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 […]
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 […]
After Michael Steele became chairman of the Republican National Committee, he said he would not only have the Republican party catch up with the Democrats, but surpass them in the technological space. And one look at the old GOP.com could tell you that to do that they would have to start from scratch. “I’m not […]
Robert Millis and Will Coghlan, hosts of the popular podcast Political Lunch, revealed their solution to the question “can online video pay?” at SXSWi Saturday. The Dynamo player is a project the duo has been working on, and which had been shown to only a handful of people before SXSW. It is a video streaming service […]
The clash between legacy media and new media came alive Saturday as David Carr, of the New York Times, and Markos Moulitsas, the founder of Daily Kos, argued about the relevance, the importance and the place of the revered paper. While the debate got heated, both sides were civil as Carr debated Moulitsas’ arguement whether or not the New York […]
“Tenure is broken and it’s holding universities back,” said the panelists at “Universities in the Free Era. Glenn Platt from the Miami University Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies and Peg Faimon from Miami University Design Collaborative talked about why they see the traditional university structure collapsing. Platt said tenure holds universities back the most. When he […]
In the past two years crowdsourcing has often popped up as a Web 2.0 buzz word, but there are a few important questions that few have asked since the discussion on the phenomenon started: what exactly entails crowdsourcing and is it sustainable? That’s exactly what Scott Belsky, of behence, and Jeffrey Kalmikoff, of Digg and […]