A grab bag today, literally, as myself and a few friends dive into the delights of one of the conference big bags; alongside the illuminating documentary One Minute to Nine, and music from Sean Hayes
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Today’s Guests
CC Chapmna, Christian Payne, Phil Campbell, et al
One Minute to Nine (at the SXSW Movie Guide).
Sean Hayes (Sean on MySpace)

Tags: SXSW, SXSW 2008,SXSW Film, SXSW Music, SXSW Interactive, One Minute To Nine, Sean Hayes.

A truly magical mix of technology and art today, from the undead stalking prom night, to getting web pages on a mobile phone, through to the Harry Potter fandom experience. It’s all heere, just alohamora on your MP3 player!

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Today’s Guests
Dance of the Dead (at SXSW Film Index)
James Pearce (CTO, dotmobi)
We Are Wizards (at SXSW Film index)
Harry and the Potters (Harry and the Potters on MySpace)

Shuttle (Shuttle on the SXSW Film Directory)
Gavin Starks (www.amee.cc)
Trash Fashion (Trash Fashion on MySpace)

Tags: SXSW, SXSW 2008,SXSW Film, SXSW Music, SXSW Interactive, Dance of the Dead, dotmobi, We Are Wizards,

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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.

Want to know more about Twitter? Then I’ll do my best to grab the people behind Twitter at SXSW Interactive when they arrive!

Tags: Ewan Spence, Twitter.

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?

Back in 2004, I was invited over to speak at Etech on OPL (the BASIC like programming langauge for Symbian OS back in the v6.0 and 6.1 days). My first time in America, my first big conference experience, and the chance to meet a whole new group of friends. At the time I was still heading up the Tech Support Team in London for Pinnock Organiser Service, a far cry from where I am now.

Anyway, while I was at that first Etech, I met up with Mick Stanic, who was over there to see what new stuff tehre was for his work in the Australlian Advertising Industry. As thigns progressed in 2004, podcasting started to get more attention, and when Mick joined up with Cameron Reilly, first to do G’day World, and then The Podcast Network, I was invited to help set up the network with them. The rest you all know.

So I have a soft spot for Etech - partly because of the subjects it brings up, but mostly because it puts in one room a whole bundle of smart people with ideas, investors, and managers. A heady mix indeed. This year will be no different, and the usual mix of Tech Conference interviews and news will be a little oasis of calm at the end of the journey. I’m not woried in the slightest about finding stories and news in South California. And when it’s all over, I’ll relax on teh Friday before starting the flight home to Edinburgh at 5pm.

You can read about my first Etech over on my personal blog, starting here and working forwards in time.

As well as a number of pre-confernece interviews that we are running just now, while the conference is running I’ll be reporting from the floor with short daily interviews and features, talking to a number of people at the Conference, and catching up with some of the news that I am sure is going to come out during the 4 days in Brussels!

Between the 29th of September and the 3rd of October, The Podcast Network web site will be undergoing some major server work that will increase (fingers crossed) both the speed and the reliability of the service you have come to love and cherish ;)

Access to the web site and the functionality of the RSS feed will at best experience a small blip of down time… and at worst…well..it could vanish into the bermuda triangle that is tech land for upto four days. I have also had to switch of the ability to post comments on all the sites till we are fully operational as well.

Stick with us through this little hick-up and I promise we will return to normal transmission as quick as possible.

Thanks guys and gals…

Mick Stanic
Co-Founder of The Podcast Network

Many of us here at The Podcast Network attend a number of conferences through the course of the year, and this channel is where we will aggregate the shows that don’t really have a home anywhere else. We may even cross post all of our conference material to this channel as well so that if you are interested in conference audio you have one place to go…though we highly recommend that you subscribe to and visit other TPN shows as well :)

So even though it won’t have regular posts every week, subscribe and stay tuned because we have some great stuff lined up like a re-post of the G’day World DEMO@15 show and Ewan at O’Reilly’s Emerging Technologies Conference (ETech).