{"id":590,"date":"2009-03-18T09:28:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T22:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Liako.Biz\/?p=590"},"modified":"2009-03-18T09:28:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T22:28:57","slug":"downloadsquadcom-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/downloadsquadcom-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Downloadsquad.com interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bulk of the panels at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/\">SXSW<\/a> have been on the whole ordinary. Rather than pulling interesting people around a topic to project new ideas about the future &#8211; the panels seemed to have a different formula. One that is &#8220;how can I promote my company\/personal brand the best, under the guise of an interesting topic filled with buzz words that will suck the audience in&#8221;. There are outliers of course, but that&#8217;s how I feel most of them have been.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s wrong for me to be judgmental of the entire conference, but I have to contrast that with the bloggers room. I&#8217;m a new face to the industry, especially the US world where I know few people. But sitting down working on my things (outside of the bubble that is SXSW), I randomly meet people who introduce me to other people. Interesting conversations, interesting people, and you never know who you will bump into.<\/p>\n<p>Like Grant Robertson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadsquad.com\/2009\/03\/16\/sxsw-2009-catching-up-with-dataportabiity\/\">who interviewed me<\/a> for one of the most trafficked websites around! (<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/blogs\/www.downloadsquad.com?reactions\">number 23 blog in the world<\/a>.) Check out what I say, explaining what the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dataportability.org\/\">DataPortability Project<\/a> is, and what we&#8217;ve been doing since last years SXSW.  I wish I said more informative stuff (ie, this is not self-promotion, if I think I did lame!) &#8211; but just goes to show where the real value out of a conference like this is: the centralisation of so many people that think alike, interested in each other, thinking about the future.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"383\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3670628&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=02b808&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3670628&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=02b808&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"500\" height=\"383\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My interview with a video blogger on what the DPP is doing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[409,129,158,268,349],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dataportability","tag-dataportability","tag-dpp","tag-future","tag-people","tag-sxsw","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}