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Looking Back at SXSWI 2006

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So, anyway, a not-so-quick wrap-up on SXSW. I’ve waited a week to write this, hoping I’d develop a more nuanced view on what in general I felt was a fairly disappointing conference, but I haven’t, so here goes.

First, the good: As with previous years, I met a lot of smart, talented and frighteningly intelligent people, and got the chance to catch up with folks I only see when in Austin. There were a number of good panels as well, with the Ambient Findability, Ubiquitous Computing, Folksonomies and (dangerously overcrowded) Online in Offline Spaces panels sticking out. This year also brought the opportunity