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[...] an event like SXSW is the feeling of motivation and–as David Seah so aptly put it — ‘Rededication’. Almost everyone I talked with at SXSW said they were newly inspired. Was it from the ideas they [...]
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Kathy Sierra has been attending conferences for 20 years, but speaking at them only for the past few. In the following passage from her blog, she describes why so many of us climb aboard cramped airplanes for hours on end......
- Mafe Maria • The Jewels of SXSWi
[...] South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) is getting mixed reviews this year. My personal opinion? The 2007 conference was not as good as past years, but it still managed to leave me with several interesting nuggets of inspiration. Rob Foster, one of the guys with whom I went to Austin this year, has posted a very good article on what he thinks went wrong. I can’t agree more with him, and wish that those who made mistakes will pay more attention to the criticism of those who attended, and less to the fanatic praise and blind pats on the back from fans who stayed. So, in respect for my largely non-geeky audience, I won’t attempt to articulate the reason why I found several panels as a royal waste or my time. Instead, I’ll do like Dave Seah and focus on the positive, and share with you the few non-geeky gems I was able to extract after four days of panels. [...]
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