Sunday

This discussion was a fun yet informative study of the psychology behind community building and interaction on Websites. This video highlights some of presenter Derek Powazek’s “wisdom” concepts.

CSS3: What's Now, What's New and What's Not?

The title of this panel was a bit misleading in that CSS 3 doesn’t even exist yet.  Reps from Mozilla, Opera, and Microsoft appeared and showed off the new CSS features they’re working on for CSS 3.  Apple was dubiously absent yet again, even after repeated invitations.  However, to make up for it, apparently the […]

This excellent indie film related panel consisted of the following people: Meghan Scibona: a producer/director from Small Media Extra Large Jason Nunes: whom I recognized from a similar panel last year  a wrtier at Small Media Extra Large. Felicia Day: the creator of the web series “The Guild” Kevin Sullivan: producer Asia Minor Productions Michael […]

CUNY J-School at SXSWi Trade Show

I ran into Stephen Dougherty, a Director of Admissions and Student affairs from the CUNY graduate program in journalism, at the SXSWi trade show.  He mentioned that a colleauge of his had recently visited Texas State and was impressed with the program’s adoption of New Media. CUNY was recently in the spotlight when New York […]

Branding Entertainment: Brands Driving Content

The panel “Branding Entertainment: Brands Driving Content” took place at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday. The experience was interesting with a diverse panel of people from areas such as IFC, Youtube and the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation who talked about filmmaking and the incorporation of brands into it. A poll was held at the beginning of […]

In this interview Burnie Burns, founder of Rooster Teeth Productions and creator of Red versus Blue talks about the path he took to get and keep an online audience for his wildly popular series. Burnie is part of the SXSW Panel “Marketing Meets New Media: Building Your Audience Online” on Sunday at 3:30p.m. in Room […]