Wow, SXSW was a blur of activity once again. I spent 11 days in the Convention Center, starting on March 7 with my talk on Is Your Curriculum Digital Enough?, going through Interactive with these fantastic students and wrapping things up with some Music panels and shows. Here are a few of the main takeaways […]
Now comes the time at the end of SXSW where I try to summarize the past two weeks of inspiration, insanity and exhaustion. There are so many high points, it’s hard to focus on just a few, and I am sure that clarity will emerge more over time. First of all, having graduate students be […]
We’re testing Evrybit during SXSW. Evrybit is a mobile reporting platform. Each day, a different person will run our Evrybit and embed it on our site. Follow along throughout the day!
Wow. Ten years. It seems like only yesterday when an upstart politician named Barack Obama was making a play for the White House, Adele was 19 and a group of Texas State students saw a young Mark Zuckerberg talk about his big vision for the relatively new Facebook at SXSW 2008. I first attended SXSW Interactive […]
We’ve been talking about technology and innovation so much the past week that we’ve half expected to come home and find more pamphlets and VR tech sitting on the kitchen table. The Onion is quite right – innovation is what SXSW is about, and maybe we’ve heard enough of the same themes to get along […]
President Barack Obama will appear as part of a Keynote Conversation at SXSW Interactive on Friday, March 11 and First Lady Michelle Obama will be the opening Keynote at SXSW Music on Wednesday, March 16. This marks the first time in the 30-year history of SXSW that a sitting President and the First Lady have […]
This is the eighth year of the SXTXState.com project, a course I teach where graduate students prep for and attend SXSW Interactive. What a blast we had. It’s always so great to see the students integrating into the SXSW community, doing interviews and having conversations. This year, TXST students heard from and met with people […]