I have survived my first South By Southwest panel appearance. On my Sunday-morning panel, “Arts Criticism in 140 Characters or Less,” my fellow panelists and I used far more than 140 characters at a shot to explain how social media, especially Twitter, have changed the way we write about the TV shows and movies we write about.
As usual before such panels, I was worried there wouldn’t be enough to say. As usual, on a panel full of professional opinion-havers, there wasn’t nearly enough time to say it, and more great audience questions than we had time to answer. And the whole thing went by in such a blur, I can barely recall what I said, much less the other panelists.
So in the spirit of the topic, I’ll rely on the quotes that our audience tweeted on Twitter to jog my memory:
