Joshua Rosenbaum, creator of the panel “Death of the Demo; Rise of Branded Tutorial,” will discuss how the 40-minute-long video demo has come and gone, and that short, interesting video tutorials keep the “socially networked audience” entertained and coming back for more short bursts of information. Rosenbaum describes the Web as a “short-attention-span theater” where […]
Jessica Lawrence is the CEO of Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio Council in Southern California. Her 2011 SXSW panel titled “Rebel in a Polyester Sash: Rehabbing Corporate Culture” will tell the story of her success in transforming her organization’s corporate culture. Jessica started out as a development associate at the Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio […]
Jeff Caldwell and I chatted about his upcoming SXSW panel “How Farmers Get Serious Business Done With Mobile” and the common misconception that farmers are not “wired” like the rest of the world. Jeff is the Multimedia Editor for Agriculture.com, the website for Successful Farming magazine. During his panel session, Jeff hopes to shed some […]
Visitors from DC share their observations of SXSWi. Anna Tauzin is an alum of TX State and of the sxtxstate.com project. She got a master’s degree from American University after leaving TX State. Anna is the Web and Social Media editor at J-Lab. Sean Connolly is a current grad student in broadcast journalism at American.
Lee Brenner, of digital design firm thirteen23, prefaces his main points of a talk about borrowing cinematic techniques when designing software from my favorite director: “It’s not where you take things from, it’s where you take them.” -Jean Luc Godard How appropriate it is to begin this discussion with a quote from a director who […]
Many feel video games will never be as emotionally engaging as movies. But, Peter Molyneux, the creative force behind the Fable series and the seminal god game Populous, thinks much differently. In a conversation with Frank Rose of Wired, Molyneux discussed the potential and future of video games. Molyneux also talked about Fable III and […]
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 […]