Brothers in Kilts in Austin

Today’s ‘Mantra of the Day’ over on the SXSW Interactive website is…
Brothers in kilts.
Whoever could they mean?

(Thanks to Des Walsh for the heads up).

Two Podcasts For Your Enjoyment

I’m resting up in New York after the marathon SXSW Coverage, so while I’ve done pretty much nothing physicalfor two days, have a listen to these two podcasts.
The first is the latest in the TPN Rock Takeover shows, where I ask internet ‘names’ and podcasters to try their hand at doing the unsigned, unknown, and [...]

SXSW Interactive 2007 – Panel Retrospective

South by Southwest Interactive 2007 is a funny conference to look back on. After all it had the main elements that you need, namely lots of influential people mixed with new ides, new attendees, and an open approach from everyone. There were enough evening parties to mix everyone up thoroughly, but no so many that [...]

Ricky Campbell’s First Stunt Was Shit…

…but just like the stunt that makes his dad (Randy) proud, there’s a fine piece of Midnight Movie Extravaganza in what I’m calling my pick of the SXSW Films: The Devil Dared Me To!. Over to IMDB for the spoiler safe outline…
A stunt-fuelled action-comedy from the Kiwi cult-comedy team Back of the Y, “The Devil [...]

SXSW Music, TPN Rock and Deja Voodoo

THey always say you just stumble across a band at SXSW Music by chance that become your band. And while two of the acts in this week’s TPN Rock from SXSW could have been those, the prize of “Best Band Of The Fest” goes to the New Zealand rockers Deja Voodoo.

You won’t catch them on [...]

“Can Art Survive Google Panel” at SXSW

All I have to say is if this panel had been on Monday or Tuesday, it would have set the blogosphere alight. Folks, this is what we’re up against, and very few Daniels came to see the Lion. I’ll just post my notes from the session for you all to see (exs tags are my [...]

SXSW News – Syndication at SXSW Baby and Harry Knowles (Ain’t It Cool)

SXSW is going well, two highlights podcast wise for me today. First of all the biggest SXSW Blog, SXSW Baby, is now carrying all the SXSW Podcasts on a dedicated page, and also in a Flash Player on every sidebar. Excellent news – putting niche content from TPN on niche content websites. Works for everyone, [...]

American Breakfasts

Those of you who know me realise that one of the things that I love in the US is the American ‘Diner’ Breakfast. The sort of Breakfast that would cost the fatbloggers three days of everything (and come April I reallly need to start doing that as well), but gives me enough oomph to get [...]

Travelling to Austin

And I’m here. Left the house in Edinburgh just before 7am, opend the door on the room in Austin just before 10pm. Add in the delights of a six hour time difference, and time on the road was 21 hours. And most of t was pretty smooth, no panic, no rush.
Edinburgh Airport pretty much set [...]

[March 07] SXSW Film

The final branch of the triumverate that is SXSW is the SXSW Film Festival. It runs for pretty much the whole time of SXSW (Interactive is four days or so at the start, while music runs almost ten days) and has an impressive list of feature films (120), short films (120), and of those, 60 [...]

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