South by Southwest 2009

My second adventure in Austin, TX for South by Southwest Interactive. The good folks at Ames Scullin O’Haire were kind enough to send me again. Ginger Donel accompanied me this year, and it really was an inspirational conference. I felt like last year’s theme, if a SXSW can be said to have an overall “theme,” was defining web 2.0 as the social revolution of the internet. This year, the overwhelming amount of discussion revolved around the increasing number of “feeds” in our lives — from tv and radio to email and twitter — and ways to aggregate just those “channels” we like together and filter out all the rest of the noise. There’s a great visual in there somewhere.

When we returned back home, I completely unplugged myself for two days. No emailing. No blogging. Absolutely no twittering.

On the third day, I rose again and plugged back in. Felt good. Ginger and I spent a little time gathering our photos, recorded a little script, and I edited our little movie throughout the weekend. Check it.


Ginger + Cary + SXSW09 from Cary Songy on Vimeo.