Lindsay Stillman is Senior Producer at GSD&M. During SxSwi 2011, she is acting as a “Surrogate” for GSD&M. “Surrogates” are the title given to GSD&M employees who go out and actively participate in SxSw. Afterward, it is their duty to come back to the agency and report what they saw, learned & discovered to the […]
I got to meet Josh Williams, Co-Founder of Gowalla, which was amazing! In this interview, Andrew Waldrup, Texas State graduate & Gowalla employee, explains Gowalla’s presence at SxSw. The Gowalla airstream is up on 5th street in between Trinity and San Jacinto. Gowalla and crew were on site handing out awesome T-shirts and passports for […]
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This panel very quickly turned into a conversation featuring representatives from Al-Jazeera English, NPR, MSNBC.com, Reuters and other media organizations. Social media isn’t responsible for revolutions. No one is arguing that here. Only 5 percent of people in Libya, for example, have Internet access. But it does play an important role. The conversation bounced around […]