I’m now nearing the end of SXSW interactive in Austin, having also spent a few marvellous days enjoying San Francisco.

SXSW interactive is a conference of web geeks like me – people who understand the need to hop online every few hours, to check Flickr, email and twitter. People who come home from a night out and hop on their MacBook’s to geek out and look at youtube videos.

That said these folks sure like to party, at this conference the parties are more talked about and attended than the actual conference panels. People hop from party to party, enjoying the free booze, entertainment and shwag.

I’ve met up with a bunch of assorted pals from Australia, the US and the UK. I like it here, though my liver is already getting pickled and the music festival hasn’t even started yet.

I’ve been posting photos to Flickr and have been photographed by two folks that work for Flickr, George and Cal.