After Barack Obama swept into the White House on a popular wave of support, not to mention eight years of President Bush, giving the Republican Party a new image might have seemed like the toughest job in Washington D.C. But after Michael Steele was elected chairman of the Republican National Committee promising a new Republican […]
The Tweet House, produced by The Parnassus Group and Chevrolet, was an additional series of panels and events held at Mellow Johnny’s bike shop on Nueces, a few blocks from the main action at the convention center. I dropped by for the afternoon panel with Jim Louderback – CEO of Revision 3, Dom Sagolla – […]
Samantha Toy’s 2:00 panel “Get Stoked about Web Typography” was the second part of three panels today focused on web design, and while this is the only one I attended, it was chalk-full of ideas, inspiration, and outside-the-box thinking about one of the most exciting parts of a web designer’s job: fonts! Starting off with […]
Whether you’re a Southby veteran or a nerd newbie, you’ll definitely want to know how to make the most of SXSW Interactive this year. And while we’ve had some preliminary posts on our own advice, it’s always good to ask some people who could probably write an entire book on it. In the panel How […]
Douglas Rushkoff, host of the documentaries The Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders and most recently Digital Nation, gave a thought-provoking talk titled Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age. Rushkoff’s main point was that it is important to be able to contend with the biases of digital media, to be able to […]
SXSWi is holding its 13th Annual SXSW Web Awards on Sunday the 14th at the Hilton Downtown. All the website finalists were sites that were launched or redesigned in 2009. Here’s a list of finalists! The M.C. of this year’s award ceremony is comedian Doug Benson. From his many appearances on Comedy Central Presents, NBC’s […]
Attention all SXSW attendees, let the QR coding begin. At least, that’s what this year’s organizers are hoping for. QR Codes are fairly new to the U.S. and until recently were primarily used by Google’s Android mobile operating system. QR Code is short for Quick Response and is a type of barcode that can include […]