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SXSWesteros

Winter is coming. Okay, that isn’t very accurate, but Winter has come to the Austin Music Hall. Fans of the HBO series Game of Thrones can experience life in Westeros at Game of Thrones: The Exhibition. Featuring hundreds of props and replicas from all four seasons of the popular show, Game of Thrones: The Exhibition […]

A Texas Filibuster: How Streaming Politics Beat TV

On June 25 at midnight, nearly 200,000 people worldwide were watching the Wendy Davis filibuster. Zero of those viewers were watching on CNN or Fox News or MSNBC. Instead, anyone that wanted to watch the most interesting political story of the summer, and quite possibly the year, tuned in to the Texas Tribune livestream. Rodney […]

Taking Risks for Great Social Storytelling

Art and social media are not necessarily things that you would think compliment each other. One seems a thoughtful, deep and meaningful media while the other is often regarded as fleeting and meaningless. However, Dan Fletcher who is founder of Beacon, a startup that connects readers and writers to fund journalism and artist Tanja Hollander beg […]

SXSW Marketing Expo Through Google Glass

The SXSW marketing EXPO allows start ups to established brands a place to set up booths and focus on introducing new products promoting special deals and serve as a general trade show. Using Google Glass today I walked through the marketing expo to see the hundreds of booths that vendors had set up to display […]

Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald appeared before an audience 10x smaller then Edward Snowden’s panel. He didn’t need to be patched through 7 proxies to speak with SXSW, and he spoke from what looked like an office in his house. His panel hit home on what journalism should be. For the people. His work with Snowden has been […]