By Caitlin Moore In a panel conversation called Is The Brain The Ultimate Computer Interface?, contributing editor for Scientific American and freelance science writer Christie Nicholson will address trends that sound outlandishly futuristic but actually aren’t far from becoming a reality. Accepted in the first round of selections for SXSW 2010, this panel will tackle […]
By Trey Hatt It’s a nightmare scenario: a young entrepreneur or artist sets up a Web site to distribute the product of her years of hard work in the arts scene, only to find out she doesn’t have the rights to that work. Attorney Robert Strent, a partner at Grubman, Indursky & Shire, PC will […]
By Sang Hee Park Tiffani Jones owns Second and Park, a web writing business, and will be hosting a SXSW panel, titled “Writing Web Content For A Living.” She focuses on copywriting and content strategy. Before starting Second and Park, Tiffani was a community/marketing specialist and project manager at Blue Flavor, and attended graduate school […]
By Mark Mederson The digital divide is not simply about the “haves” verus the “have nots,” or, those who own a computer versus those who don’t. According to Jessamyn West, the organizer of the panel, How The Other Half Lives – Touring The Digital Divide, it’s not merely about access to the technology, it has […]
By Josh Shepherd Molly Crabapple (Jennifer Caban) is heading up a fantastic SXSW panel idea titled “Selling Subculture Without Selling Out.” The basic idea is that the “panel will teach marketers how to work with subcultural tastemakers and the indie kids will learn how to make money without selling out.” An underground artist and entrepreneur, […]
By Dale Blasingame A lot of people have web sites these days. A lot of people, including businesses, have web sites where no one interacts or feels the need to come back. That’s where Stephen Anderson comes in. Anderson, a web design consultant, has created a panel called The Art and Science of Seductive Interactions […]
by Carly Smith Austin Kleon is a writer who draws, or at least that’s how he describes himself. According to Kleon, he is “a visual thinker who is obsessed with the art of communicating with pictures and words, together.” After drawing notes and presentations at SXSWi 2009, Austin, along with Sunni Brown, Mike Rohde and […]