Much has been made recently of the dangers of texting and using social media while driving, but what about while trying to produce a newsletter?

For your safety, this DR is long on Natural Hazards Center announcements and short on articles. That's because we're once again in Austin for the giant media conference South by Southwest Interactive, where we're hoping to pick up more new tricks to make DR, the Observer, the Natural Hazards Library, and Workshop more useful—and yes, more fun.

But we also have a lot to tell you about this week: there's a new Observer, the student paper competition is now open, and of course we still have new resources, conferences, and jobs that can't wait.

So we'll look forward to seeing you again in two weeks, when we'll be back in Boulder full of new ideas—and able to focus.