Buy Tickets today for the Vendy Awards which will be Saturday, September 24. I am on the social media committee for the Vendys, I am managing the Facebook Page for the Vendys. Please “like” Vendy Awards, and send tips of delicious street food from all over the city.

Last week I bought Tina Fey’s “non-memoir” memoir, Bossypants. I read it and loved it.  It’s a very funny collection of autobiographical short stories.

As a big fan of 30 Rock, I wished she talked about:

• The casting of Jane Krakowski over Rachel Dratch as Jenna. I love Jane in the role, but I wonder if network execs had pushed for Jane because of her looks.
• The rivalry between “30 Rock” and “Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip”. Studio 60 got canceled after only one year, but I thought Aaron Sorkin’s recent cameo on 30 Rock was generous considering he just won an Oscar for The Social Network.

Some people wanted to her talk about how hard it is for her juggle her career and family. Some people want to hear about her politics and feminism. I want to know more about her success with running “30 Rock”.  I wish she wrote a book like Jack Welch did about GE, but it about would have more about producing, writing and starring in a network comedy show.

In 2006 there was Twitter, the microblogging service that has change media as we know and love. In 2009 it was Foursquare, and now everyone can know where you are at any given time. In 2011, what is the new hotness that people are buzzing about from SXSW?!  At first, I thought it was group of group texting apps.  Beluga, Fast Society and GroupMe are all about group texting. The point of these apps is that there are the solution when Twitter is too much, Facebook is too public and Foursquare is too slow. Beluga was used effectively during SXSW for some of the Black folks attending to find where is the hot spot, where to get grub or who is out partying. It could be a little annoying but if you want the 411 on the quickness, then it works.

Now that I am back in New York and settled back into the regular grind, I have reconsidered. I think the the hottest thing that came out of SXSW this year was just the status of being there.  More people from more diverse professions migrated to Austin this year. The old skool tech geeks mixed with new school social media people for a few days of drinking beer, skipping panels and collecting swag.  To be in Austin in March is the new going to college in Cambridge.

Wednesday, I got an email from the Museum of The City Of New York offering a deal on a lecture if you ordered your ticket within 24 hours. I think that there should be a Groupon like site for city attractions like botanical gardens, museums, and zoos. Does Gilt City do that?

Anyway, I bought the $6 ticket for the lecture, Segregated Sound. The panelists were Dr. Patrick Burke, Washington University, author of Come In and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street (University of Chicago Press, 2008); soul, blues, and traditional Native American musician, Martha Redbone; and Dr. Maureen Mahon, New York University, author of Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race (Duke University Press, 2004).

The panelists were super knowledgeable and I felt the panel could have been better if the moderator didn’t talk as much and asked clunky questions. Also, I think actual music cues during the discussion would have been good. Play some Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Living Colour. It would have nice to hear a bit of Martha Redbone’s music as well.