After the panel

Reactions, takeaways and follow-ups from SXSW.

The conversation around our Future of Context panel at SXSW could not have been better. The session was extraordinarily well-blogged and well-tweeted, and the discussion afterwards – on this site and elsewhere – has been wonderfully thought-provoking. In case you missed it, here’s a round-up:

Capturing the session

• Full audio of the session is available in excellent quality on the SXSW site.
• You can read or download the full archive of #futureofcontext tweets for real-time reactions and notes. (Thanks, @ChannelYush!)
• Elise Hu of the Texas Tribune wrote a fantastic summary of the session.
• Steve Myers of the Poynter Institute wrote the definitive liveblog of the session.

Takeaways

• Michelle McLellan at the Knight Digital Media Center added some insights to the discussion.
• Jeremy Littau of Lehigh University takes the conversation in a provocative new direction, weaving it in with ideas about transmedia storytelling and gaming.
• Joey Baker of Meraki started a great thread about the idea of enabling users to follow topics.
• Stijn Debrouwere has laid out what might be the definitive depiction of a better classification system for news.
• Rex Hammock of Hammock, Inc., was especially taken with the possibilities suggested by software like Apture.

Aftermatter

• Jay Rosen wrote a spectacular list of 10 elements that went into the planning for the Future of Context session to make it successful.

The discussion continues here and over the #futureofcontext hashtag on Twitter.