Talk:South by Southwest

message: Why isn't there any information about the interactive side of SxSW? --Ampersand2006 ( talk · user page design  ) 11:52, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interactive part of SxSW? 

message: Is it fair to say this event is fairly commercialized?  I've heard that the cost to truly sample and experience the event is astronomical. -Rolypolyman 12:54, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cost of SXSW 

message: 'seems to me that the festival always coincides with Spring break (at least, locally (UT)), but i can't prove it, much less source it: no such mention at sxsw.com. Anyone? --Jerome Potts (talk) 06:50, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timing 

message: *Guide to Music and South by Southwest
*South by Southwest Festival 2007
--Jerome Potts (talk) 07:57, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Found these two at [[IMDB]] 

message: Thanks to the anonymous who added the SuperDeluxe.com SXSW 2008 Highlight Video in the external links section: it is sooo lame that it makes you wonder whether the festival is interesting at all. Oh, and: only one reference/source for the whole article? Duuude. How incomplete, how amateur, how lame.
--Jerome Potts (talk) 20:09, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  external links and all 

message: I read: According to the Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau, SXSW is the second highest money-making public event for the Austin and Travis County economy, trailing only the annual Republic Of Texas Biker Rally., with a ref to something written at UT's newspaper The Daily Texan's website, a dead link by now, so i can't tell whether it was an article or a comment posted by a reader, or what.
I wonder about the validity of that claim; perhaps we should get a ref from the Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau itself, no? (austintexas.org)
--Jerome Potts (talk) 06:28, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately the newspaper article cannot be found, but after checking some more recent sources it appears that SXSW is actually be larger than the ROT Biker Rally. The article has now been updated to include these sources. EagleAg04 (talk) 06:00, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  ORLY? 

message: SXSW makes no sense.  "South by Soutwest" is not a point on the 32-point compass.  "Southwest by South" is.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.253.65.38 (talk) 16:07, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: Anyone wanna add a "criticism" section, with references, talking about how SXSW used to actually be about undiscovered local bands but is now just another big corporate rockapalooza?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.94.125.134 (talk) 22:52, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism 

message: SXSW kind of silently discontinued the torrents in 2008 as I recall (maybe 2007?) and did not offer one in 2009 either - the torrents for those years were user-assembled and hosted, so it might be necessary to rephrase this part to indicate that the event can be a good source for a huge sampler of new music with a little leg work. Hewgill's site is a good place to link to, as long as he continues to link to the user-generated torrents going forward (he created the one for 08, as I recall). Andrewhime (talk) 06:15, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Torrents 

message: "SXSW Interactive's focus on emerging technology has earned the festival a reputation as a breeding ground for new ideas and creative technologies. Twitter launched at SXSW Interactive in 2007."
If a product launched there, that's something different to it being bred there, so to me Twitter is a bad example of a new idea or creative technology that was bred there. Lopifalko (talk) 17:35, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Twitter a bad example of something bred there 

message: Does anyone know how many people are employed by the Festival?
Dmhyde1 (talk) 23:18, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  South by Southwest employment 

message: sxsw.com makes it sound more like a trade show:
:features five days of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology, scores of exciting networking events hosted by industry leaders, the incredible new SXSW Trade Show and an unbeatable lineup of special programs showcasing the best new digital works, video games and innovative ideas the international community has to offer.
What do you think?  The intro description of the article does not match at all, with what the web site says.  Shouldn't they be similar? Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 22:49, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it a trade show or a festival? 

message: Interesting how SXSW supposedly started at a convention center in a year that the convention center didn't even exist yet. Whoever wrote this article is obviously just making stuff up...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.132.13.2 (talk) 02:36, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You mean the Austin Convention Center? It opened in 1992, and it first hosted SXSW in 1993. Korny O'Near (talk) 19:27, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs a lot of fact checking. 

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thread_title:  External links modified (January 2018) 

message: This is a suggested edit from the digital marketing team at SXSW. Our current category is showing up on Google as "Film Festival" but this is only one element of SXSW. Can the default/priority category be updated to "Category:Conference & festivals" to better encapsulate the breadth of SXSW?
https://www.sxsw.com/about/
Kevanirsch10 (talk) 16:42, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accurate Page Category 

message: There is no Conference and festivals category already existing on Wikipedia. Instead, I added the two as individual categories (e.g., Conferences and Festivals). I also added the Conferences category to SXSW's Wikimedia Commons page, which already contained the Festivals category. Regards,  18:07, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Reply 02-APR-2018

message: The criticism of SXSW specifically due to its sponsorship by the US Army during the current Palestinian war might be worth adding to the Criticism section. Enough bands have now dropped out that it's being covered by national news outlets (The Guardian, NME etc), and is likely to have an impact on the festival, at least for this year. Sktenn (talk) 08:49, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  2024 Boycott in support of Palestine 

message: what is parallel film? Ans (talk) 09:25, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  what is parallel film?