Whether you’re a Southby veteran or a nerd newbie, you’ll definitely want to know how to make the most of SXSW Interactive this year. And while we’ve had some preliminary posts on our own advice, it’s always good to ask some people who could probably write an entire book on it. In the panel How […]
Douglas Rushkoff, host of the documentaries The Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders and most recently Digital Nation, gave a thought-provoking talk titled Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age. Rushkoff’s main point was that it is important to be able to contend with the biases of digital media, to be able to […]
SXSWi is holding its 13th Annual SXSW Web Awards on Sunday the 14th at the Hilton Downtown. All the website finalists were sites that were launched or redesigned in 2009. Here’s a list of finalists! The M.C. of this year’s award ceremony is comedian Doug Benson. From his many appearances on Comedy Central Presents, NBC’s […]
Attention all SXSW attendees, let the QR coding begin. At least, that’s what this year’s organizers are hoping for. QR Codes are fairly new to the U.S. and until recently were primarily used by Google’s Android mobile operating system. QR Code is short for Quick Response and is a type of barcode that can include […]
One of the wonderful things about the web is that you can create and join communities of people that are just like you. However if you want the type of content that keeps people coming back for more, you have to know a lot about your audience. We spoke to Trish Bendix of MTV/AfterEllen.com about […]
A band of self-professed computer geeks from New Orleans rented a bus and stormed South By Southwest last year to show the world that the Big Easy is back. That trip is the inspiration for a panel at this year’s SXSW Interactive called, “Uprising Tide: Inciting Online Communities into Offline Movements.” “It’s a bunch of […]
As you fill up your my.sxsw schedule with amazing panels and core conversations, don’t forget about the ever-entertaining SXSW Interactive Web Awards Ceremony Presented by Adobe. With comedian Doug Benson emceeing this year, it’s bound to be a night full of laughs and Web beauty as the best sites of the year are revealed. Although […]