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Politics, Technology, and Pop Culture

Politics, Technology, and Pop Culture, comprised of Lawrence Lessig of Stanford Law School, Alex Wellen, Deputy Political Director of Digital Content at CNNPolitics.com, Dan Patterson of ABC News, Tom Serres CEO of Piryx Inc, Amber Ettinger (Obama Girl) and Mark McKinnon Vice Chairman of Public Strategies Inc.     McKinnon, commented on the earlier Republican […]

Tips for Making Ideas Happen with Scott Belsky

Creativity x Organization = Impact Scott Belsky, CEO of Behance speaks about the fact that most ideas never happen. “I strongly believe that great ideas don’t happen simply becuase they are great or by accident,” said Belsky. He believes this is mostly due to a lack of accountability, lack of leadership, disorganization and isolated networks […]

IM Video Journalism with David Dunkley Gyimah

At the Integrated Multimedia Video Journalism panel with David Dunkley Gyimah, British VJ(video journalist, lecturer and publisher of View Magazine. Gyimah began his video career with BBC had a stint at Channel One as a VJ then back to BBC and is now a Lecturer and two years into a PhD study. Gyimah defines VJ […]

Steven Johnson and the Ecosystem of News

Steven Johnson, known best for his hyper-local community site outside.in, was a one-man show Friday at the panel “The Ecosystem of News.” His lecture, which was was full of very good analogies and metaphors regarding the news industry, began with reflection on how Johnson used to get his news on the Mac industry through the […]

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 […]

The first full day of SXSW is today – and if it’s your first time to go, you may get a little overwhelmed. Here are some tips provided by Fazia Rizvi and Ernie Hsiung. Fazia has been to SXSW many times and is very familiar with how things work. Ernie is the genious behind the blog little.yellow.different […]