By Sang Hee Park John Halcyon Styn will lead a SXSW panel: Casting Crib Cutesploitation – Using Your Kids as Content. He owns Royal Pink Productions, a consulting company that specializes in online video ad social media. Royal Pink Productions helps craft digital landscapes of people’s websites with integrity and authenticity. In other words, they […]
By Robert Hill Andrew Huff’s panel for SXSW 2010 is called “The Online News of Tomorrow.” Such a title can conjure up several topics and can have a discussion that would lead into various directions. Mr. Huff is the editor and publisher of Gapers Block, a city-centric web publication based in Chicago. He is also […]
By Gio Metcalf Chris Heathcote of meta loca design consulting, will be making his first apperance at SXSW this year. Coming all the way from London England, Chris says he is tremendously excited to be in Austin for the first time and to be presenting at the conference. His panel will be discussing the latest […]
By Caitlin Moore When Larry Smith and Tim Barkow started SMITH Magazine in 2006, their intention was to create a place where personal narrative could flourish and be shared online. This initial idea led to several successful developments, including the Six-Word Memoir story project. Here, anyone and everyone is encouraged to express themselves in the […]
By Carly Smith Eric Kogelschatz first learned about neuromarketing while attending graduate school at Michigan State University. After reading the NYTimes article “There’s a Sucker Born in Every Medial Prefrontal Cortex” and watching the PBS program “Frontline: The Persuaders” Kogelschatz’s ideas about advertising changed. “From my perspective, the institution of advertising is defined as the […]
By Josh Shepherd Public Enemy first instructed us all….”Don’t believe the hype!” That’s a hard thing to do in these times. When everything around us is about hype, how does one distinguish between the trends? There are subtle signs of growth and decline in anything. Learning how to catch all those signs may determine the […]
By Bonnye Hart Do you want to retrofit your oven to bake pizza’s at 900 degrees? Would you trick out your Brita filter for better vodka? Do the words methylcellulose, maltodextrin, or meat glue make you giddy? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may have a new hobby called food hacking. […]