DIY Distro and Marketing with Scott Kirsner

There is an interesting short interview with Scott Kirsner (@ScottKirsner) on Matt Dentler's blog (@MattDentler) about Scott's new book Fans, Friends & Followers: Building an Audience and a Creative Career in the Digital Age. I plan on checking out his book as soon as I can get my hands on it.

Scott also moderated two panels I attended: The Future of DVDs and Digital Distribution & Marketing Meets New Media: Building Your Audience Online. The distro panel was one of the two best panels I attended this year (the other being comedy for web/tv, for which I am still looking for the podcast). The panelests got into specific numbers as far as money earned online etc. and I think Gary Hustwit had some great things to say about getting his previous film Helvetica out into the world.

During the Q&A session an audience member made an interesting comment regarding piracy and donations. The idea being that if you watched a pirate copy of Super Size Me, for example, then you could go to Morgan Spurlock's site and make a "donation" to compensate him for the work. Some people took it as a joke, but I think it is an interesting idea.
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SXSW Podcasts

Here are links to the official SXSW podcast page and the SmartBlog on SocialMedia's suggestions for marketing related podcasts.

I won't have time to listen to all of them and post recaps, so if anyone is inclined, find a few you like and comment. (Do I really need to say that? I am n00b, hear me roar.)

And yes, I do suffer from FOMO which is part of the reason I started this blog.

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Again with the regrouping...

Well, I made it out of SXSW 2009 alive and now I will be in Dallas for a few weeks. I've spent most of the day catching up with news, email, etc. and will have a legit post in the next day or so.

Overall SX was great this year. In the coming days I will be throwing up notes of the panels I attended as well as those I can gleam from others. I spent a good deal of time attending interactive panels this year, and I must say I found the film/interactive crossover panels to be quite informative. I hope they continue that trend.
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The 1st

I'm starting to think that setting up this blog right before SXSW wasn't the best idea since I have not had any time to write anything. But it all has to happen sometime.

I woke up late but still made it down to the ACC for the No to Low Budget panel. Eventhough I found out it will be podcast once I arrived, I'm still glad I made it.

For the rest of the week it is probably a better idea to follow me on Twitter @johnHlang. I changed it from @skankinjohnlang so it would match my email address. Not like anyone is following this blog yet anyway. But for those of you I have yet to meet, you can follow me on Twitter until after the fest. I will also have a better introduction to the blog for you then.

Nice to meet you in advance.
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