My so called geek life
As a card carrying feminist (except they don’t give us cards which is very unfortunate!) I am embarrassed to admit that I’m not half the geek I would like to be. I can’t code much more than an html link and I don’t really understand what the Semantic Web is although I like the sound of it very much. I got a bit obsessed with solid-state drives over the weekend but am still not really sure what is so good about them to justify the $1,300 price difference between the MacBook Air with a regular hard drive and the one with a smaller but no doubt fabulous solid-state drive.
Despite these shortcomings I have been getting very excited about the line-up for the Interactive Festival at SXSW this year although I will be too busy attending the Film Festival to actually go to any interactive panels. I hope that they podcast lots of them because I finally got around to listening to the podcasts from 2007 recently and found them fascinating – and very amusing to see how of-the-moment so much of this stuff is, there’s lots of excited talk about what the super-secret iPhone oooooooh will be like for example. I think it’s a shame that there isn’t more film/interactive crossover in the panels because there are so many business and marketing panels in the interactive fest that are increasingly relevant to filmmakers as they pursue new distribution strategies. I found out about so many amazing websites, projects and ideas from the 2007 Interactive podcasts and that was a mere smidgeon of what was covered at the event itself.
Speaking of distribution, I’ll be moderating a panel for IFP Industry Connect tomorrow to talk about alternative distribution options with Ryan Werner from IFC Films, Slava Rubin from IndieGoGo and Jordan Mattos and Bob Alexander from IndiePix. Will be interesting to hear what they’re all up to and where they see things heading in 2008.