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South by Southwest 2006 Interactive Panels Podcast

SXSW has begun posting panel podcasts from the 2006 interactive festival. Unfortunately, similar to the Carson Workshops Summit podcast, they aren’t really producing a podcast. Instead, they are offering audio files that can be downloaded. As Jeremy Keith pointed out, a podcast is an XML file, not an audio format. The SXSW podcast page does […]

Attending SXSW 2006 Virtually

Although I can’t be at SXSW this year, I’m doing my best to attend virtually. I’m watching for photos, blog posts, podcasts… anything I can get my hands on. if you have anything to share, just let me know. I’ll be tracking key findings here:
Some key items:
Local boy Will Pate chillin’ at the pub.
Don’t mess […]

A Great Description of SXSW

Although I have a vested interest in convincing people that SXSW is much more than a multi-day party, this Valleywag description of the interactive festival has to be the best I’ve seen:
It’s like Burning Man with clothes on…
Sadly, I won’t be able to attend this year’s event—things are just too busy at the moment and […]

Days 3 & 4 of SXSW

I started day 3 with “Does Design Matter” and enjoyed listening to Joe Clark’s insights. He really is fun to listen to. Next was “How to Inform Design” with Jeff Veen and Kit Seeborg. It was interesting to see that Jeff spends more time talking to users than he does crunching numbers-it seems to be […]

Day Two of SXSW

My day 2 started slowly, most likely because of the late night the evening before.

Eric Meyer’s “Emergent Semantics” session was an interesting talk about something him and his colleagues call microformats. I don’t know the detail or the full background, but XFN is an example he gave.
Others he discussed were hCalendar and hCard, […]

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