It’s Monday morning and the hordes of rockn’ rollers that swarmed Austin over the past several days for the music portion of SXSW are now fighting security lines at our little airport in a mass exodus. I would like to say that I am relieved the crowds are leaving so I don’t have to fight them in the restaurants, bars and clubs, but I can’t. Truth be told, I didn’t even notice they were here. I am so freaking old that I spent the entire festival quietly squirreled away in suburbia changing diapers and teaching my seven year old son how to play Mexican Train Dominoes.
The closest I came to a SXSW music venue was listening to my buddy Jeff Sass describe the festival on our weekly Cast of Dads pod cast. He was actually in the midst of it all; downtown, badged up and discovering the up and coming superstars of the music business. I was at home hanging out with my Mother In Law.
I did stay up until 10:45 on Friday night though, that Letterman dude is a hoot.
Take a listen.
Episode 13: Tracking, Texting & Texas
Topics discussed on this episode:
- South By Southwest
- Location awareness and why apps like FourSquare & Gowalla can be great for parents
- Active vs. Passive tracking of our children
- Sass’ use of Foursquare with his kids
- My Mom’s on Facebook
- Kids use of Twitter
- textPlus+ group SMS ability
- The high price of texting plans
- C.C. test drives a Chevy Volt
- Being aware of the world around you (SC Man hit by plane at the beach)
- Texting while driving
- Mobile carrier family mapping options.
- Voice only capabilities of Ford Sync
- Is voice only enough or is it a question of attention?
- iType2Go
- Someone needs to develop a Southern voice recognition for Brad
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Cast of Dads is a group of podcasting and blogging dads who gather to gab about fatherhood. The cast of dads includes C.C. Chapman, Jeffrey Sass, Max Kalehoff, Michael Sheehan, and Brad Powell, who collectively represent 13 kids from the youngest of babies to full grown adults. Each of them brings a unique perspective to being a father.
