Get ready! Expanding on last year’s popular SXSWi Core Conversation (and Audience Favorite winner!) “Improv Lessons for Freelancers,” Team Hirsch will be returning to Austin with their new presentation: “Improv for Everyone,” a panel that explores how improvised comedy can help professionals of all types have more fulfilling careers. Hunh? Improv? You bet! During a […]
Taras Wayner and Chloe Gottlieb of R/GA presented Sextual + Nudie Pics = Digital Violence Among Teens at SXSW Interactive 2010. With the advancement of the digital era many different aspects of communication have changed. Dating and violence among teens has changed dramatically and have crossed mediums. Now teens are faced with violence via texting […]
A large portion of our class were thrown into the wonderful (and sometimes chaotic) world of SXSWi for the first time this year. We all had fun, we all networked, and some of us even got caught in panels that we didn’t fully understand. However most of us learned a few things and came away […]
Fark.com is the go to web site for silly news stories. So naturally its creator, Drew Curtis, was the obvious choice to host a panel on “How to Save Journalism” at SXSWi 2010. Curtis is a funny guy. Actually, he’s really funny. But the panel wasn’t all fun and games. It covered some serious topics […]
More than any other social media, Twitter has had a profound effect on news. I personally was most looking forward to the SXSWi core conversation about this very topic. It didn’t disappoint and it’s a conversation every news director should be having with his or her newsroom. This particular discussion featured some heavy hitters in […]
The entertainment didn’t end with the keynote addresses wrapped up each day at SXSWi. As people filed out of the keynote area, they still had to get their “rap-up.” Yes, a rap-up. Austin rapper SaulPaul was brought to SXSWi to develop a rap that highlighted the keypoints of each day’s keynote. SaulPaul made up the […]
By Maira Garcia Daniel Ek, CEO of the European live streaming music site Spotify, gave the final keynote for SXSW Interactive 2010. He was interviewed by Eliot Van Buskirk of Wired.com. Currently, Spotify is only available in Europe but they are examining ways to have the site in the United States. The biggest issue for having the […]