Headed to SXSW Interactive tomorrow – I’m very excited.  I’m from Austin so it’s actually a vacation and I’ll be down there for a week and a half to visit the family and play in the sun as well.  This is the weather here today in Redmond and I need a vacation!

If you are as overwhelmed as I am by the almost 400 panels, here’s my Excel spreadsheet that I used to sort and filter. http://cid-989d470165883d80.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/SXSWi  

Unfortunately it’s not up to the minute accurate (copied from http://sxsw2009.sched.org/ last night) but it’s a good way to get a baseline.

And if you get a free afternoon, here’s my list of swimmin holes that are fairly close to the city.  http://maps.live.com/?v=2&encType=1&cid=989D470165883D80!7002 tinyurl http://tinyurl.com/asmwuo

Say hi if you see me there!

I’m going nuts trying to straighten out all my social media feed publishing and get rid of the duplication and circular references. Check this out:

My Twitter is updating my Facebook status and my Windows Live Messenger status is updating my WL Profile status but my Twitter status is also updating in my Windows Live What’s New feed (but not the status). My Twitter is appearing in my Facebook news feed via Friendfeed so it’s there twice –doh! Then my Windows Live blog updates are publishing to Friendfeed but they don’t always show up so I post them individually in Facebook (nicer formatting too) and then delete the automatic Friendfeed update (if it appears at all). But now that I just added Friendfeed and Twitter to my Windows Live Space in custom HTML modules I realized it’s posting Windows Live blog entries (so they are there twice), not to mention the duplicative Twitter updates that are now on Windows Live in three places...

OK. So now I’m asking, “What are all these services really for?” That’s the only way to straighten all these flows out.

• Facebook is for personal blogging and lifestreaming (commenting on the delicious things I consume on the web), and my other services should feed into it but not duplicate
• Windows Live is for public blogging and photo sharing (even for personal photo sharing – the experience is vastly superior to Facebook and you can use privacy settings)
• Twitter is for public micro-blogging
• Friendfeed is for public lifestreaming but only on topics of general interest (like politics or social media) and not the typical personal minutia that is Facebook

So now I’ll take Twitter out of my Friendfeed which will make it much more consumable for my fellow social media discussers, but I wonder if anyone on Twitter is missing my Friendfeed and Windows Live blog…

Got it? I’m not sure I do. Maybe I should make a diagram.

Twitter -> Facebook and Windows Live

Friendfeed -> Facebook and Windows Live

Windows Live -> Friendfeed and Facebook

That still leaves one circle with Windows Live and Friendfeed but I can live with it since its only a side module that also includes other stuff.

How are you managing your mingling feeds?