Steven Johnson, known best for his hyper-local community site outside.in, was a one-man show Friday at the panel “The Ecosystem of News.” His lecture, which was was full of very good analogies and metaphors regarding the news industry, began with reflection on how Johnson used to get his news on the Mac industry through the […]
In this interview Burnie Burns, founder of Rooster Teeth Productions and creator of Red versus Blue talks about the path he took to get and keep an online audience for his wildly popular series. Burnie is part of the SXSW Panel “Marketing Meets New Media: Building Your Audience Online” on Sunday at 3:30p.m. in Room […]
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 […]
Alex Bogusky of the renowned interactive agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky talks about a new project, contracted by Humana and Trek, to introduce bike sharing in the US. Bogusky’s firm is taking an all encompassing approach to the project, that includes marketing, promotion, social media, technology and logistics. ]
As Kristin and I searched for parking and entered the Austin Convention Center Friday afternoon, the sacred arena of SXSW Interactive, we were overwhelmed by the amount of laptops, cameras, video cameras, smart phones, (the list continues) in one given area. We met up with Dee Kapila from GirlStart as she was checking in, and […]
Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon shoots video for the Statesman. Here he captures some sights and sounds from Day 1 at SXSW Interactive. Yup, that’s me.
Mairin Heard and Kristin McCasland, both grad students working on this project, are interviewing Dee Kapila of GirlStart.org. She was one of my students last year, and participated on our blog project. Now, she’s the head of a panel (that I will be on) taking place on Monday, Gaming as a Gateway Drug: Getting Girls […]