Posts Tagged ‘sxsw’

March 22, 2008

Worst of the Worst from SXSWi

I’m a little late getting to this but I just recently discovered Scott Monty’s Social Media Martketing Blog.  In it, he has a great overview of what sounds like it was a really fun and informative SXSWi panel:
“I just sat in on a panel called “The Suxorz - the Worst of the Worst in Social [...]

March 15, 2008

The Agency Dilemma

There is some good coverage from the SXSW panel  “The Web Agency: There Will Be Blood”.  
Over on the Digital Design Blog a panelist has posted some his thoughts:

“On the whole, we tended to agree that the notion of just creating digital extensions of the 30-second spot was headed for the dustbin and that, clearly, would put [...]

March 13, 2008

SXSW Likes “The Guild”

One of my favorite independent webisodics, The Guild, was awarded the best original production at the SXSWi’s first-ever Greenlight Awards competition.
The Guild is a clever show that follows the lives a members of a World of Warcraft guild.  If that premise alone doesn’t get you interested, this is probably not the series for you - [...]

March 12, 2008

The Music Debate Plays On

There was a panel on ad-supported music at SXSWi and lots of folks are weighing in.
PaidContent has some pretty extensive coverage leading with:
“If what this question means is “can ad-supported music replace album sales on a dollar-for-dollar basis”, then the answer is a resounding no. Nobody on the panel held this view, and nothing in [...]

March 11, 2008

Cuban Questions Eisner as SXSWi

The billionaire-owner of an NBA franchise interviewed the man who once ran Disney about value and future of web content. This is probably more important for the fact that these two guys think this is a serious area to be discussing than what they actually discussed.
However, PaidContent has some coverage for all of us. [...]

March 11, 2008

But Who’s Watching the Bee-Watcher-Watcher?

Out in Austin there is a little festival that you might have heard of called SXSW and it has been growing like crazy with their SXSWi sideshow featuring all sorts of “new media” folks.
Thanks to the combination of lots of tech savvy attendees and a huge growth in web video technology over the last year, [...]