The Cocktail Napkin Videos

My very first [SXSW]( sxsw.com ) experience is now in the history books. I had an amazing time, but the sheer volume of experiences and information that was crammed into 5 days was a little overwhelming. I needed a little time to process everything that happened so that I could articulate it properly and hopefully have a cohesive point of view to tie it all together. I think I achieved that. With that figured out, I realized that I'd better get to making my recap video before: a) I started to forget the details of my experience, and b) It became too late to publish as a piece of relevant content. I decided to take a slightly different angle to summarizing my time in Austin. Most people will focus on the technologies and innovations that they heard about and discussed. And, while that's a vital part of SXSW and I am also interested in those aspects of the conference, I wanted to focus on something different. Every technology, application, social service or other shiny widget is useless without engaging people to use them. In order to engage those people, you've got to have a big idea and a story to tell that helps people to see why they should jump onto your particular interactive bandwagon. So, I decided to focus on how creative people can better convey their interactive ideas in an environment where the time and attention to process those ideas is ridiculously scarce. Hilarity ensues. Panels/Official Parties I attended: Battledecks 2010: my.sxsw.com/?events/?event/?7284 (Podcast: audio.sxsw.com/?2010/?podcasts/?Interactive/?2010-03-12/?Battledecks-2010.mp3 ) How To Create A Viral Video: my.sxsw.com/?events/?event/?496 Shameless Self-Promotion Without Looking Like an Asshole: my.sxsw.com/?events/?event/?780 Ze Frank Conversation: The Creative Lifestyle: my.sxsw.com/?events/?event/?5240 Happy Cog'aoke: ok.cogaoke.com A Conversation with Michel Gondry: my.sxsw.com/?events/?event/?6639 DSLR Filmmaking: Understanding Strengths and Weaknesses: my.sxsw.com/?events/?event/?853 Slow Twitter: Users Who Take Their Time Tweeting: my.sxsw.com/?events/?event/?658 Evan Williams Keynote Interview: my.sxsw.com/?events/?event/?5231 Visual Note-Taking 101: my.sxsw.com/?events/?event/?707 Gowalla Presents: The Tiki Room with Diplo: my.sxsw.com/?events/?event/?4968 In this episode: SXSWi 2010, ideas in an environment of scarcity, Ze Frank, viral videos, slow Twitter, Battledecks, name dropping. Cast: Jeremy Fuksa , Dustin Jacobsen , Jeffrey Zeldman , Happy Cog , SeoulBrother , Chris Sacca , Mike Monteiro , Greg Storey , lonelysandwich , ze frank , ijustine , jason wishnow and OK Go Tags: sxsw , sxswi 2010 , recap , creativity , vlog , blog , gh1 , social media , karaoke , austin , texas , parties , twitter and DSLR