Category: 2011

SXSW expands and goes Eco

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SXSW Eco will provide an open and creative space for experienced, passionate and pragmatic professionals to network with a diverse group of influential organizations and individuals, while contributing to cutting-edge discussion. The conference will feature a mix of sessions, including keynote presentations, panels, and core-conversations. Session ideas submitted via the SXSW Eco website will be considered by SXSW Eco staff as well as the SXSW Eco Advisory Board. Now this is interesting, initially on two fronts. The first is that there is now a SXSW conference in October, and the second is that it’s an expansion of the brand into

Why BlogWorld worked, even if it was new to New York

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So, last week I was in New York for the first East Coast version of the BlogWorld and New Media Expo. In many respects this was another conference in the same mould as those that have gone before, but in other respects this felt like starting over again. With the move away from the West Coast (and really, Las Vegas is nothing more than a weekend break for Silicon Valley) there was a different vibe in the air, a lot of new faces, and some old friends as well. From the new discoveries such as Web Doc to the continuing

Let’s meet up at BlogWorld New York

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At least I got a little break from the travelling. With the Eurovision Song Contest now over for another year (you can find a list of all the Eurovision coverage I contributed to here) it’s time to hit the road again and seek out some new challenges and ideas. And the best place for that sort of recharge, frankly, is in the company of lots of creative bloggers, writers, podcasters and entrepreneurs. Thankfully just such an even is happening next week, albeit in New York. Yes, it’s the first BlogWorld to take place on the East Coast, and I’ll be

SXSW 2011 Thoughts: Interactive

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There’s no getting away from the big issue of this year’s South by Southwest Interactive was the size of the conference. With close to 20,000 attendees, all the official hotels sold out (something that Interactive has managed that the Music Festival hasn’t), and multiple hotels around the city of Austin holding conference sessions throughout the day, there is no doubt that SXSW Interactive is just mind-bogglingly huge. Was it worthwhile? That’s always tough, because everyone is going to go to Interactive wanting to get different things out of SXSW. This year I was doing a mix of reporting what was

Thoughts from SXSW: Scottish Television coverage

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Now that the jetlag is under control (if not yet full banished) it’s time to look back on my time at South by Southwest 2011, some thoughts, and what happens next. First up though, a relatively slow pitch up the middle with links to my coverage of SXSW for STV. Introduction to SXSW: Music, Film and Online worlds combine. Music: Kid Canaveral set to use SXSW as their launch pad. Rachel Sermanni discusses the excitement of SXSW. Withered Hand is making his mark on SXSW by the power of Twitter. Interactive: Scottish company Lingo24 plans to take the States by

The SXSW Killer App will be “Is Scoble In This Room?”

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Before I start, all my thanks to Tom Scott for this one. I came up with the original spark of an idea, and Tom picked up the gauntlet for the coding. Brickbats to me, bouquets to him, please! Not to steal the thunder of companies like #Hashable, GroupMe or anyone else launching or debuting at South by Southwest, but there’s a bigger problem to be solved. So after the bolt of lightning moment, the thinking around the idea went a bit like this. It seems to me that at SXSW interactive people either want to show Robert Scoble  a new