Anyone going?
SXSWi is a mainstream show that has become sort of an incubator for social networking and community trends. The people behind Blogger, Flickr, Orkut, BitTorrent, consumating, and more have been going for years. (long before "blog" was a word.) I find it to be a massive jolt to my creativity.
AmeliaG, Seska, and I are doing a panel on Saturday at the Interactive portion of the conference.
I did a short video about the show:
http://www.veoh.com/videos/e47587PMTANQxr