We went to the fantastic Dorkbot party and met up with the organisers. Something to bring to the UK?
Pete loved the robots. I loved the interactive visual feedback loop Eric Archer had made. It was good:
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We’re in a ‘want us to do stuff?’ mood so we head over to Bikehugger at the request of someone who left a message at sxswm and got an interview with a Bikehugger blogger.
In a brief respite from the geekery, a few of us from SXSWM got together for a chat to summarise our first day.
SXSW is all about the conversations you have - Alex and others who drop in and out during our chat provide a great first one!

Coworking etc. with Alex Hillman:
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I’m writing this on the plane over to Texas today (and now posting it from the hotel) - we’ve just passed Greenland and we’re about over the US mainland now. I’ve organised a group of digital media types from Birmingham to go to South By South-West (SXSW) interactive (SXSWi) with the support of Digital Central. [...]