Three really smart guys trying to launch a social network based on smiley faces and HOWDIES! Two guys are from Carnegie-Mellon. A lot of this didn’t really seem to hit a note and I don’t think it was just me. The panel did not seem to be to prepared to deliver their message. They did […]

I’m in the midst of two talks about volunteerism in the new media age. Posts and pics to come, but I’m off to the second half right now. For those in the Visual Media seminar last year, I did have a chance to talk with the National Geographic webmaster about the PhotoVoice project. While unfamilar […]

This was an interesting panel regarding distribution of DVDs, primarily from the independent filmmakers perspective. One mega-distributor was on hand and took a few shots from the small guys. Gotta put it to the man whenever you can. The talk was mostly centered around the independent and documentary filmmakers getting their material released to an audience. […]

Cindy and the SXSW team were awesome enough to put Sunday, Jon, and myself on the guest list last night for the Web Awards (or “Webbies” as Sunday says is the industry term). Eugene Mirman hosted the event and was pretty hilarious. Not quite as funny though as the Ninja that accepted awards for those […]

Chris Bernard User Experience Evangelist, Silverlight/Microsoft Corp Kevin Flatt Exe Creative Dir, Tribal DDB Garrick Schmitt VP, User Experience, Avenue A | Razorfish Brooke Nanberg Exec Creative Dir, ip pixel Peter Eckert Chief Creative Officer, Projekt202 The panel was sponsored by Microsoft. Due to seating, it was difficult to hear a lot of the discussion, […]

Warren says that secrets have a wisdom to them. After three years, he’s collected more than 200,000 postcards mailed to him, each with a different secret. Postcards are listed anonymously – whether cruel, sad, embarrassing, humorous, etc., and really say something human, usually in one or two lines of text and often accompanied by photos […]

Philip and I went to see Guy Kawasaki (sounds like a motorcycle) moderate a panel with seven members about their experiences – good, bad, profitable, embarrassing, etc. Some of the ethics in journalism came up. One of the better stories was from Kathryn Finney, the owner and creator of www.thebudgetfashionista.com, who received pictures from Sara […]