Eric Rice is one of those people that’s just everywhere – SXSW say Rice host another of the ever popular Frey Cafes, as well as chairing a panel on the evolving future of podcasting, and making your blog into your business. There’s some new features in Audioblog to talk about, and Eric’s just accquired his own record label (Multiverse Records)… in Second Life, the virtual world. An experiment, prototyping a new business model for music sales. See, he’s everywhere… and it’s his birthday.

Tags: SXSW06, SXSWi, Eric Rice, Second Life.

Music IP is a lovely piece of technology that analyses your music collection accoustically, and can then recommend new music that sounds the same as your favourites, which launched at SXSW. Another part of the equation is the MusicBrainz enginge that labels the tracks from their open source database. I caught up with both MusicIP and MusicBrainz to talk about this hidden treasure in WinAmp.

Tags: SXSW06, SXSWi, Music IP, MusicBrainz.

One of the great things about the web is when you’re at a large event like SXSW, or ETech, is that everyone is using tags on their blog posts and pictures to help you find them. BUt where can tagging go now? An interesting round table style discussion arose at SXSW, and it brings up some good points.

Tags: SXSW06, SXSWi.

Whyville is an amazing social network site. Behind it is Dr Jim Bower, and he explains to me why an educational site for children can keep it’s viewers there longer than amazon, encourage the children to understand the world and relationships, and much more. It’s everything that Second Life hopes to be, and it’s been around for over seven years. Even in this short space of time, Bower neatly describes the idea of an ‘attention economoy’ far better than any other confernece this year.

Tags: SXSW06, SXSWi, Whyville.

One of the most exciting panels for me at SXSW Interactive was that on Serious Games for Learning. Brody Brazell was the moderator for the panel, and he has some amazing views on where technology is going, especially focused on nano/bio technology. Brazell believes that we are saying next technologies will be configured this way and focused on human development, living labs, commercialization and innovation.

Tags: SXSW06, SXSWi.

Fans of UK TV’s Spaced will realise just how weird the idea of running some Robot Wars / Battlebots in an undisclosed car park at BarCampAustin, which ran alongside SXSW Interactive. Steel Reign is one of the leading US robots that came out for the demonstration – and I spoke to the father and son team behind the robot. What drives people to build, fight and potentially destroy a robot worth tens of thousands of dollars?

Tags: SXSW06, SXSWi, battlebots.

A lot of companies are working on ways to leverage the mobile phone to be the ltimate personal computer, for both communication, and media consumption. Rob Greenlee is behind Melodeo’s podcast client and server for mobile phones. Taking a full blown podcast, converting it to a mobile friendly format, and then streaming it down to the phone is, for many, the bleeding edge of podcast mobility. How does it all work, what bandwidth does it need, and does it all hold up in the real world?

Tags: SXSW06, SXSWi.

The first panel I walked into at SXSW was the first Battledecks – where five hand picked contestants had to make a compelling and keynote worthy technology presentation, without having seen their PowerPoint. Think improvisational buzzword comedy taken to the power of 2.0. After the competition, I spoke to both the organiser and the winner. Is this the new sport of conferences?

Tags: SXSW06, SXSWi.

The press office for SXSW is overrun with work, so instead of looking to get some time from them to find out more about the 20th Annversary SXSW, I approached one of the most influential ‘satellite blogs’ about SXSW, namely SXSW Baby. Kathryn Yu is one of the team of people behind the site, and she’s full of advice on how exactly I (and other first timers) should treat my first experience of Austin.
Links

• SXSW Baby
• Kathryn Yu’s Blog
• SXSW Interactive
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Welcome to the first podcast in the March 2006 series. In this show, Nicole and I chat about what we’ve got planned for the upcoming shows. Nicole (www.crueltobekind.org) will be joining me at BarCampLA and O’Reilly’s Etech to help with the coverage. It’s her first Etech (and my third) so what differences in our expectations are there? What are we looking to do with the podcasts? And what, exactly, is the schedule?

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Did you believe us when we said “we go so you don’t have to?” Well hold onto your MP3 player, because we’re about to prove it to you, with coverage from….

BarCampLA
March 4-5, Los Angeles, California.

O’Reilly Emerging Technology
March 6-9, San Diego, California.

SXSW Interactive.
March 10-14, Austin, Texas.

Mix06
20th Mar to 22 Mar, Las Vegas

If you’re not yet subscribed, the feed for your podcatching client is techconf.thepodcastnetwork.com/feed. Want to be part of the show from any of these conferences? Then give Ewan a mail… ewanspence@gmail.com.

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