Around 60 million websites around the world are powered by WordPress, and nearly a quarter of all new active domains use it. At the same time, an increasing number of organizations using the content management system are looking to engage audiences across platforms with responsive design. Jesse Friedman, director of Web and interface development at […]
The lack of diversity in the innovative field of tech and startups is an issue that is being addressed more and more frequently. This absence of diversity ranges from gender, to race, to sexual orientation and beyond. This year’s SXSW Interactive programming features a theme specifically geared toward these issues, and will continue to influence […]
When Kevin Nguyen and Nick Martens founded The Bygone Bureau in 2007, few online publications offered outlets for the kind of pieces they wanted to publish: long-form essays examining life, culture and art. At the time, the rise of easy to create multimedia content seemed to be sounding a death knell for long-form writing on […]
High School Athletics & Exploitation of Athletes Tuesday, March 12 | 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Hyatt Regency Austin Hill Country ABCD As a Southerner [specifically, as a homegrown Texan], I can personally attest to the notion that high school athletics reign supreme over many collegiate and professional competitive sports that are consumed by wide audiences […]
PBS has spent the past 40 years cultivating the highest standards in television programming and developing its sterling reputation. How does an organization with that kind of brand evolve and adjust to a rapidly changing media landscape while maintaining its core identity and dedication to quality programming? PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger will explore […]
Life on the Line: Tweeting the Drug War Saturday, March 9, 3:30PM – 4:30PM Austin Convention Center, Room 5ABC [View the story “Citizen Journalists in Cartel Run Mexico Turn to Twitter” on Storify] The complex relationship the United States has with its southern neighbor, Mexico, is the often the subject of reports on crime, immigration […]
Who Owns the Data? Self-Tracking to Health 2.0 Saturday, March 9 12:30PM – 1:30PM Sheraton Austin, Creekside In today’s world, it’s not enough to only consider how web and smart phone data influence your life. What about the data being collected about your health? In the past, data was paper based and technically was owned […]