« Perspective on Multimedia | Main | SXSW Images » Running around SXSW I haven't slowed down enough to organize thoughts and post about SXSW Interactive; yesterday was full and illuminating, and I'm still trying to sort it all out. A diverse group of netheads met in the morning for breakfast with Gerfried Stocker of Ars Electronica. Much of the conversation was about sustainable cities and the impact of emerging technologies on specific regions. Emily Gertz and I brought up leapfrogging, a concept we stress at worldchanging.com – developing nations are relatively unconstrained by legacy infrastructures that, in developed nations, may slow implementation of new tech. David Deans often cites the example of Korea, which has made been more effective than the U.S. in deployment of broadband services because there was no existing telephone/cable duopoly to contend with. We also talked about the principle of the ecological footprint, and how the typical consumption-based U.S. standard of living would consume many planets' worth of resources if it was a universal standard - so we have to think how to become more sustainable in the U.S., and build toward high global standards that are not driven by consumption. We're needing a paradigm shift, and if we don't find ways to drive it now, necessity will crash down on us like a ton of bricks. Global warming driven in part by fossil-fuel consumption is already looking like significant disruption, especially for the Inuit, for instance, whose environment is changing radically as the ice melts. At the conference I was part of a couple of Studio SX interviews. I interviewed Dan Gillmor about his blog history and the concept of citizen journalism that he discusses in his book We the Media. Dan's been traveling to several conferences partly as an evangelist and partly as a participant of the apparent revolution in the way we form, share, and interpret reflective information with so many more writers and observers in the mix. I also had a taped conversation with Jonas Luster, where we talked about projects like Blogging with Borders, Global Voices, and Blogger Corps and their potential impact on the global extension of the blogosphere. jon posted this at 8:44 AM |
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We saw you guys leaving Curra's Sunday morning. We were at the far west end of the restaurant with a group of friends from out of town. I was boxed in, so I didn't get a chance to say hi.
I was the only Austinite to make it to the Metroblogging meetup. I put up a brief post about it on my site.
Posted by: ttrentham | March 16, 2005 9:58 AM