Saturday, March 15, 2008

SXSW Podcast: The Matador, The Interactive Bag, and The Black Hollies

More of the big bags, as we look deep into the Interactive bag; the challenges and attitudes about the film The Matador, and music from not influenced by the UK Sixties Mop Tops at all, The Black Hollies

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Today’s Guests
The Matador (at the SXSW Film Guide)
CC Chapman, Christian Payne, Phil Campbell, et al open the Interactive Big Bag with me
The Black Hollies (on MySpace)

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Friday, March 14, 2008

SXSW Podcast: The Film Big Bag, One Minute to Nine, Sean Hayes

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)

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Thursday, March 13, 2008

SXSW Podcast: Ian Schafer, Second Skin, Ash Grunwald

Discussing the Zuckerberg keynote is one of the topics that I take of with Ian Scahfer, while the virtual world’s impact on real people is th focus of the Second Skin documentary. Finally, some live music from Australian upcoming musician Ash Grunwald.

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Today’s Guests
Ian Schafer (www.ianschafer.com)
Second Skin (at the SXSW Movie Guide)
Ash Grundwald (Ash on MySpace)

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

SXSW Podcast: Here’s Johnny, Rick Calvert, Nerdcore Rising and MC Frontalot

Challenging yourself, not fitting in, making a space in the world for you is the very very loose thread in today’s SXSW show.

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Today’s Guests
Here’s Johnny (at SXSW Movie Guide)
Rick Calvert (Blog World Expo)
Nerdcore Rising (at SXSW Movie Guide)

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

SXSW Podcast: Dance of the Dead, dotmobi, We Are Wizards, Harry and the Potters

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 here, 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)

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Monday, March 10, 2008

SXSW Podcast: Shuttle, Gavin Starks and Trash Fashion

Things are never what they seem - and thats very true for today’s show. Shuttle is an absolutely engrossing movie, but does require you to know very little about it when you see it (and that makes the interview tricky); the AMEE project is uncovering the truth of our environment, or at least getting a mass of data; and the discovery of new music - today its Trash Fashion - is always a joy.

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

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Sunday, March 9, 2008

SXSW Podcast: Brad Graham, Sex Positive and Koopa

And so into the interviews - although one part preview/one interesting story with Brad Graham from SXSW Baby sits alongside the challenging film Sex Positive, based around the beginnings of the safe sex movement in New York, and the youthful exuberance of the one of the top independent bands from the UK, Koopa!

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Today’s Guests
Brad Graham (SXSW Baby)
Daryl Wein (Sex Positive at SXSW Film Directory)
Koopa (Koopa on MySpace)

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Saturday, March 8, 2008

SXSW Podcast: Brent Grulke Previews the SXSW Music Festival

The final preview of the SXSW Podcast is with Brent Grulke. SXSW Music is the core festival, or at least the oldest, and is regarded as one of the top music festivals in the world - ask any band if they would play here and they’d bite your leg off. Brent Grulke has been involved for many many years, and now is the Musical Director of the festival. What keeps him excited and involved, which bands would want to play, and how do you choose the best of the best to play the showcases?

Today’s Guests
Brent Grulke (SXSW Music)

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Friday, March 7, 2008

SXSW Podcast: Previewing Film with Matt Dentler

Continuing our previews of the trinity that makes up SXSW, today is the turn of SXSW Film Head Honcho, Matt Dentler. Where do the films come from, what does Matt and the team get up to for the rest of the year, how cool is the Alamo, and what would Matt run in a Film Festival for people who have never seen a film? All that and more is in today’s show.

Today’s Guests
Matt Dentler (SXSW Film)

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Thursday, March 6, 2008

SXSW Podcast: Previewing Interactive with Hugh Forrest

After the well received hints and tips podcast yesterday, the first of three preview shows has me talking to Hugh Forrest, the man behind SXSW Interactive. From loaning the team a Mac many years ago, he’s overseen the youngest but fastest growing part of the SXSW experience. What has he learned, how does the team choose the panels, and will Brian Eno ever do a keynote?

Today’s Guests
Hugh Forrest (SXSW Interactive)

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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

SXSW Podcast: Top Tips From The Conference Organisers

Ladies (and Gentlemen), start your audio engines! SXSW is very very close, and that means it’s time to warm up the podcast muscle for Austin as well. Before the full daily show kicks off, I’ll be previewing the three elements (interactive, film and music) with the organisers of the conference - to start with, a whistle stop tour of things to do, with some Top Tips on surviving SXSW from those that are setting it up....

Today’s Guests
Hugh Forrest (SXSW Interactive)
Matt Dentler (SXSW Film)
Brent Grulke (SXSW Music)

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Sunday, March 18, 2007

SXSW Podcast: The Portable Film Fest, The Prisoner and The Devil Dared Me To

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 , 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.

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Friday, March 16, 2007

SXSW Podcast: Deep Focus, Ioda and Jamglue

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.

As always, any stories, leads, or if you want to be in the show, drop me an email at , or call me on 917 349 4539. Want to follow what’s going on with me? Twitter: EwanSpence.

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.

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Thursday, March 15, 2007

SXSW Podcast: Hugh Forrest, Black Sheep and Dirty Country

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 agriculture spectacle that will rival Shaun of the Dead this year, and the chaos of getting every music registrant a wristband.

Today’s Guests 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...”

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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

SXSW Podcast: AOL, The Couriers of Ruin, OPLC, and Undead or Alive

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.

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.

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Monday, March 12, 2007

SXSW Podcast: Twisted, Broadtexter, Twitter and the Tenth Web Awards

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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Sunday, March 11, 2007

SXSW Podcast: A Stroll Around Dorkbot

Not everyone gets to every evening party, and last night’s Dorkbot Party (also with the Austin Robot Society and O’Reilly’s Make/Craft empire) took over Brush Park in a riot of sound, servos, animatrioncis and amazement. What did you miss? Listen to The Podcast Network’s tour of Dorkbot to find out.

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Saturday, March 10, 2007

SXSW Podcast: Gaia, Podcast Pickle, The Electric Sheep Co, and What Would Jesus Buy.

Another varied bag of interviews from the direct interview, forward looking ideas, and impact marketing as The Podcast Network’s Tech Conference Show at SXSW.

Today’s Guest From SXSW:
Jakob Heuser, Gaia.
Gary Leland, Podcast Pickle.
Rev Billy, What Would Jesus Buy?
Jerry Paffendorf, The Electric Sheep Company.
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Friday, March 9, 2007

SXSW Podcast: Laughing Squid, Cat Dancers, The Big Bag and Harry Knowles

Everyone at SXSW will meet different people, have different experiences, but all of them have one contstant. The Big Bag of Flyers and Giveaways. Today’s SXSW Podcast from The Podcast Network opens up the secrets of the ‘Big Bag,’ as well as grabbing Harry Knowles (Ain’t It Cool) to give some perspective on SXSW Film.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Hugh Forrest Interview & SXSW Preview

Ewan starts his SXSW coverage by going right to the top, literally, interviewing the very tall Hugh Forrest, event director for the SXSW Interactive Conference and getting a preview of the 2007 event.