Today at SXSW 2010, Scott Thomas interviewed Burnie Burns, creator of Red vs. Blue, and founder of Rooster Teeth Productions. We caught him in his Austin office this afternoon and talked about his newest projects, machinima, gaming, and the interactive gaming industry.
Drupal founder Dries Buytaert laid out his case for Drupal being the CMS for the future at SXSWi panel on Monday. Drupal is a free, open source Content Management System that allows for open development from anywhere. At its most basic, Drupal is akin to something like WordPress, which allows for easy publication without FTP […]
Web writing specialists Erin Anderson (Brain Traffic), Tiffani Jones (thingsthatarebrown LLC), Ian Alexander (Eat Media), and Dan Maccarone (Four Square) presented tips, ideas, and guidelines for web-optimized writing in their interactive panel, “Writing Web Content for a Living.” The panelists began by defining web writing as follows: Ian Alexander: Web writing is more than just […]
Our team prepares on early Sunday morning. This Sunday morning was particularly early, considering the time change… we lost an hour. We check in with Dr. Cindy Royal, our professor, and with our technology to make sure everything is charged, connected, and ready to capture, blog, post, tweet, stream, etc. Aside from the panels, […]
Brynn Evans, Max Ventilla, Marc Vermut, Scott Prindle and Ash Rust participated in the panel, “Social Search: A Little Help from My Friends.” The session started off with each panelists giving a little background information about their particular area of expertise in social searching. The panelists threw out phrases such as ‘gathering trends from a […]
The panel, organized by Nova Spivack of Radar Networks, has differing views on the definition of semantics including whether the term should be eliminated all together. Search and algorithms were a big portion of the discussion and each expressed concerns over the lack of a reliable return rate. Many searches take place on the web […]
How does one go about writing on a panel entitled “Blah Blah Blah: Why Words Don’t Work”? Well, to apply recently learned knowledge, let me draw a picture of my problem: Dan Roam, of Back of the Napkin fame, discussed how verbal thinking has limited our problem solving skills for the past couple of centuries. […]