SXSW Journalists need to get out of the beer tent and see real world (Shock, Horror)

So, apparently there is Twitter Saturation and Text Constipation and so on at SxSW. On Saturation, CNet claims:

At a conference with scores of panels and seemingly just as many parties, being able to determine what's worthwhile is crucial for people trying to get the most out of their time here.

Crucial, I tell ye - its life and death out here if you don't know the coolest party 30 seconds before anyone else

This year because of the conference's impressive growth and Twitter's broader mainstream appeal, it has become almost impossible to find the same value as in the past. I did a search for the "#sxsw" tag on Saturday afternoon and found that there had been 392 tweets with the term in just the previous 10 minutes. That number mushroomed to more than 1,500 in the previous hour.

So - do you make a plan, follow your friends, search with something as well as #SxSW in the search stream? Problem solved, you would think. Oh no, its a Crisis, a Catastrophe of Epic Proportions - so you Blog, Twitter and Text the angst:

but many people using Twitter at SXSW do so on mobile phones. And being the cutting edge of the digerati set, the most common device in evidence here is the iPhone. But Kadavy said he hadn't found a way to do the kind of filtered search he wanted, and as a result, seemed hard-pressed to accomplish what he'd need to while on the go.

See above comment about adding words to search streams. Yup, its rocket science I know, but hey these are clever people after all.....

On another matter, it would seem that mobile telephony is causing untold chaos and devastation as well:

many people are frustrated with the lousy mobile service AT&T (T) is providing. (Our $100/month iPhone has "no service" in the press room, for instance.)

It is, clearly, the End of Civilisation as we know it. In other news today, a small conference of some 9,000 people, hundreds of panels and thousands of conversations is being held in parallel...and the WiFi works without missing a beat. Beat that....

I trotted down to the Blogger's lounge yesterday, there were Journos and Bloggers ( wannabe and ex journos) everywhere (there's free beer there, you see.....) and the press of bodies made a London Tube in rush hour look like a quiet country pub. Foetid atmosphere, noisy braying people everywhere, can't move for the press of bodies, flickering screens of all types. You get the scene - its a geek orgy.

Meh. Piece of advice - get out the moshpit and stop sweating the Netz with the small stuff - go to some panels and listen rather than twittering constantly for self reassurance that you do exist, and talk to some real people for longer than it takes to twt a soundbite.

Now - which of you Journos will buy me a beer for such good advice

PS: Trolling - I don't even know the word............