Went to the Convention Center, picked up my badge. Didn’t have too long a wait, things seemed a bit more organized than in the past, but it could have had something to do with the time. Jumped in the 5pm session entitled Respect! What a great way to start off the week. Panelists were superstar […]
Hey All! So after a tough round of choices–most notably ditching a talk on Roman influences and the web–I picked my slate. The talks tomorrow include: Creating Findable Rich Media ContentThe Talk with Henry Jenkins and Steven JohnsonRedrum in the Rue Morgue:Collaboration in International Communities [Gawd what a great name!]Social Network Coups: The Users are […]
Whew! Grabbed my badge and my bag of goodies and managed to spot one Interactive celebrity – Heather Armstrong, who blogs at Dooce. Armstrong’s fame can be traced back to 2002 when she was fired from her job for things she’d blogged, igniting a firestorm of discussion about privacy. While I was aware of the […]
I just wanted to highlight this bit from the 15 Last-Minute Tips for SXSW Interactive: SXSW has produced a nifty video to orient you to the layout of activities for SXSW at the Austin Convention Center. Check it out! Fazia Rizvi
Sunday I began the process of decompressing from another SXSW. Just think, only six months until ACLFest. As I began to sift through the 1s and 0s I had collected during the course of SXSW, I realized the images ranged from Mark Cuban & that other guy to Moby.Here are but a few of the […]
As as avid gadget lover and tremendous fan of all things Long Tail; the panel I am most interested in is Hardware Mashups: Introducing the Long Tail of Gadgets. Peter Semmelhack Founder and CEO, of Bug Labs will be leading the panel. Bug Labs takes an open-source approach to hardware that allows those without a […]
The keynote address by Frank Warren on Monday should be interesting. Frank, yes, we are on a first-name basis (not really), is the founder and curator of around 200,000 postcards mailed anonymously from all corners of the world. He has put many of the cards into books that landed on the New York Times best-seller […]