"Austin during SXSW is a bubble. With everyone staring at their phones, it resembles a roving and only notionally offline social network, in which something cooler and more interesting is always happening elsewhere." -- Jacob Silverman, The Baffler #23
Hello. I'm Ryan Bigge, a Toronto-based content strategist and cultural journalist. I also dabble in creative technology. And just like Roman on Party Down, I have a prestigious blog.
Monday, December 30, 2013
SXSW is a notionally offline social network
I said something like this when trying to describe SXSW Interactive 2014, and then gave up and resorted to FOMO. This is much better: