Aporistic learnings from SXSW so far:

A bullet point in a powerpoint which wraps is not a bullet point, it´s just a bad sentence.

If you want incremental improvements, ask your users. If you want breakthroughs, ignore everybody. @kathysierra

We got more going on than we think. We could do a few things to create a 21st century we could be proud of. #brucesterling

Key to civilization is how a society treats children, the elderly, the homeless, the downtrodden and the debased. #brucesterling

The elderly will be the backbone of the non-commercial social web. They’re not so weak they can’t hit the return key. #brucesterling

Took #brucesterling’s advice, Googled Obamatrons, best headline: Obamatrons sing ‘Obamalujah’

Kittens wake up your brain. @kathysierra

The surest way to guarantee nothing interesting happens is to assume you know exactly how to do it. @kathysierra

“Second life is dead? GREAT, we love dead things.” -Colleen Morgan at archaeology panel

When audience goes into Blackberry prayer mode: Hands come together, head bows… I know I have lost you. Craig Ball

#cshirky: The internet is the largest group of people who care about reading and writing ever assembled in history.

Recipe for leveraging the Wisdom of Crowds online: Small simple tasks, given to Large Diverse groups, Designed for Selfishness in which results aggregate.

Your spam filter is millions of years old. What gets through: Chemistry. #kathysierra

Best design philosophy: Zero to Smile in three clic ks. (From the makers of Spore)

And some very Cool links that I learned about here:

The Best Of the Twittersphere: http://www.favrd.com

Dedicated to the art of Powerpoint sharing: http://www.slideshare.net

Get corporations to respond to complaints: http://www.getsatisfaction.com (And should we in Greenpeace think about using this to get customer support for Planet Earth??)

Track Twitter tags: http://hashtags.org/

Text, video, picture sharing network: http://www.utterli.com/

Facebook Connect: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/

Crowd sourced disaster reporting: http://www.ushahidi.com/

Event Live Blogging: http://www.scribblelive.com

Crowd sourced advertising: http://www.geniusrocket.org

Create your own theme song, which plays every time you come into the room where your blue+tooth enabled device detects it: http://blog.pixelfumes.com/?p=232

Mobile Activism — cell phones as activist tools: http://mobileactive.org/

This guy, an online wine blogger, was treated like a rock star here: http://garyvaynerchuk.com/