By far one of the most popular panels at SXSW Interactive 2008 was “Worst Website Ever: That’s So Crazy, It Just Might Work” organized by Andy Baio. And of course one of the best presentations on the panel was by Merlin Mann on “FlockdUp”, a startup providing Maverick Networking for Thought Leaders. Roo Reynolds shot video of Merlin’s talk and Merlin posted the slides from his talk to SlideShare.

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Speaking of Merlin Mann, he’s featured on the latest episode of OpenRoad.tv’s “Life Outside the Box”, where he talks to Doug McConnell about one of his favorite places in San Francisco, Stern Grove.