Jon Zmikly

Now that I’ve finally loaded the Mac, all the awesome facts we were just reading are gone. A summation: With all the corporate computers running through the night, you can just imagine how much energy is wasted. We can all do our part. For example, look at this slide on how much we waste physical […]

Peter Kirn cdm: Create Digital Media Joy Mountford VP Design Innovation, joymountford.com Jon and Theresa here at the Data As Art panel, in an extremely packed room and a British-accented panelist. Her name is Joy Mountford and she’s the vice president of Design Innovation. Peter Kirn of Create Digital Media is with her. We are […]

Some interesting points Mark Zuckerberg made in his keynote speech: Facebook’s goal is to help people communicate more effectively and to extend relationships beyond face to face The best way to make a site is from the bottom up, from the users and not necessarily from the “creators” Facebook is launching in France tonight The […]

Interesting Sight #127: Probably the most Legos I have ever seen in one place Interesting Sight #128: Panelist Pat Ramsey from “Cooking Up Accessible Video For Web” wearing a kilt

Hey, it’s Jon again…sitting here in a packed room of web coders and Dreamweaver lovers. I feel a little out of place at this one, as I’m not completely sure what they’re talking about. However, I did get a lot out of this panel before they started with this crazy coding jargon, using words like […]

Hey it’s Jon here at the Conference Center, above is what I am seeing RIGHT NOW! in room 18ABCD, listening to a panel called Social Design Strategies. The panelists are talking about “leverage reciprocity” in a social networking site…. DEF: Leverage Reciprocity – when making a web page, users will put more into the site […]

What ever shall I do with my valuable SXSW time next week? So many panels to choose from, and, sheepishly, I don’t want to be alone for them all! Leaving some buffer time to visit panels with other “Southby” visiting classmates, here’s my tentative list: 10:00 a.m. – Scope Creep and Other Villains – Fun […]