Design For The Wisdom of Crowds
This discussion was a fun yet informative study of the psychology behind community building and interaction on Websites. This video highlights some of presenter Derek Powazek’s “wisdom” concepts.
March 2009
CSS3: What's Now, What's New and What's Not?
The title of this panel was a bit misleading in that CSS 3 doesn’t even exist yet. Reps from Mozilla, Opera, and Microsoft appeared and showed off the new CSS features they’re working on for CSS 3. Apple was dubiously absent yet again, even after repeated invitations. However, to make up for it, apparently the […]
From No Budget to Low Budget
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 […]
CUNY J-School at SXSWi Trade Show
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 […]
Branding Entertainment: Brands Driving Content
The panel “Branding Entertainment: Brands Driving Content” took place at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday. The experience was interesting with a diverse panel of people from areas such as IFC, Youtube and the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation who talked about filmmaking and the incorporation of brands into it. A poll was held at the beginning of […]
How Do You Measure Success??
“In a word, Digg. Ask anyone at collegehumor how many times we’ve been number 1 on Digg, 7 times.” Ricky Van Veen (collegehumor.com)
Ditch the Valley, Run for the Hills
People in Texas have been hearing for years that Austin is the place in Texas for technology, but what about one of the top tech places to be in the country? The panel “Ditch the Valley, Run for the Hills” covered a healthy discussion of why people with start-ups in mind should look at Silicon […]