This one is about how advertisers can leverage word-of-mouth via user-generated video. The solo panelist is Daphne Kwon from ExpoTV. She had some pretty interesting insights about engaging users that I think are as relevant for corporate blogs as they are to video. It really is about giving up control and providing tools to support […]

Kathy Sierra of the blog Creating Passionate Users, returned to SXSW after a tough year. Just after last year’s conference, she received some graphic online threats which caused her an understandable amount of distress. She canceled some appearances and stopped blogging. It is terrifying to think that these are the things with which one has […]

I have not yet had a chance to prepare my thoughts on the Zuckerberg keynote, but I couldn’t resist getting this posted. Sarah Lacy makes so many inaccurate comments here. She incorrectly categorizes SXSW as a “developer conference,” when it is attended by a diverse, intelligent, and insightful audience that includes designers, journalists, students, educators, […]

I checked out one Book Reading at SXSW: The Second Life Herald When a virtual journalist for a virtual newspaper reporting on the digital world of an online game lands on the real-world front page of the New York Times, it just might signal the dawn of a new era. Virtual journalist Peter Ludlow was […]

Thanks Theresa for helping get these pictures up! A. Sunday Udoetok

In Google rankings, roughly 80 percent is what people are saying about you and 20% is what you are saying about yourself. (Biggest thing is your title tag) Good content gets links, don’t let Search Engine Optimizers (SEOs) write your content. SEOs are basically made up of failed journalists. Write it yourself or hire a […]

The LOLWUT (icanhascheezburger.com) panel is giving out cheeseburgers. LOL no wai! Teh Internetz R serious biznes. For more on the Lolcat phenomenon, check out the entry at Wikipedia. This was a fantastic (and funny) panel on the contradictions of this successful site. Fazia Rizvi