I just went through the panel list for SXSW and again have had a hard time picking just one panel to go to. In general, I’m being drawn to the panels about collaboration, identity (which includes branding), networking, and making things. To distill it down even more, these seem to be largely the panels about the psychology of our daily experience, and what people are doing to transform it.

I’m really behind on prepping for the festival, but I grow more and more excited!!!

Friday, 9 March 2007

05:00PM How to Rawk SXSW (9ABC)

Saturday, 10 March 2007

10:00AM World Domination Via Collaboration (10AB)

11:30AM ARG! The Attack of the Alternate Reality Games (9C)
11:30AM Bridging the Online Cultural Divide (9AB)
11:30AM Turning Projects Into Revenue Generating Businesses (Ballroom F)

02:00PM Kathy Sierra Opening Remarks (18ABCD)
02:00PM Everything’s Gone Douglas Coupland (Day Stage)

03:30PM Stop Designing Products (10AB)
03:30PM Your Web Application as a Text Adventure (9AB)

04:05PM Beautiful Algorithms: Design from Nature and Mathematics (10AB)
04:05PM Web 2.0 / 3.0 ArtsEntrepreneurship.com: Make Your Passion Your Profession (Ballroom F)

05:00PM Boss Lady (10AB)
05:00PM Web 2.0 and Semantic Web: The Impact on Scientific Publishing (8ABC)

Sunday, 11 March 2007

10:00AM Every Breath You Take: Identity, Attention, Presence and Reputation (Ballroom F)
10:00AM Game Perverts: A Robot, a DS and a Dot Matrix Printer Menage a Trois (9C)
10:00AM Why We Should Ignore Users (18ABCD)

11:30AM Design Workflows at Work: How Top Designers Work Their Magic (18ABCD)
11:30AM Lonelygirl15 Case Study (12AB)
11:30AM Making Your Short Attention-Span Pay Big Dividends (19AB)
11:30AM Serious Games: Can Learning Be Hard Fun? (9AB)

02:00PM Keynote Conversation: Limor Fried / Phil Torrone (Hilton / Grand Ballroom)

03:30PM Deadlines, Clients and Cashflow: The Business Side of Web Design (18ABCD)
03:30PM Learning Interaction Design From Las Vegas (Ballroom F)
04:05PM Ten Ways to Run a Startup Like Genghis Khan (18ABCD)
04:05PM ValleySpeak for the Rest of Us: Developing Apps Outside InternetVille (9AB)

05:00PM Create a Campaign in an Hour (10AB)
05:00PM Distribution 2.0 (8ABC)
05:00PM “I’m Good, Really!”: Self-Marketing for the Freelance Web Geek (19AB)
05:00PM On the Edge of Independent User-Creation in Gamespace (9C)
05:00PM People-Powered Products (Ballroom F)

Monday, 12 March 2007

10:00AM Barenaked App: The Figures Behind the Top Web Apps (Ballroom F)
10:00AM Getting Girls Into The Game: Designing and Marketing Games for Female Players (9AB)
10:00AM Revisiting Commercial Open Source Business Models (8ABC)
10:00AM User Generated Content and Original Editorial: Friend or Foe (10AB)
10:00AM The 4-Hour Workweek: Secrets of Doing More with Less in a Digital World (Day Stage)

11:30AM Being a Coppola in the “Brookers” Era (12AB)
11:30AM Convergence Culture: A Conversation with Henry Jenkins (8ABC)
11:30AM Scaling Your Community (18ABCD)
11:30AM The Digital Ethnorati (9AB)
11:30AM The Future of the Online Magazine (19AB)

02:00PM Dan Rather Keynote Interview (Hilton / Grand Ballroom)
02:00PM When Does User-Generated Video Become Independent Filmmaking? (12AB)
02:00PM Writing for the Next Generation of Games (Ballroom F)

03:30PM Bootstrap Your Startup! (10AB)
03:30PM Journalism in the Blogosphere: A Legal Guide to Internet “Press” (8ABC)
03:30PM Warren Spector Presentation: The Future of Storytelling (9C)
03:30PM Why Marketers Need To Work With People Media (18ABCD)

04:05PM Alternadad Live! (9AB)
04:05PM The Invisible Blogosphere (8ABC)
04:05PM Virtual Teaming: Collaborating Across Time and Space (10AB)

05:00PM How to Create A Kickass In-House Design Team (18ABCD)
05:00PM Advergames: Making Your Brand More Fun (Day Stage)

Tuesday, 13 March 2007

10:00AM Customer Service is the New Marketing (Ballroom F)
10:00AM Open Knowledge vs. Controlled Knowledge (19AB)
10:00AM Pervasive Electronic Games (9C)
10:00AM Show Me The Money! Making Money From Independent Video Content? (12AB)
10:00AM The Future of the Book: Dead or Alive? (9AB)
10:00AM Web Typography Sucks (18ABCD)
10:00AM How to Make Your Ideas Stick (Day Stage)

11:30AM Design Aesthetic of the Indie Developer (Ballroom F)
11:30AM Preserving our Digital Legacy and the Individual Collector (8ABC)

02:00PM How to Easily Attract Your IDEAL Clients (Ballroom F)
02:00PM Music From the Masses: The Remix Revolution (12AB)
02:00PM Will Wright Keynote Speech (Hilton / Grand Ballroom)

03:30PM $100 Internet Businesses (Ballroom F)
03:30PM Girl Video Gamers Teach You the Facts About Successful Marketing (9C)
03:30PM Instructional Online Video – The Next Big Thing (10AB)

04:05PM Can Social Networking Build Your Brand? (8ABC)
04:05PM The New Business of Collectivism (Ballroom F)

05:00PM Bruce Sterling’s SXSW Rant (18ABCD)
05:00PM The Global Microbrand: Are Blogs, Suits and Wine the New Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll? (10AB)