Preview: Black Blogging Rockstars

By Roberta Flores What we know as the blogosphere is starting to change. Maurice Cherry of 3eighteen media might say it’s becoming bigger, better and blacker. While past panels at SXSW (like “Blogging While Black” and “Digital Urbanites”) have shown that Black bloggers and bloggers of color are becoming more prominent and well-known in the […]

By Robert Hill As a self proclaimed “message board veteran,” I felt Kate Miltner’s panel was not only interesting but actually in my wheelhouse. I am a big sports fan and as such I have been known to banter with the fanatics of opposing teams as well as my own from time to time. In […]

By Eric Morales Karen Rayne is a professor that teaches and explores a subject that might make most people blush. You guessed it: Dr. Rayne talks about sex. However, she doesn’t just talk about sex, she talks about talking about sex. In other words, Dr. Rayne tries to help people become comfortable talking about sex, […]

By TC Sprencel If the terms “Model View Controller” and “URL Mapping” are to you what “paper” and “plastic” are to the local grocery store bagger, then South by Southwest has a panel for you. If, on the other hand, “Content Management Systems” and “Caching” are as clear to you as the finer points of […]

By Yvonne Paris Rob Gonda of Sapient (a digital, advertising, interactivity and consulting firm) thinks that in the future, your refrigerator might be able to tweet that you’re running out of milk and butter. He aims to imagine the entire internet as a focus group in his SXSW panel “Real-time everything: the Era of Communication […]

By Gio Metcalf In a panel called “I Don’t Trust You One Stinking Bit,” Chris Brogan, president of New Marketing Labs will discuss the importance of what gives people confidence on the web and how his company can help any business create a company that users will love. Chris Brogan is a New York Times […]