The iPad pre-order madness began this morning at 5:30 a.m. PST, but has the bloom fallen off the iPad for Seth Goldstein?

The co-founder of SocialMedia tweeted earlier this week that he’s “no longer amazed by the ipad” and attached a blog post stating, “The Blackberry has always been the best device for reading and writing email.”

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Good thing Anna Kendrick’s character from “Up in the Air” didn’t try firing people via VoIP while up in the air. Federated Media chairman John Battelle tried to talk to his kids on iChat while on a United Airlines flight, according to his tweets, and was told “cameras not allowed.” (Coincidentally, the film showing in-flight was … “Up in the Air.”) Prompting two “WTF?”s from Mr. Battelle.

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Just in case you’ve been living under a router, South by Southwest (SXSW) kicks off this week in Austin, Texas, where entrepreneurs and established names from the music, film, interactive, and tech world converge for geek speak, panels and parties. It’s where Twitter entered the scene in 2007, where @Foursquare started to make its mark in 2009, and where everyone, this year, will be looking to the next noteworthy consumer technology service to move beyond the tech crowd, reach critical mass and still grapple with profitability.

Laura Fitton, CEO of oneforty.com, tweeted about the must-use Twitter apps for SXSW, while Chris Dixon, co-founder of hunch.com, offered a “sxsw panel picker helper”

Author and video blogger Gary Vaynerchuk is just bringing “straight thunder.”

Hopefully, by “thunder,” he means bandwidth. Darren Bounds, co-founder of Cliqset, tweeted this morning about failing Internet connectivity at the fest.

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Not everyone was tweeting from the big-barbecue-disguised-as-business, though. Brooke Hammerling, founder of Brew Media Relations, walked into a New York bar and saw something that resulted in this tweet: “Head explodes. Heart races. Not in a good way. Should leave.”

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