GeekAustin tidbits - Jobs, Whurley in the clouds, and everyone all a twitter

GeekAustin friend Whurley will be writing a column on cloud computing for Infoworld. Want to know what else he has up his sleeve? I'm not telling.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Austin ranked #10 for creation of new jobs in 2008. However, Houston ranked #1, and Dallas-Fort Worth ranked #2. Details at the Austin Business Journal. My hometown of Detroit led the nation in job loss. Am I glad I moved to Austin? So where are those jobs?

Jason Cohen's weblog, A Smart Bear, is a finalist in the Weblog awards. Jason has some great insight. Good to see him getting recognition.

Michelle Greer just interviewed the brainy Brandon Wiley, of Ringlight. I've been wanting to interview Brandon for a while, but Michelle beat me to the punch. You can find the interview on Nerdabout Austin.

Tom Serres, of Piryx (GeekAustin interview), just informed me that he will be speaking at SXSW 2009 on the movement online of political campaigns. Tom and Piryx will be co-hosting the GeekAustin E-nauguration Party. Tom will be live, via Twitter and Qik, from the DC Inaugural Ball.

Speaking of twitter, I seem to be getting more and more of my news from twitter. Alex Jones (GeekAustin interview), of Refresh Austin, recently explained how twitter is becoming increasingly valuable. Want to learn the dos and don'ts of twitter? Check out Omar Gallaga's guidelines. Want to meet other twitter folk? Come to GeekAustin's Inaugural Tweetup (the party within a party).