The amazing thing about SXSW is that the panel you go to may not be what you really expect it to be. That experience happened twice for me on Sunday. The first panel was a presentation put together by Jonathan Richman (@jonmrich). Richman discussed using technology to lengthen our lives and provide a better quality of […]
If rule number one for content creators is to make amazing content, then rule number two is don’t get sued! Josh Sussman, counsel for CollegeHumor, Koethi Zan, counsel for MTV and Luke Paglia, counsel for American-Eagle marketing all spoke about legal issues the content creators need to understand. The panelists were quick to point out that this […]
I couldn’t have said it better myself…”journalism is a sausage factory. It’s messy, but at the end it’s delicious!” Those words led off the panel, “Process Journalism: Getting it First, While Getting it Right.” It was a discussion of the ability to break news stories using technology, using social media and using citizen journalists. Jesus Diaz […]
If you had 30 million page views a month, a deal with HBO for a weekly series and plans to start making movies, one would assume you had it all figured out. For funnyordie.com CEO Dick Glover and Creative Director Andrew Steele, they are still figuring it out. After over a decade of writing for […]
There is something amazing about listening to different people with different experiences and different expertise talk about the same thing. It is especially amazing when the topic is as tough as the one of creating relationships between sub-cultures and the corporate world. It all came together at the Sunday afternoon at the Selling Sub-Culture without […]
ScreenBurn is a great feature of SXSWi that gets bigger every year! It’s a chance for video gamers to get hands with digital media industries. This year’s exhibit is definitely promoting the art of the video games. One of the best exhibits was a collection of 16 award winning creative achievements from the video […]
SXSWi is holding its 13th Annual SXSW Web Awards on Sunday the 14th at the Hilton Downtown. All the website finalists were sites that were launched or redesigned in 2009. Here’s a list of finalists! The M.C. of this year’s award ceremony is comedian Doug Benson. From his many appearances on Comedy Central Presents, NBC’s […]