It’s time for the interactive community to get off its collective butt and do something to help build a more sustainable world, according to Sunday’s keynote speaker. Valerie Casey called the community to action at her presentation, “Designing a Movement: Integrating Sustainability Through Systems Thinking.” Casey is the founder and executive director of Designers Accord, […]
Africa, contrary to what we might be led to believe by the news, is not all famine and civil war. Internet use on the continent is skyrocketing, and investors in the human capital of various African nations are making their presence felt. Teddy Ruge, co-founder of Project Diaspora, described Africa’s ascent in the tech world […]
Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, authors of “Trust Agents,” doled out some of their irreverent wisdom on social media during their panel “I Don’t Trust You One Single Bit.” “You can’t offer anyone any amount of money to make them your friend,” Smith said. The same idea applies in social media. Everyone is out there, […]
Two up-and-coming media professionals discussed ways to pay for quality journalism–and neither mentioned display ads or classifieds. David Cohn, a former writer for Wired, launched spot.us a year ago on a Knight Foundation grant. He and a small staff review “pitches” for news and feature stories in the Los Angeles and San Francisco By areas. […]
A band of self-professed computer geeks from New Orleans rented a bus and stormed South By Southwest last year to show the world that the Big Easy is back. That trip is the inspiration for a panel at this year’s SXSW Interactive called, “Uprising Tide: Inciting Online Communities into Offline Movements.” “It’s a bunch of […]
You know it better than anyone else on your block–the country’s going to Hell in a hand basket, and somebody ought to throw the bums who got us in this mess out on their ear. The Man (Woman?) is keeping us down, and you’re by God gonna do something about it! The times are ripe […]