After sitting through several “mobile web” dominated panels at SXSW, where the topic of text messaging and other interesting traits of the mobile medium never came to surface , it was a “Sweet Relief” to meet up with Scott Dudelson. The founder of Music For Charity Productions, the 26-year-old Dudelson was at the Austin music, arts and technology festival promoting an SMS fundraising effort for Sweet Relief, a non-for-profit organization that provides financial aid for artists who are older, unable to work and cannot pay for medical and or other needs. Dudelson was not there for the Interactive part of the SXSW festival, his badge was exclusively for Music. But his text messaging, fundraising and music mashup was right on the cusp of both worlds and was one of the most interesting and practical integration of the mobile medium into different media that I saw at SXSW.

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