Long gone are the days where our only opportunities for meeting our significant others came at the local watering hole. Even online dating has entered an era of complete normality. Now, people are as apt to meet through an app as through a dating website, and those options put together may end in more relationships […]
Net Neutrality: I’m not usually a fan of using blanket statements or absolutes, but I feel pretty comfortable making this one: The biggest thing to happen in interactive news this week was the FCC’s vote on and approval of the Open Internet Order, i.e., net neutrality. The Open Internet Order “[sets] forth clear, sustainable, […]
“When I was in college I would talk a lot about Mars.” When talking to Michael Solana about science fiction and human progress, it becomes quickly apparent that one article about his views on the future are simply not enough to cover everything. Fortunately, he is presenting Science Fiction IRL and Our Road Map to […]
SXsports is one of the newest ventures for SXSW Interactive. It began in 2014 and has already become very popular, attracting many of the top entertainers, personalities and thinkers of the sports industry. As a sports fanatic, this is definitely the segment of SXSW Interactive that I am most looking forward to. There are so […]
Claire Dunn is a digital producer at Spredfast, helping organizations build meaningful relationships with their audiences through social media engagement. She helped conceptualize and develop the first ATX Hack for Change event and then served as lead organizer in the hackathon’s second year. Dunn has spent more than seven years in the tech and higher education industries […]
The landscape for consuming entertainment media has changed. Traditionally, we have been enamored with Hollywood movie starts and actors or actresses on popular television shows, but YouTube and Vine are providing a more unique and relatable form of entertainment media. Rae Votta, one of the panelists for “YouTube Grows Up: Community and Culture,” writes for […]
When talking with Dr. Chirag Patel it is easy to see how far computer technology has come. What he and many others are trying to do is pierce a veil of isolation. Patel’s panel, Your Life in Big Data: Drugs and the Environment, will cover that attempt. Despite our propensity for pattern recognition, it is […]