SXSW Day 1

March 14, 2009 - 01:14

A few notes about SXSW on day 1:

  1. If you register for Interactive, Film and Music, you get three bags. That's a lot of bags. So is this:
  2. Fedora's aren't just optional, they're a tad bit necessary:
  3. In any given question and answer period, at least one of the following two fun-sucks will ask a question:
    (1) Security guy
    (2) Accessibility guy
    Look. We're talking about new, interesting shit on the internet. You don't need to ruin it with your questions about security and accessibility. We'll get to that stuff when we need to. Sit down. Stop asking those questions.

Saw some very inspiring and interesting stuff today: A cool presentation on emerging user interfaces (one panelist a former 10 yr ILM veteran), a talk on adding Easter eggs to sites to enhance user excitement by one of the guys from clearleft and a presentation on industrial-design-driven bike sharing by Alex Bogusky of Crispin, Porter and Bogusky who is, apparently, a big deal. All three were excellent.