Where can you learn to film sex, date blog, compute your sexuality, and pat yourself wildly on the back, all over the course of a few days?

The answer, of course, is the SXSW Festival in Austin Texas, possibly the most frenetic culture festival on the planet. It’s actually three festivals in one; film, music, and interactive, each with its own overwhelming number of panel discussions, keynote addresses, and best of all performances and exhibitions by bands, filmmakers, and web geeks from across the country and around the world.

I’m attending the festival to participate on a panel called Sex and Computational Technology, part of the interactive stream, but hope to come back with answers to some of the burning questions raised by the newest of new technologies. Questions such as:

• Do you blog on the first date?
• How can you film sex scenes and keep them in your theatrical release?
• How do thin, white women have manage to move from the internet to broadcast television with such ease?
• Why would anyone want to refer to themselves as a “blogebrity”?

Truth be told there are dozens of other events and panels worth checking out (just in case you’re going to be in Austin from March 9-18). If you’re the sort of person who isn’t sure that attending a festival made up mostly of people who choose to spend their work lives alone in front a computer, is your cup of tea, I’m sure many of the panels will find their way on line via podcasting, vlogging, and possibly even into print in those old fashion newspapers I’ve been reading about lately.

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