Greetings and welcome from Austin, Texas, home to the annual South By Southwest Music, Film & Interactive conference. I'm hitting up a bunch of Interactive panels, all dealing with social media and journalism in the era of new media —the past, present and future of the Internet. Here's coverage of the six days of geekdom (scroll to bottom of post to see more pics and live video):
DAY 5 – Tuesday, March 16:
Here's out live video feed from Austin. Stay tuned for updates:
It's the day of our panel discussion, Web-First Publishing: How Alt Weeklies Can Survive, and we're prepping some slides. We plan to live broadcast the video feed right here at 6:00 p.m. EST, so stay tuned. If there's a glitch, we'll throw the video up after we talk.
Last night the rains came to Texas which only seemed to force the already teeming mass of techies indoors and into the many tiny bars and clubs that line 6th St. One of them, La Zona Rosa, played host to fellow "alt-weekly" Austin Chronicle and their annual Film Bash, complete with 30-piece funk band.
DAY 4 – Monday, March 15:
This article appears in Mar 17-23, 2010.