The SXSW Baby Podcasts

During SXSW I’ve been in my usual routine of grabbing interviews for profile pieces, magazine features on the things I’m getting up to, and of course running some podcasting interviews for the SXSW Baby blog. As the conference closes, here’s the master list of interviews, with direct links to the MP3 files if you don’t [...]

How to get in touch with me at SXSW

I’m all hooked up with a US mobile now (you’ll find out exactly how in an upcoming All About Symbian Video Diary), but the good side of this is that I am now far easier to reach while i am in the US, and around the conference halls and clubs of South by Southwest from [...]

Walking Over a Digital Grave

As part of SXSW, I contribute to the SXSW Baby website with a daily podcast from the conference floor. Because of that, and like many at SXSW, I came under the wonderful embrace of Brad Graham. Brad suddenly died in January, which has put a tinge of sadness over SXSW for many, including myself.
The tradition [...]

Download your SXSW Music Highlights

While you could sit on the SXSW Music website and listen to all the bands there (or be pushed towards their MySpace pages), that’s a lot of music to listen to. With SXSW rapidly approaching you might not have the time to get through all the bands. But never fear, the web is here.
Simon [...]

Geeks on a Plane

When you have so many people converging on one location, such as SXSW Interactive, there’s always some synchronising of travel plans, and it looks like the Brits have decided that flying in to Dallas, and then taking the American Airlines hop to Austin is the way to travel.
It’s the Dallas to Austin to flight [...]

The little things needed for an American trip

With the US trip for SXSW  and GDC approaching, I’[m working down my list of packing, and as usual it’s getting the little things right that make all the difference for the trip. Little things like these:
In-flight entertainment
It’s been a long time since I was at the mercy of whatever gets put on the monitors [...]

British Airways Strikes, GDC and SXSW

Here’s how to avoid industrial action impacting on your plans to get from the UK to either GDC in San Francisco on March 8th, or SXSW in Austin starting on March 11th.
Don’t fly British Airways.
Now that might be a bit unfair, but unless you were paying attention when you booked your tickets to fly out [...]

The TED Conference, Elitism and South by Southwest

Sara Lacy laid into the rise of even more elitism on display at the TED conference last week, but this quote, from her rant about the TED conference caught my eye:
Now when the day’s sessions are done there’s a hierarchy of parties throughout the LA-area with strict lists and security. Cliques within cliques, if you [...]

SXSW Interactive Social Breakfast – 2010 Edition

As South by Southwest looms on the events horizon, all the little bits and pieces of other smaller parties and get together that are happening in Austin pop up. The Social Breakfast is my contribution to the calendar of SXSW Interactive.
This year is the third official year of the breakfast, and as always the premise [...]

Getting yourself organised for SXSW 2010

So the broad strokes are now in place. This weekend I booked my flights to Austin and South by Southwest 2010 (and added a few days in San Francisco and The Valley – get in touch if you want to ‘do coffee’); the hotel room was reserved as I left Austin last year (forward planning, [...]

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