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I may be up in New York at the moment, but there’s a few more things to clear up from SXSW. Such as the interview with moderator Christian Castle from the Google/YouTube/Arts discussion late last week I mentioned. As always, any stories, leads, or if you want to be in the show, drop me an email at ewanspence@gmail.com, or call me on 917 349 4539. Want to follow what’s going on with me? Twitter: EwanSpence.

Today’s Guest From SXSW:
Discussion from Christian Castle on YouTube, Google, and the mainstream media.
Music from Honeycut.

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What a fun day yesterday was. Panels that ranged across music, mobiles, the web, copyright law, Web 2.0 and consumers taking matters into their own hands, some cracking live bands, and a great midnight movie to finish it of. That’s what makes SXSW so special. As always, any stories, leads, or if you want to be in the show, drop me an email at ewanspence@gmail.com, or call me on 917 349 4539. Want to follow what’s going on with me? Twitter: EwanSpence.

Today’s Guest From SXSW:
Get ready for the internet based Portable Film Fest.
Mike Tucker, director of The Prisoner (or How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair).
Chris Stapp and Matt Heath, the team behind The Devil Dared Me To.
We play out with Deja Voodoo, Can’t Do What I Wanna Do.

Tags: SXSW, SXSW 2007,SXSW Movie, SXSW Music, Ewan Spence, The Prisoner, Portable Film Festival, Deja Voodoo, The Devil Dared Me To.

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There’s a bundle of stories and thoughts here at SXSW Music, and we’ll get to that in the next few shows. For now, there’s a fascinating interview with Ian Schaffer from Deep Focus (the company behind the Court TV ad/blog campaign to name one), a talk with Corey Dennis from Ioda along with the headline band from their opening day gig), and Casey Muller from Jamglue talking about music communities.

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Today’s Guest From SXSW:
Casey Muller from Jamglue.
Corey Dennis from Ioda Promonet.
Ian Schaffer from Deep Focus.
The Black Angels, performing Bloodhounds on my Trail.

Tags: SXSW, SXSW 2007,SXSW Movie, SXSW Music, Ewan Spence, Jamglue, Ioda, Deep Focus, Court TV, Promonet.

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Mostly movies today, but with the musical biopic of Larry Pierce, you’ve got some melodies to join in with at the very end of the show. before that though, 40,000 zombie sheep attack the farm in the New Zealand comedy horror agricultre spectacle that will rival Shaun of the Dead this year, and the chaos of getting every music registrant a wristband.

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Today’s Guest From SXSW:
Hugh Forrest, SXSW Coordinator talking about registering all the music fans and more.
Jonathan King, writer and director of Black Sheep.
Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett, directors of Dirty Country.
Larry Pierce sings “I Think About You Every Time…”

Tags: SXSW, SXSW 2007,SXSW Movie, SXSW Music, Ewan Spence, Black Sheep, Dirty Country.

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A burst of short thoughts from the floor of the trade show to start today’s show, from opening up systems (OpenID) at AOL, to new storytelling methods and ideas, to the impressive One Laptop Per Child program. And for SXSW Movie, when you have people who love movies as much as Chris Kattan and Glasgow Phillips (from Undead or Alive) you can’t help but chat about the resurgence of the Zombie, The Transformers Movie, Pirates of the Caribbean and debate the merits of The Swarm.

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Today’s Guest From SXSW:
Owen Walsh from AOL on AOL’s OpenID Plans
New forms of storytelling from The Couriers of Ruin (www.thespyronsconcept.com)
I get my hands on an OLPC Computer.
The aforementioned Glasgow and Kris from Undead or Alive.

Tags: SXSW, SXSW 2007,SXSW Movie, SXSW Interactive, Ewan Spence, openID, AOL, Undead Or Alive, OLPC.

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Last night’s Web Awards brought pretty much every Interactive badge holder to the Hilton Hotel Ballroom for the annual rewarding of the newest and latest sites in the internet. Stay tuned to the end of the show for some of the more notable winner’s names, but before then I caht to two nominees and the man behind the awards. Of course SXSW isn’t just that, so Twisted (a balloonamentary) tell me more about the delights of balloon modelling and documentary filmmaking.

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Today’s Guest From SXSW:
Twisted - A Balloon Twisting Documentary.
Broadtexter - SMS Groups for Music Bands and Fans.
Evan Williams, Twitter - If you’re not on Twitter, you’re !2.0.
Shawn O’Keefe - The Tenth Web Awards

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SXSW continues, today was the first fully programmed day of panels on the Interactive and Film festivals, with the midnight movies and a number of films coming out as well. Getting round everything is not possible, so everyone is making priority decisions. That’s the same process i the podcast - I’m not going to get 15,000 people through the podcast - but I am aiming for a good representative feel to the festival.

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Today’s Guest From SXSW:
Jakob Heuser, Gaia.
Gary Leland, Podcast Pickle.
Rev Billy, What Would Jesus Buy?
Jerry Paffendorf, The Electric Sheep Company.

Tags: SXSW, SXSW 2007,SXSW Movie, SXSW Interactive, Ewan Spence, Gaia, Podcast Pickle, Second Life, Electric Sheep Company.

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SXSW gets under way, and there are people everywere. More notes later, as I’ve got to head out for the ’social drinks’ that provide the most results, but for now, here’s toays mix of fun from Austin.

Today’s Guest From SXSW:
Scott Beale, Laughing Squid.
Harris Fishman, (Cat Dancers on MySpace).
Harry Knowles, Ain’t It Cool.

Tags: Harry Knowles, SXSW, SXSW 2007,SXSW Movie, SXSW Interactive, Ewan Spence.

I’ve already received a number of screener discs (and they’ve naturally been converted for the PSP) and teh quality of the films is a sight to behold. Not that I’m against the Michael Bay big budget extravaganza (cf Transformers, The Movie, this summer) but to be challenged, to be made to think, to really work through something in my head thanks to a movie is special. With the SXSW Movie lineup, I’m going to be in a popcorn overloaded haze of exactly that.

The only probloem is that some of the film screenigns (most have two screenings) clash with some of the sessions at SXSW Interactive - how I’m going to get around that I don’t know.Maybe I’ll just have to have some of the other bloggers who’ll be at SXSW cover one thing for me and I’ll do the other?