One of my most bitter disappointments about SXSW2008 this year was the lack of tangible take-aways from the sessions. A quote that really inspired me before last year’s festival was this by John Gruber of Daring Fireball: SXSW is the only conference I know where designers and developers hang out. Designers have design conferences. Developers have nerd conferences. http://daringfireball.net/2007/02/sxsw_2007_rands