Friday, August 22, 2008

Outside Lands Fest in San Francisco this weekend

Most of our office has cleared out as folks make their way westward into Golden Gate Park for the first ever Outside Lands Music Festival.

I won't be going, as my wife and I are expecting the birth of our first child any day now and the last place I want to be when her water breaks is in the middle of a field of 50k Radiohead fans (radioheadheads?) with limited cellphone reception.

To assist or combat my FOMO (fear of missing out), I'll have plenty of distractions to keep me tuned into the action all weekend long:

AT&T Blueroom will be webcasting many of the sets from the weekend.

Crowdfire will be updating with words, photos & videos

Twitter has a bot which will send out any message sent to @osl back to anyone following. I built this based on the wonderful success of the @nojf bot we used for JazzFest. If you've got any ideas for an automated twitter group, let me know and I can add it to the queue.

If you're going, be sure to check out the JamBase booth in the CrowdFire tent in the Polo Fields. Tell 'em I say hi! :)

Whether you're there or not, enjoy your weekend, and give thanks for all you've got.