This excellent indie film related panel consisted of the following people: Meghan Scibona: a producer/director from Small Media Extra Large Jason Nunes: whom I recognized from a similar panel last year a wrtier at Small Media Extra Large. Felicia Day: the creator of the web series “The Guild” Kevin Sullivan: producer Asia Minor Productions Michael […]
I ran into Stephen Dougherty, a Director of Admissions and Student affairs from the CUNY graduate program in journalism, at the SXSWi trade show. He mentioned that a colleauge of his had recently visited Texas State and was impressed with the program’s adoption of New Media. CUNY was recently in the spotlight when New York […]
Politics, Technology, and Pop Culture, comprised of Lawrence Lessig of Stanford Law School, Alex Wellen, Deputy Political Director of Digital Content at CNNPolitics.com, Dan Patterson of ABC News, Tom Serres CEO of Piryx Inc, Amber Ettinger (Obama Girl) and Mark McKinnon Vice Chairman of Public Strategies Inc. McKinnon, commented on the earlier Republican […]
The first full day of SXSW is today – and if it’s your first time to go, you may get a little overwhelmed. Here are some tips provided by Fazia Rizvi and Ernie Hsiung. Fazia has been to SXSW many times and is very familiar with how things work. Ernie is the genious behind the blog little.yellow.different […]
I spoke with Ben Brown of XOXCO on Thursday afternoon about his upcoming panel: What Do I Do With Myself, Now That the Economy Has Collapsed? The panel with take place on Sunday in room 9 at 3:30. Visit XOXCO.com to play Ben’s video game Click to Swim and save that poor polar bear from […]
Many City of Austin employees are working for SXSW in different ways. Beth Krauss, media relations manager at the Convention and Visitors Bureau, says they are expecting more than 150,000 attendees this year. She says that having fun and meeting new people are the most important part of SXSW.