[th0ma5]

The tweets I am reading suggest most everything is regurgitating things we've all read in our aggregators? I heard about the Digg redesign, and that a couple of the interviewers suck, and some other self-help-sounding axioms, but that's all I've seen come out of there. Anyone know of anything else really big?

[njharman]

This is the biggest thing I've noticed. For example, the HTML 5 sessions were all stuff I've read about. The thing to know is SXSW isn't for the we're all hardcore HTML5 experts lets get into the grittiest depths of the subject. It's more hey all you folks who don't have a clue, this is why HTML5 is hot.

The key to SXSWi is to go to panels you know nothing about, and/or you're not sure are that applicable to your "world".

Both this year and last year the best panels were the ones I ended up in cause I got lost and went to wrong ballroom or I thought were gonna suck.