So I bet a lot of you all thought Austin 3.0 was down and out for the count?  Well nothing could be further from the truth.  We are still going full force, however our blogging efforts have been less then stellar and for that we apologize.

Kristine and Dustin just began their first semester in the Media Studies master’s program at the University of Texas at Austin where they have been tearing it up talking about new media and geek centric issues.

I am hoping Dustin will soon write an article about his adventures with the Drupal development movement taking place here in Austin, as he has been one of the behind the scenes players hosting barcamps and monthly development meetings.  His work with Lauren Roth and other great geek Drupal leaders like Lynn Bender and Four Kitchens has been invaluable.

Kristine has been working in the ACTLab where she has been tearing it up learning quickly how to “Make Stuff” and has been taking her new media skills to a new level.  Maybe she post about her experiences taking an ACTLab course for the first time.

Me (Joey), well I have been up to no good.  While I have been less then good about going to all the tech happy hours, I have met some really cool people when I have made the events.  In the summer I attended John Erik’s going away party and met some very delightful geeks and new media moguls.

Oh and a shout out to Conjunctured who recently celebrated their 1 year anniversary, I remember going to Jelly and watching Dusty, John, Caesar and the rest of the crew put together that great business, it was awesome to watch.  You all rock!

I have also had some great conversations with the Austin Entrepreneur Network folks here in Austin, they have been tearing it up as well, hosting low cost seminars about all the new media technologies.

And of course GeekAustin has been the backbone to our great scene here in Austin, Lynn’s work is always amazing to watch.

And Whurley, don’t think we are not watching you kick ass as well! Oh the list could go on forever.

Enough Shout Outs.

If you are all are wondering why I have broken out into such a different writing style from my previous academic style posts, it probably has something to do with the fact that I have been working for the past 6 months in the automotive industry doing new media development for various Austin Automotive companies such as Boost Logic, American Racing Technologies, UpRev and other companies.

As well as making my way around the automotive industry, this fall I am helping TA 3 courses in the ACTLab.  In addition to the ACTLab courses, I was invited by the University of Incarnate Word in San Antonio to be an adjunct in Audio Production.  I have since had a great time down in San Antonio once a week working with a great set of students who are truly amazing and inspiring.  This last week I took the students to a  music recording studio (Studio M), yes they still exist!  We had the pleasure of meeting with Michael Morales who gave us a great tour and really brought to light the new vs. old mentalities of copyright and new media production.  We had a great discussion.  And one question I came away with was “will we be able to sustain high-end high level purpose built recording studio’s when everyone is making their music at the coffee shop on their laptop?”

So while this post brings you all some what up to date, I hope it leaves you wanting more.  Trust me, there are some great articles in the making and I look forward to seeing what Dustin and Kristine have to write about their new found geeky experiences in Academia.

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