Not long before leaving for SXSW, I had posted some some thoughts and notes about ‘the backchannel’. The timing turned out to be pretty good, since the talk within and around SXSW became pretty much all about the various uses of backchannels during the conference. Twitter (which was discovered by many people at SXSW last […]
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SXSW day 5 – Soulja Boy
Jane McGonigal gave a wonderful keynote on games and ARGs. Not dissimilar to her ‘Reality is Open’ presentation at GDC recently, so these are not her SXSW slides, but there’s an overlap. | View | Upload your own Other people have made excellent notes already, which are much more complete than my own. Here are […]
SXSW day 4 – Lots of Random Things
Matt Biddulph accused me of “blogging like it’s 2003” this week (long posts, complete with photos and video clips). Personally, I thought I’d been very lazy by not tidying up my notes from the sessions and including them too (yet) but all of that will come later. Perhaps in digested form I’m typing so fast […]
SXSW day 3 – Laptop Tattoos and the Accordion Guy
Austin Laser Art were at the Screenburn arcade yesterday and today, offering free laser etching on iPods, Moleskine notebooks, laptops, and in fact pretty much anything you handed them. They offered a book full of designs, or you could email in your own EPS file. I found this lovely Transformers logo, which they quickly used […]
SXSW day 2 – Worst Website Ever
Even more interesting and wonderful things at SXSW today. I saw the Rocketboom gang sitting behind me in a panel on video blogging (at which Bre Pettis was presenting). Later I watched Corey Bridges ranting eloquently on the future of gaming and virtual worlds (“Sucks to be you, media oligopolists”), and Dan Hon being similarly […]
SXSW day 1 – Battledecks
Day 1, and the first job was to pick up the bag and directory. There are a lot of bags waiting to be picked up. I took in a couple of panels in the afternoon. In between them, the interactive playpen – a huge pile of Lego under the escalators – attracted children, playful geeks, […]
SXSW day 0 – travel day
I was picked up at 8:30am this morning by something not quite fancy enough to be called a limo, but in a different league than a regular taxi. We could perhaps ignore my non executive status and call it an executive chauffeur service. Hursley Cars offer a great, reliable door-to-door service. Enjoyably lazy on the […]
(Rough) plans for SXSW 2008
I’m packing for SXSW tomorrow (Thursday) morning. I’ve pulled together a (rough) schedule, thanks to the lovely SCHED (sched.org). This is a bit more complete than my previous list of things-not-to-miss. Of course, that list still contains the panel I’m sitting on (‘Stories, Games and Your Brand’) with Rachel Clarke, Jeremy Ettinghausen and Dan Hon. […]
Five SXSWi panels I’m looking forward to
It’s still a long way off, but for your interest (and my own reference) here are some panels I won’t be missing at South By Southwest in Austin this year… Saturday, March 8 – 11:30 AM – The Future of Virtual World & Game Development: Rise of the Indies (Corey Bridges) Sunday, March 9 – […]
50 word bio
I’ve been asked to provide a 50 word bio and a photo for SXSW next year (I’m a panelist. Yay!). 50 words is quite short, and it made me think about the wording very carefully. Roo Reynolds is a Metaverse Evangelist based at IBM UK’s Hursley Park laboratory. For the past two years he has […]