Last panel in at SXSW – refreshaustin proposal
Mark Phillip has entered a SXSW panel idea for this year called “The Last Panel In”. Being such a sports scion (he makes a living alerting people to sports events on tv), he got the concept from the “Last Man In” vote for the MLB All-Star game, Refresh, the web designers meetup, would be assigned an open slot and the topic would be decided on a month before SXSW. A few months before SXSW we’d have Refreshes around the country suggest one topic each, and have a poll with ten or so options on the site, completely open to the public.
So that led to Refresh’s own version of the Obama beer summit, at the Gingerman. Here’s a clip (in high definition, Alex fire up the plasma) affectionately titled “Tech Guy and the Asshole” which is a irrelevant and irreverent glimpse in to the minds of Austin’s leading refreshers.
Participants were Alex @baldman Jones, Mark @markphillip Phillip, Paul Terry @springnet Walhus (me, not shown), Pat @pat_ramsey Ramsey, Billy Laforce, and Frank @durandigitalmedia Duran
If you want to follow all the action, Pat Ramsey set up some google alerts that you can emulate and has them pointing to RSS feeds.
“last panel” or “last panel in” sxsw
http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/04391386727488120763/15330629184536369462
“refreshing cities”
http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/04391386727488120763/15450507315868294275
“sxsw interactive panel” or “sxsw interactive panels”
http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/04391386727488120763/3957337053420887160
link:panelpicker.sxsw.com
http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/04391386727488120763/3808388249912904486
link:refreshaustin.org
http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/04391386727488120763/705089919802791442
link:sxsw.com/interactive
http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/04391386727488120763/2005138491214026452
My take? I’d like to see an elimination style competition for the last panel in at SXSW, where in the last 10 weeks a panel a week gets eliminated until two panels are left standing or some variation of this a la “Survivor”, “American Idol”, or “So you think you can Dance”. In the final week, I’d like to see videos of all the participants (we could skype them) so people could have a better feel for it. In fact, it would be cool to have a video accompany the panel suggestions.
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