Category: 2010

The SXSW Baby Podcasts

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During SXSW I’ve been in my usual routine of grabbing interviews for profile pieces, magazine features on the things I’m getting up to, and of course running some podcasting interviews for the SXSW Baby blog. As the conference closes, here’s the master list of interviews, with direct links to the MP3 files if you don’t want to play around with the RSS feed. Interactive Ed Hunsinger (www.geeked.info) – MP3 Dennis Crowley (Foursquare) – MP3 Ian Schaffer (www.deepfocus.net) – MP3 Marshall Kirkpatrick (www.readwriteweb.com) – MP3 Film American, the Bill Hicks Story (www.americanthemovie.com) – MP3 Audrey the Trainwreck (SXSW Film listing) –

How to get in touch with me at SXSW

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I’m all hooked up with a US mobile now (you’ll find out exactly how in an upcoming All About Symbian Video Diary), but the good side of this is that I am now far easier to reach while i am in the US, and around the conference halls and clubs of South by Southwest from Thursday evening. My UK mobile will be on at all times, and I’d naturally prefer texts to that. The number is +44 7966 152772. I’m also carrying a US mobile now, and the number is 415-370-6542. If you need to call me from the US,

Walking Over a Digital Grave

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As part of SXSW, I contribute to the SXSW Baby website with a daily podcast from the conference floor. Because of that, and like many at SXSW, I came under the wonderful embrace of Brad Graham. Brad suddenly died in January, which has put a tinge of sadness over SXSW for many, including myself. The tradition of “Break Bread with Brad” on the first night of SXSW ran for almost ten years, and while he won’t be with us this year, Break Bread For Brad will be on the first night of SXSW as usual. More details are on the

Download your SXSW Music Highlights

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While you could sit on the SXSW Music website and listen to all the bands there (or be pushed towards their MySpace pages), that’s a lot of music to listen to. With SXSW rapidly approaching you might not have the time to get through all the bands. But never fear, the web is here. Simon D, on his Outroversion website, has went through the bands and culled out 85 tracks that he believes are the highlights of SXSW. Not only that, but he’s wrapped them all up in one archive file for you to download onto your MP3 player of

Geeks on a Plane

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When you have so many people converging on one location, such as SXSW Interactive, there’s always some synchronising of travel plans, and it looks like the Brits have decided that flying in to Dallas, and then taking the American Airlines hop to Austin is the way to travel. It’s the Dallas to Austin to flight at 1615 on Thursday 11th March (AA 1701), and strangely enough, even though I’m travelling from San Francisco and not Heathrow, I’ll be joining this flight with at least six other Brits. There may well be others that I don’t know about, as well as

The little things needed for an American trip

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With the US trip for SXSW  and GDC approaching, I’[m working down my list of packing, and as usual it’s getting the little things right that make all the difference for the trip. Little things like these: In-flight entertainment It’s been a long time since I was at the mercy of whatever gets put on the monitors or seat back video machines on an aircraft, thanks to the Sony PSP. In the run up to a trip I’ll be thinking about what would be good to watch on both the big eleven hour trip from London to the West Coast