The key theme from the SXSWi Panel “How to Make a Living as a Blogger?” It’s not easy. Panelists Brian Fairbanks and Colleen Kane discussed the challenges a potential professional blogger faces. Some of the highlights: Some of the silliest topics get the most hits. This is something a blogger has to balance. Do you really […]
Mark Cuban, owner of Dallas Mavericks and general rich guy, and Avner Ronen of Boxee duked it out on this panel about Pay TV vs. the Internet. The conversation started out contentious and stayed that way throughout, even with a break for a fire alarm (luckily it was false). Cuban’s position was that the Internet […]
In the past two years crowdsourcing has often popped up as a Web 2.0 buzz word, but there are a few important questions that few have asked since the discussion on the phenomenon started: what exactly entails crowdsourcing and is it sustainable? That’s exactly what Scott Belsky, of behence, and Jeffrey Kalmikoff, of Digg and […]
Scott Rosenberg wrote the book on blogging, literally. One of the founders of salon.com, Rosenberg recently finished a book called “Say Everything – How Blogging Began, What it is Becoming & Why it Matters.” Rosenberg spoke as part of the panel on “Why Keep Blogging? Real Answers for Smart Tweeple” at SXSWi. Rosenberg has three […]
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 […]
The Tweet House, produced by The Parnassus Group and Chevrolet, was an additional series of panels and events held at Mellow Johnny’s bike shop on Nueces, a few blocks from the main action at the convention center. I dropped by for the afternoon panel with Jim Louderback – CEO of Revision 3, Dom Sagolla – […]
Samantha Toy’s 2:00 panel “Get Stoked about Web Typography” was the second part of three panels today focused on web design, and while this is the only one I attended, it was chalk-full of ideas, inspiration, and outside-the-box thinking about one of the most exciting parts of a web designer’s job: fonts! Starting off with […]