Nan Palmero is referred to as the head nerd of San Antonio. He’s at SXSWi 2010 to cover the event for the San Antonio Express-News’ web site. I asked him about his thoughts so far, beating the CEO of 4square at 4square and how he and his friends are asking weird questions to internet celebrities.
I had the pleasure of running into USA Today tech writer Jon Swartz at SXSWi. I asked him for his thoughts on the conference and the battle between old media and new media.
Science journalist Christie Nicholson discussed the intricacies and implications of recent neurological research that has shown promise in connecting mental activity to physical output – without the regular neural pathways. This type of research gives hope to those suffering from physical disabilities (multiple sclerosis and paralysis patients, for example), but it also enables technological advances […]
Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, authors of “Trust Agents,” doled out some of their irreverent wisdom on social media during their panel “I Don’t Trust You One Single Bit.” “You can’t offer anyone any amount of money to make them your friend,” Smith said. The same idea applies in social media. Everyone is out there, […]
A nonprofit’s business model usually focuses on grants and personal donations. But what happens when the giving starts to wane, and you’re running out of resources? In their less-than-traditional panel, Technology For Results, Not Profits, “Digerati Pastor” Terry Storch and Head Pastor Bobby Grunewald of LifeChurch.tv opened discussion on ways nonprofits can maintain and even grow […]
“Tenure is broken and it’s holding universities back,” said the panelists at “Universities in the Free Era. Glenn Platt from the Miami University Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies and Peg Faimon from Miami University Design Collaborative talked about why they see the traditional university structure collapsing. Platt said tenure holds universities back the most. When he […]
Two up-and-coming media professionals discussed ways to pay for quality journalism–and neither mentioned display ads or classifieds. David Cohn, a former writer for Wired, launched spot.us a year ago on a Knight Foundation grant. He and a small staff review “pitches” for news and feature stories in the Los Angeles and San Francisco By areas. […]