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SomaFM is road tripping to South by Southwest this year. Well, at least Rusty and Merin are. Elise is going to fly in a little later. But on the way there, we're going to spread the word about SomaFM along historic Route 66 and the southern US. And tell you about it in the process.

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Friday SXSW Interactive Panels

Went to see Dan Willis from Sapient talk about “Everything You Know About Web Design Is Wrong”, where he drew parallels between the early days of motion pictures and how that evolved over 15 years to be the movies we know today; and how we should think in order to start designing now what the web will really look like in the future.

Rusty then saw Paul Annett [from Clearleft Ltd in the UK]’s talk “Oooh, That’s Clever! Unnatural Experiments in Web Design”, showing lots of really cool, cute web design hacks that viewers really like. New ways to look at presentation and little details you can add that make your site more unique.

Merin went to see “The Ecosystem of News”, which was a slightly depressing session on the decline of the newspaper, but how online news hasn’t really caught up yet. (Not that online news can’t be good, but rather the challenges that online news has generating the revenue to be able to hire good investigative journalists and writers.) There was a lot applicable to internet radio as well; as the same thing is happening with AM/FM radio and the move to internet radio, but net radio still generates only a fraction of the revenues that AM/FM radio does for the same audience sizes.

No more details as the whole talks will be online in a few weeks, and you should just watch the whole thing if you’re involved with web design.