I couldn’t find the room for the panel about getting users to contribute content so I ducked into a panel about Geo cache games… which ended up being very interesting.   I had heard of the traditional GPS treasure hunt type thing, but these guys took it way beyond that by meshing GPS, new technologies, […]

I spoke with Lisa Donavan briefly Saturday morning… She was nice. From her Youtube content she got a gig with MadTV.  These are some other guyz who also got picked up due to their own content.  They are on SNL now.  They also made a movie.  Chris Troutman

Lisa Donavan took a popular YouTube presence and turned it into a job with Mad TV and several online shows she contributes content towards. Marc Speir

The Suxorz This panel featured Steve Hall, Jeff Jarvis, Rebecca Lieb, and Charlotte Selles. Moderator Henry Copeland went down the line, letting the panelists nominate one ad or campaign that was either unethical or just plain crap from companies during 2007. ROUND 1 First nominee is Molson. They used their Facebook account to get people […]

How do you navigate this emerging digital landscape? What are the economics of it, and will it save you money? The number of digital screens is increasing. Weilder-Blues Bros approach-carried around server wherever he went and showed the film. Used sns to drive people to the screenings. Head Trauma-2006 release. Wintner-2008, infrastructure not there for […]

So, all four of us covering SXSW Interactive for this blog today are in the same panel- Quit Your Day Job and Vlog. And I don’t think I’ll be quitting my job. Well, that is, if I had one. However, here are a few photos and clips from the panel. I’m going to leave it […]

I’m live blogging from inside SXSW. The first panel of my SXSW experience was Quit Your Day Job and Vlog, which is a panel about people who want to make vlogging their day job, duh. The panelists have made a career out of vlogging, and have experienced relative success. The panel opened up with Pirates […]