Category Archives: SXSWi

Barcamps are (probably) easy

Posted on March 14, 2009

I experienced a couple of related things today at SXSW. At 1.30pm I connected back home using Skype to WXWM where 30 Brummies were running their own mini SouthBy in the upstairs room of the Kitchen Garden Cafe in Kings … Continue reading →

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SXSWi bound

Posted on March 12, 2009

As you probably have gathered by now I’m off to Austin tomorrow for the South by Southwest Interactive festival, or SXSWi. I went last year and, without exaggeration, it pretty much changed my life, contextualising everything I’d been thinking about … Continue reading →

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My SXSWi schedule, premilinary stage

Posted on March 6, 2009

Last year I tried the “remote delegate” model of asking people which panels they’d like me to attend on their behalf. It sort of worked but didn’t take into account that there are plenty of things going on at SXSWi … Continue reading →

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SXSWM Reborn

Posted on March 2, 2009

Last year, when a bunch of us from the West Mids went to SXSW Interactive, Stef set up a site to aggregate out various blog posts, photos, videos and Twitter updates. It sort of worked and it sort of didn’t … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing SXSWi support

Posted on January 21, 2009

Donate using Paypal I’ve decided not to accept any official funding to go to SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas this March. As the application processes went on it became apparent that what they wanted to fund and what I wanted … Continue reading →

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