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SxSW 2006 Day 1 and 2

So my first expe­ri­ence at SxSW has been ter­rific so far. The chance to meet the per­son­al­i­ties I’ve known only as names until now is more fun than I expected.

After arriv­ing in Austin, check­ing into my hotel (the just-shy-of-decent-but-too-far-away-from-everything Welles­ley Inn on South IH35 (see how far away I was) and reg­is­ter­ing at the Con­ven­tion Cen­ter (I’ll be hon­est, I walked around the entire south side before I fig­ured out I was on the wrong side of the block… stop laugh­ing…), most of Fri­day was spent walk­ing around Austin with Gar­rett, Wade and some guy named Carl (both are on one of Monday’s pan­els), and even­tu­ally meet­ing up (and hav­ing a few drinks with) folks like Eris, Matthew, Mike, Mike, Keith, Scrivs, and a bunch of other insanely cool peo­ple (apolo­gies to those I can’t quite remem­ber, after the two shots of “moon­shine” some­time dur­ing the after­noon, things started to get a wee bit hazy…)

Many cool dis­cus­sions were had, some about our indus­try of choice, oth­ers about every­thing else (there’s some­thing else?). Foos­ball was played, drinks were had, women were admired (and in some cases, ogled), and in all, for a day with no planned con­fer­ence events, it was a great start. Except for the whole “get­ting up in the morn­ing for the actual pan­els” part. Oh, and dodge­ballis a must for fig­ur­ing out where every­one is at any given time.

Day 2

And speak­ing of pan­els, Stan, Khoi, Mark, Toni and Liz did a nice job to start the day with Tra­di­tional Design and New Tech­nol­ogy. Short ver­sion: the panel mostly advo­cates more “clas­sic” art direc­tion in web design, though their indi­vid­ual ideas of how/when/who dif­fer slightly. Always inter­est­ing to hear var­ied opin­ions on reach­ing the same end result. Sat next to (and finally met) Dave, and met Stan, Jeff and Chris Mills from Apress/Friends of Ed after the discussion.

Next up was Andy and Andy, the “dynamic duo” with How to Be a Web Design Super­hero. Mostly fluff, but fun fluff, and of course any­thing pre­sented with an Eng­lish accent just sounds more impor­tant and offi­cial to begin with.

Next up, after a quick lunch, will be Jason and Jim’s open­ing remarks, which I’m def­i­nitely look­ing for­ward to.

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Saturday, March 11th, 2006.

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