After Barack Obama swept into the White House on a popular wave of support, not to mention eight years of President Bush, giving the Republican Party a new image might have seemed like the toughest job in Washington D.C. But after Michael Steele was elected chairman of the Republican National Committee promising a new Republican […]
SXSWi is holding its 13th Annual SXSW Web Awards on Sunday the 14th at the Hilton Downtown. All the website finalists were sites that were launched or redesigned in 2009. Here’s a list of finalists! The M.C. of this year’s award ceremony is comedian Doug Benson. From his many appearances on Comedy Central Presents, NBC’s […]
One of the wonderful things about the web is that you can create and join communities of people that are just like you. However if you want the type of content that keeps people coming back for more, you have to know a lot about your audience. We spoke to Trish Bendix of MTV/AfterEllen.com about […]
A band of self-professed computer geeks from New Orleans rented a bus and stormed South By Southwest last year to show the world that the Big Easy is back. That trip is the inspiration for a panel at this year’s SXSW Interactive called, “Uprising Tide: Inciting Online Communities into Offline Movements.” “It’s a bunch of […]
As you fill up your my.sxsw schedule with amazing panels and core conversations, don’t forget about the ever-entertaining SXSW Interactive Web Awards Ceremony Presented by Adobe. With comedian Doug Benson emceeing this year, it’s bound to be a night full of laughs and Web beauty as the best sites of the year are revealed. Although […]
“There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is […]
SXSWi isn’t just for citizen journalists. People who work in TV, radio and print news will also have plenty to learn. Having worked in TV or radio news for ten years, I’ve seen first hand that the news industry needs help. Some stations get social media and the digital age, but there are still a […]