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SXSW Day 6: Still Going Strong

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Alrighty, the Interactive portion is done, but I’m still going strong.  Please head on over to Helping Zero Knives Enter You, my music blog, for a roundup of what music I’m checking out for SXSW.  In the meantime, I’ll be blasting the panels I will attend during the day before rocking out at night.

The only panel I made yesterday talked about how people will listen to music in 2020.  Some representatives from SoundCloud and Last.fm were there as well as some other music industry types.  They talked about how streaming is the big uptake now.  They were quick to point out that it will fall in line with a preference rather than a dominating choice.  The question of money came up not only for streaming but also for terrestial radio and it provided for some heated discussion.  I can know see the point of of view for charging radio stations to pay for per play licensing like interent radio.

So that’s about it.  The music yesterday was awesome and I encourage you to check out this blog as well as my music blog to follow along.  Peace!

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SXSW Day 5: Ramping Down Then Ramping Up

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Day 5 of this mish mash of culture here in Austin and SXSW left me experiencing a true intermission.  The Ineractive portion winded down while the Music portion is winding up.  I took the opportunity to head out the lobby and get myself a drink.  Speaking of drink, the early morning rain scared us from walking to SXSW and we ended up taking a cab to catch the afternoon’s events.  Even though I had a small number of panels, it ended up being very beneficial and marked a great transition to the Music portion of the show.   Oh, and the closing party rocked.

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SXSW Day 4: Full Day Fanatacism

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Okay, so I kicked this one off a little later than usaul, but that’s because I logged in the fullest day so far here at SXSW.  The official tally is 6 panels, 2 happy hours, and 1 wet party.  I’m a little under the weather this morning but that’s due to the massive amount of stuff that I and my lovely girlfriend did and the rain storm that hit us last night.  Don’t fret, however, we are taking it easy this morning and heading back down to the convention center to try and make a couple of more panels and keynotes on the last day of the Interactive portion of SXSW.  There’s much to go over, so I’ll try to make it condensed.

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SXSW Day 3: Keep On Trucking

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Okay Day 3 is over and as I’m drying off from the quick hot tub dunkin’, I’ll blast off another recap for ya.  Today saw a crazy start with the time change.  Once we finally got into the sessions, we got back on track, even though some of the panels were disappointing.  The SXSW Block Party helped pick things back up real fast.  Tonight I finally decided that the film portion of SXSW just isn’t all that cracked up to be.  More discovery on another day of SXSW, here we go!

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SXSW Day 2: Ball Rolled. Confirmed.

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Whoah nelly, this guy it pooped!  Today was the first full day of conference snaction down here in Austin for SXSW and I now know what this whole thing is about.  From thoughtful collaboration, genuine inspiration, to a closing night ceremony, I finally experienced all that I imagined I would when attending this conference.  As I struggle to type out a recap of the day, I gotta smile a big grin.  To be this tired after day 2 means that I will exhaust myself to the limits and come away with a total conference experience.

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