to add another layer of conversation.

Wonder if Congress has wi-fi? We could be covering the floor in a whole new way....

End the War, Honor Our Soldiers

Body of War is the story of a soldier who took a bullet to his spine and turned it into a movement to end the war. Tomas Young, his mother, and a clan of amazing musicians brought this film to SXSW and the crowds went wild.

Now showing in limited cities, I list this film as a tool because it will move the most pro-war opinion toward peace and peace is a good thing.

On the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, we honor our soldiers and hope for the swift end of this war.