Some thoughts about SXSW Interactive. Videobloggers were out in force this year. I haven’t seen that many of my vlogging peers in one place at one time since Vloggercon. And the weird thing is that everyone –or at least many people are working on or considering or have signed some sort of monetary or commercial deal for their vlogs. I signed my deal with Podtech a couple of months now. And I’m fairly happy with the arrangement so far. There have been some minor glitches here and there. But really nothing major. But then again I’m a pretty laid back guy who will let a lot of shit slide most of the time–unless I think someone is actively trying to screw me–then I become extremely uptight. Obviously I don’t believe for a second that Podtech is trying to screw anyone. And the more I get to know them the more I really like them. Some of them I really dig a lot.
One big observation I made was that there didn’t seem to be a lot of crossover between the Interactive and the Film parts of the conference. I know that technically they are separate events going on at the same time requiring separate badges and fees, but with video being such a big thing now (and not going away) does it really make sense to keep them separate–or at least not allow any crossover between the events unless you have the right badge? Seems like they could have at least one or two panels that would be open to both. Maybe there were but I didn’t notice.
Anyway I have more thoughts about this but it’ll have to wait. Editing calls.
