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Hang Out with io9 at South By Southwest Festival

nutmeag — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:26:42 PST

Aww, now I want to go to SXSW even more! I've wanted to go ever since I moved to San Antonio . . . but my funds have never allowed it. Good luck with the panel, and have fun in my home state, Annalee!

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Kevin Kelly — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:22:31 PST

@DocGratis: It's actually all of the above. Think Sundance plus a music festival plus an interactive festival. Industry types and regular joes and all.

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Ed Grabianowski — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:08:06 PST

@RusM: I almost wrote a Master's Thesis about that.

Every year my band debates whether to submit to SXSW. It's a long trip for us, and the application fee's a little steep, and we lack ambition, so thus far we never have.

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DocGratis — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:24:12 PST

I am at once jealous and ...well ...thats it..

I have always been a little confused about this SXSW event? Is it an industry event? is it a music/movie/media festival? Who goes to it? Mostly industry people or do lots of 'normal' people?

Austin City Limits I get, this... I get confussed..

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Rus — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:09:16 PST

Cool.

If you haven't yet, check out what happened with some of the protests in Burma and Afghanistan late last year. In a nutshell, after the huge police crackdowns, protest organizers stopped trying to put together huge rallies and started staging smaller "lightning protests" using text messaging to congregate and disperse before the guys with the billy clubs arrived.

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