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Well, that's day one of the South by Southwest interactive festival under my belt and what a day it was. I sat in on some great sessions, met one of my digital heroes , interviewed an absolute new media legend (video to follow) and partied with a load of robots in a field at the Make Magazine party.

In fact I did so much stuff that I can't even begin to blog it all, but two sessions in particular struck a chord with the thing's I've been working on recently in broadcast new media.

A casual visitor to Chez Lockey tonight would be forgiven for thinking that I was in the middle of clearing up after a major break-in.

In fact I'm in the midst of an epic packing session in preparation for Friday morning when I'm due to hop in a taxi at sparrow's fart a.m. bound for BHX where a big shiny plane is scheduled to whisk me off to sunny Austin, Texas.

No, I'm not about to give up my new-found love of blogging to join the rodeo, I am in fact off to the South by Southwest interactive festival (or SXSWi for those of you with a vowel aversion), the biggest, geekiest tech-fest on the planet.

And in the true spirit of interactivity, you get to have a say in what I see and do at the conference as well as following the action via an ambitious experiment in collective reporting.