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18/03/05

SXSW: Panels

Jeffrey Veen and Tantek Celik were both superb speakers who engaged me and made me think. I was also extremely impressed by John Allsopp, who led, moderated and glued together the discussions on “What will Web Design be like in 2010?” with a compelling passion of the subject. There just wasn’t enough time to cover the subject adequately in the hour, but fortunately, Dave Shea has created a minisite where discussion of the questions raised can continue.

Andy Budd and Jeremy Keith made their SXSW debut with the excellent “How to bluff your way in CSS” where the irony was (fortunately) not lost on the crowd. “I’m thinking of buying a Mac” became a useful catchphrase at the conference.

As seems to be the case with panels, there were often 3 or 4 events clashing. I missed out on panels such as “Where are the women in web design?”, “Trick out your Blog”, “Doing big things with Small Teams” and “Flash for mobile devices”. I think SXSW missed a trick by not creating podcasts of all the panels and making them available to attendees. This would’ve been a great way to at least get the flavour of the ones you had miss out on. Or are they lurking somewhere I haven’t come across yet?

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Tim Callahan said 1358 days ago:

Jon, I’m glad your enjoying SXSW, I wish i could be there. I’de be interested in reading some reviews/actual panel speeches in the future. Do you know if any of the speeches will be documented?

Jack said 1358 days ago:

That podcast idea is so obvious!

I sure hope somebody actually bothered to do it.

Jeremy Flint said 1358 days ago:

I heard rumors floating around that podCasts of the panels available sometime in April. Just a rumor. Have seen no confirmation of it, but even better if it turns out to be true.

Sandor Weisz said 1358 days ago:

I got a whole heck of a lot out of the panels, but there were still some that I just couldn’t make, either due to conflicts or overflowing conference rooms. I wish SXSW would adopt a trend I’ve seen at other conferences, where the last panel session of the whole conference is reserved for a “Best Of” slate. The idea being that the five or six highest-rated panels of the previous four days would be repeated for those who didn’t get to see them the first time around.