So You Missed SXSW? They’ve Gotcha Covered.

March 24, 2008

Filed under: SXSW, Festival Reports, Celebrities and Controversy, Cinematical Indie

If you weren’t in Austin for South by Southwest — or even if you were, and your schedule, like mine, was so incredibly packed with films and parties, that you missed out on catching some of the many panels there, you’re in luck. For your listening convenience, the SXSW website has podcasts of the panels up. There were panels on just about every topic imaginable at the fest, from “Animation and Digital Effects on a Budget,” to “The Porn Police: Know the Rules” (that one featured the never-shy-about-baring-his-all Joe Swanberg), to journalist Sarah Lacy’s “controversial” interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s, which just about descended into all-out chaos.

I’ve heard the entire interview, watched parts of it on YouTube, and read heaps of blog comments ripping Lacy to shreds, and I gotta say, I don’t see what people were so riled up about in that room, or why the audience turned on her so harshly there toward the end. Yes, it was a conversational-style interview, not a hard-hitting smackdown.

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