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First set of SXSWi ‘10 panels announced
The first batch of panels for South by Southwest 2010 have been posted this morning on the official site.
SXSW says that more than 2,300 panel ideas were submitted via its Panel Picker and that a second round of panels will be announced on Nov. 9. In all, more than 300 panels will be part of the fest March 12-16.
Among the panels that caught my eye in this set of about 110 were, “2009 Iran Election: Women’s Revolution? Twitter Revolution?,” “From Trolls to Stars: The Commenter Ecosystem,” “Media Armageddon: What Happens When the New York Times Dies,” and “What Guys are Doing to Get More Girls in Tech!”
Also sprinkled in the list are panels whose topics I feel like I’ve seen 3 or 4 times before, or panels that are mostly about a Web celebrity who has already spoken at SXSWi, which is unfortunate.
For newcomers to the fest, this is a tantalizing early list, but for those who’ve attended before, a lot of the panels listed so far either seem too general (“Future of Context”) or panels that have literally been on the schedule in some form or fashion for 10 years (“Writing Web Content For A Living”).
Excited to see how the next batch of panels varies from this one.
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