Just in time for people to have almost forgotten about him, SCVNGR's Chief Ninja, Seth Priebatsch, is rumored to be making a very, very big announcement during his Keynote at SXSW on Saturday.

A source very close to the Egotist says the new product announcement is going to blow the "game layer" out of the water.

The real question is, do you care? Let us know in the comments.

Which Bostonian agencies will have a presence at SXSW next week? Who will be blogging and tweeting from the fest? Let us know in the comments so that we can live vicariously through you.

As for parties, it looks like there will be at least two Boston-centic meetups:

This one with The Weekly Dig and Converse will be on St. Patrick's Day from 12-6pm.

This Boston in Austin happy hour will be on March 13th at Fado Irish Pub.

What Bostonian creative wouldn't want to work with NESN and the Red Sox? It's the Holy Grail of local accounts. According to a release on Wednesday

"MMB will create campaign concepts and collaborate with NESN to produce television, radio, print and online elements. The new creative campaign will reflect NESN's brand evolution toward marketing to a younger, more digitally-connected demographic and to personalize and showcase the team's star players to its passionate fan base. The campaign is set to begin this week.
'We're very excited to be working with MMB,' said Rick Booth, NESN's Director of Creative Services. "They understand the sports fans of today, the strengths of our network and the unique passion and emotional connection that exist between the team and its fans.'"

Congrats MMB- good times never seemed so good, so good, so good!

3D printers aren't just for industrial designers anymore.

"An engineering lab and a culinary school have teamed up to construct novel edible objects with 3D printers that use pureed foods in place of ink.

Miniature space shuttles made of ground scallops and cheese are among the masterpieces that had already been made using 3D food printers designed by the computational synthesis laboratory at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.

The lab is collaborating with the New York City-based French Culinary Institute to make new edible creations through a project called fab@home."

Read more about this epic collaboration here.

We want one of these and we want it now.
What is the first thing you would sculpt out of cheese? Best answer will be tweeted this afternoon.

The UK’s Luton and Manchester Airports have launched holographic members of staff to help passengers through the security process.

The real question here is whether or not the holograms perform those infamous pat-downs in the security line.

We have to give credit where credit is due and today we're giving it to Greg Faucher, SEO Specialist over at AMP Agency.

Greg wrote a blog post yesterday about search and music. It was clever, informative, and all the things that we enjoy whilst perusing Google Reader. You should read it. Thankfully the good folks at AMP let us cross-post his words of wisdom here. If only all SEO Specialists could put search advice into easy-to-understand Lady Gaga references.

As someone who has spent the majority of my life around music, I recently wondered what it would be like if artists sacrificed their artistic integrity to make their songs more searchable within search engines. Call me a dork, but yes, this thought actually entered my brain and it intrigued me enough to write a blog about it. This idea would be terrible for musical integrity, but it would be great for sales and artist related search traffic.

So I thought about what some of the more popular music related search terms might be, and the first thing that came to mind was “love song.” Maybe it’s because I just got married, maybe it’s because Valentine’s Day just passed, or maybe it’s because I recently sang a karaoke version of “Endless Love” with our office manager Patty. Regardless of the reason, after researching the search volume of the term “love song,” I discovered that there are 2,240,000 monthly searches for that exact term across the world.

When you think of artists who made their living off love, who comes to mind? Luther Vandross? Lionel Ritchie? While I’m sure many of today’s 20-30 year olds were probably conceived to the music of these two men, neither Luther or Lionel were ever smart (or simple) enough to have a hit single called “Love Song.”
So naturally I asked, “who HAS had a single called ‘Love Song’”? The only 3 artists that came to mind were The Cure, Sara Bareilles, and 80’s rockers Tesla. After doing a quick Google search for the term “love song,” videos and lyrics for all 3 of these songs showed up on the first page of Google. That is pretty amazing considering the high search volume, and the number of popular love songs that exist. Tesla also had an album called “Bust a Nut,” but that’s a different search for a different day, on a different computer. Give them some slack…it was the 80’s. Tesla just might have predicted SEO would be huge while they were just learning Prodigy!

Sara Bareilles may have struck SEO gold with “Love Song,” but she sure didn’t gain any SEO points by keeping that last name. How many people do you really think can spell Bareilles? I know I had to look it up!

Note to Sara: There’s probably a reason why Lady Gaga doesn’t go by Stefani Germanotta. How about going by Sara Ellis? Just a thought…

Massachusetts College of Art and Design announced this morning that Dawn Barrett, Dean of Architecture and Design at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) will succeed Kay Sloan as the college's new president.

"'I’d like to use the unique positioning of MassArt to engage in the creative economy of this area, and increase the level of participation of our graduates in Boston civic life,’’ Barrett said in a phone interview yesterday. “I feel passionate about students’ right to an arts education.'"

This is a big announcement in the local design community and MassArt is sending a very strong message: design is the future of the creative industry.

Read the full Boston Globe article here.