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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

Some thoughts as the Fringe ends for another year

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And that’s that. The Edinburgh Fringe Podcast, one of the most high profile, enjoyable podcasts that I do in the year can be put away till about March next year – that’s when people start to email me asking if I’ll be doing it again. How about some numbers to put this year’s run in perspective: 31 podcasts, made up of.. 22 regular shows 5 preview shows 3 Sunday specials and 1 “Top Ten” clip show (which only has two clips actually repeated from other podcasts) The podcasts featured 19 musical acts 1 poetry recital 1 rap 58 ‘studio’ interviews

Thoughts On My Current Eurovision Coverage

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Covering the Eurovision Song Contest this year is proving fun, if not a teensy bit more tiring than an event like SXSW Interactive (to put it into some perspective for many of you). The coverage is breaking down into roughly four areas, and all of them have a different tone and aim. I thought I’d go over them while ‘in situ.’ Blogging at The Stage Although informal, these still have a tone of authority, and a decidedly pro-British viewpoint. probably the closest to the traditional view of ‘reporting.’ Al the coverage can be found here Various Individual Articles Two that

A Moscow State of Mind

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It would be wrong to say that I’ve spent the weekend in Moscow, because most of my time has either been at the Eurovision Stadium, or at the various parties organised by each country, but I’ve been travelling around a fair bit both on foot and on public transport. It’s impressive that on the escalators in the Metro nobody is running up one side, like you see in London – everyone just stands there. Okay they’re as long as the escalators at Angel, but still this is just weird. I also had to raise my eyes at the amount of