I’m writing this on the plane over to Texas today (and now posting it from the hotel) – we’ve just passed Greenland and we’re about over the US mainland now. I’ve organised a group of digital media types from Birmingham to go to South By South-West (SXSW) interactive (SXSWi) with the support of Digital Central. All the info on who’s going is on a site I’ve set up just for the few days we are there.
We though it would be nice to be doing something a bit interesting with the trip, so the plan is that we’re all going to be batch covering the conference on our blogs and the social networking sites that we use.
We’ve each set up a ‘life stream’ using Profilactic that takes all of this stuff and sends it to the shared website that we’ve set up.
The result should be that anything that we publish while we are there will be online for all to see, and you can track our progress from today until we return on Wednesday.
We’re also asking you to suggest stuff that you might want us to go to. Have a look at our Ask us to do stuff page.
My digital backpack
So, I’m trying out a few things so I can be grabbing content and publishing while I’m out there – others are doing similar. Here’s my ‘digital backpack’:
Kit
Laptop
A pocket camera for stills and video
An SLR camera for evening stuff
Audio recorder – Zoom H2 for recording chats with people
iPhone for photos and some text/email
Buying a cheap mobile for SMS and voice calls while I’m out there
Websites and services
This blog
I don’t know how many considered articles I’ll be able to write, but you should probably see some activity here
Follow our progress at SXSW Interactive on sxswm.com
I’m writing this on the plane over to Texas today (and now posting it from the hotel) – we’ve just passed Greenland and we’re about over the US mainland now. I’ve organised a group of digital media types from Birmingham to go to South By South-West (SXSW) interactive (SXSWi) with the support of Digital Central. All the info on who’s going is on a site I’ve set up just for the few days we are there.
We though it would be nice to be doing something a bit interesting with the trip, so the plan is that we’re all going to be batch covering the conference on our blogs and the social networking sites that we use.
We’ve each set up a ‘life stream’ using Profilactic that takes all of this stuff and sends it to the shared website that we’ve set up.
The result should be that anything that we publish while we are there will be online for all to see, and you can track our progress from today until we return on Wednesday.
We’re also asking you to suggest stuff that you might want us to go to. Have a look at our Ask us to do stuff page.
My digital backpack
So, I’m trying out a few things so I can be grabbing content and publishing while I’m out there – others are doing similar. Here’s my ‘digital backpack’:
Kit
Websites and services
Anyway – I thought that might be useful – perhaps a few sites you haven’t heard of or aren’t using that might be useful for you.
Catch the whole thing as it unfolds on SXSWM.com. Really looking forward to an interesting time in Texas!