2011

Just a few days before SXSWi starts, I spoke with Texas State University School of Journalism & Mass Communication alumni Andrew McNeill and Sarah Garcia. Andrew and Sarah both currently work at SXSW, and I was able to do a quick interview with them at the new SXSW headquarters located at the corner of Bowie and 5th […]

Serious Face

I’ve been so busy checking out all the panel descriptions that I haven’t really given any thought to which ones I’d actually be attending. So with the main event looming ever closer and the more experienced showgoers beating it into my head that “preparedness is key to survival,” I suppose it’s time to start laying […]

Preview – How Farmers Get Serious Business Done With Mobile

A first glance at the title for this panel might tempt one to think that the word “farmers” is a techie euphemism for something other than farmers … but it isn’t.  “Farmers” means “farmers” – hard work, crops, livestock, tractors, weather, harvesting, soil, long hours, … well, you get the idea.  “Business” means “business,” and “mobile” […]

SWTSU JC Kellam 1983

Some questions don’t have immediately apparent answers, but are important because of the expanding array of open-ended questions that result from them.  Many who routinely deal with such topics are well-versed in rote knowledge and empirical data – but (perhaps even more importantly) they also act as facilitators for the fluid, polydirectional discussions of these […]

Where's all our data going?

Every time we type our name, birthday, address, favorite color, or so on into another pesky field, we don’t ponder its future or how it will be used. Signing up for a website? A joke a day? Ordering something from a sketchy looking site? We take these “free” services for granted and up until recently […]

As my day was just starting and hers was winding down, moderator of The Last of the Launch and Leave ‘Ems Anjali Ramachandran, who is based in London, and I met on Skype for a quick interview about her upcoming SXSWi panel. The Last of the Launch and Leave ‘Ems will discuss the fleeting trend […]