March 14th, 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 Heath. Fighting dodgy wifi and 3G connections we managed something and it was good but [...]
March 12th, 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 for the last 10 years and giving me the justification and confidence to turn it [...]
March 6th, 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 that I have little interest in. It’s a huge event, after all, and you can [...]
March 2nd, 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 work but it was a useful experiment. This year for various reasons Stef can’t make [...]
January 21st, 2009 |
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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 to do were pretty incompatible and the requirements not worth my while. I’m definitely going to [...]
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