Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Ben Brown, Internet Rockstar, on SXSW

[Ben Brown meets Malcolm Gladwell at Break Bread with Brad, SXSW 2005]

Ben Brown ruminates about South by Southwest’s past in The Official Annotated Ben Brown SXSW Timeline, or Boy, Have I Had A Lot of Fun!.

I love SXSW.  It is one of my favorite times of year because it means that everyone I know and love will be in Austin all at the same time for almost two solid weeks of partying.  Yes, partying.  Sure, you can go and hand out business cards or launch your business or debut your awesome video podcast, but when I think of SXSW, I think of a constant orgy of beer, whiskey, tacos and barbeque the likes of which could not exist anywhere outside of the heart of Texas.

In honor of the events coming up in just a few scant weeks, I have created an annotated timeline of my involvement in the event.  I think that once you read this, you will agree that without Ben Brown, there would be no SXSW.