SXSW and Question of the Week

In class yesterday, I perhaps mistakenly conflated the various South by Southwest (SXSW) events. In truth, as you'll see if you click on the link, there are three related events: the Film conference and festival, which takes place March 13-22; the Interactive festival, which overlaps with the early part of the week; and the Music and Media conference, which gets started tomorrow. (You can access the report on the publishing meltdown here.)

All this leads to the Question of the Week:

What can publishing learn from developments in music, film, and new media?

If you have been missing blog posts -- and some of you have, in a big way -- I'd like you to try to catch up now. Use this question, if you want, as an opportunity to explore the tech/publishing relationship. There are plenty of blogs on the right that explore that question in some detail.