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TV at SXSW Interactive
If you see me roaming around the Austin Convention Center or any of the other downtown venues teeming with SXSWers over the next five or six days, say hello — I’ll be among the throng of Statesman staff covering the annual event.
Why send the TV guy to a tech gathering? It turns out that television — in both its technological creeping into the online world and its increasing interactivity with social media — continues to grow in importance as a Festival topic.
If you catch me on Friday, I’ll be the excited, eager, smiling fellow attending lots of TV-related panels.
By late Saturday, I will be the weary, dragging guy wearing a scowl and trying to find a free plug to charge up his MacBook between lots of TV-related panels.
Sunday morning, thanks to the extra hour of sleep provided by the end of daylight savings time, I will again be the excited, eager dude attending lots of TV-related panels.
By Tuesday night, I will resemble one of the zombies from AMC’s “The Walking Dead.”
Here are some of the (mostly TV-related) panels and events I expect to be covering during the Interactive portion of SXSW. You will be able to find my write-ups shortly after each concludes over on the Digital Savant Blog:
- Fan to Fanatic: True Blood’s Marketing Hook
- Hate Gone Viral
- It’s Not TV, It’s Social TV
- Social Media is Science Fiction
- RockLive Presents: SXSW ScreenBurn Mike Tyson Meet & Greet
- Old Spice Resurrected: How Aging Icon Pwned Internet
- Subtle Sexuality: NBC.com Adds Spice to Shows
- Barry Diller Shares Insight on All Things Media
- SXSW keynote: Felicia Day
- TV Networks Extending Interactivity for Fans
- SXSW meet up: Convergence with Turner Broadcasting
- Practically Funny: How Alternative Comedy Kings Have Learned To Reach the Masses
- What We Really Want In Web TV
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By Donna B.
March 12, 2011 9:55 AM | Link to this
If you're full tilt into it, you'll be a zombie by Sunday to include one hour less of sleep from the change. But if it's your first time, you should have fun. Will be interesting to read your article on your first time there.