SXSW Interactive kicks off tonight. Wes, against his better judgement, is going to the Linux Top Gun contest. I decided to skip out on the opening night for a variety of reasons, mostly to stay home with family, and because driving downtown just for an hour seemed a little silly.
SXSW is a weird mix of sessions. Here are some of the ones I plan to hit during the conference (my comments in parenthesis):
- David Weinberger, Small Pieces Loosely Joined (I haven't read the book)
- The Future: User-Centered Design Goes Mainstream (the future design process, with Jesse James Garrett)
- Doing Good Online: Innovative Ideas From Non-Profits on the Internet (moderated by Adaptive Path's Lane Becker, with Cory Doctorow)
- Journalism: Old vs. New (weblogs weblogs weblogs)
- Lawrence Lessig, Building a Layer of Sanity Into the World of IP (superhero)
- Conceptual Firewalls (inequalities and blogging)
- Computers vs. Blackboards: Net Learning or Not Learning? (almost too related to my work)
- Organizing the World's Information (Google employee)
- Deconstructing the Rich Interactive Experience (Flash MX blah)
- Beyond the Blog: The Future of Personal Publishing (Trott and more)
- Bruce Sterling, Tomorrow Now (haven't read this book either, but a fun way to close out the conference)
