Josh Williams, creator and CEO of Gowalla Inc., was the Statesman’s Social Media Awards winner and chatted with Texas State student who were there supporting their professor, Cindy Royal. Royal was also a Social Media Awards winner. Check out the chat:
Austin Kleon, Sunni Brown, Mike Rohde and Dave Gray like to draw, and they like to share information. They combine their passions into something called visual note-taking. Some might find visual note-taking daunting, but these four break it down to make it not so scary. And in typical visual note-taker fashion, the session was mostly […]
The Panel “Why Gen Y wants to work with you, not for you” kind of turned into a very lightly moderated conversation between panelists and audience members. Some people just started shouting questions and unfortunately panelists rewarded this by answering back. It was less about why Gen Y wants to work with people, and concentrated […]
Today at SXSW 2010, Scott Thomas interviewed Burnie Burns, creator of Red vs. Blue, and founder of Rooster Teeth Productions. We caught him in his Austin office this afternoon and talked about his newest projects, machinima, gaming, and the interactive gaming industry.
Drupal founder Dries Buytaert laid out his case for Drupal being the CMS for the future at SXSWi panel on Monday. Drupal is a free, open source Content Management System that allows for open development from anywhere. At its most basic, Drupal is akin to something like WordPress, which allows for easy publication without FTP […]
Web writing specialists Erin Anderson (Brain Traffic), Tiffani Jones (thingsthatarebrown LLC), Ian Alexander (Eat Media), and Dan Maccarone (Four Square) presented tips, ideas, and guidelines for web-optimized writing in their interactive panel, “Writing Web Content for a Living.” The panelists began by defining web writing as follows: Ian Alexander: Web writing is more than just […]
Our team prepares on early Sunday morning. This Sunday morning was particularly early, considering the time change… we lost an hour. We check in with Dr. Cindy Royal, our professor, and with our technology to make sure everything is charged, connected, and ready to capture, blog, post, tweet, stream, etc. Aside from the panels, […]