On my way in, I saw some remediation in law enforcement: Almost like being at GenCon 😉 Okay, now I’m listening to Jenkins discuss how the culture of Blood Elves in WoW can lead back into the collaborative movement of interactive democracy he sees manifested in Obama’s campaign. It’s a wild, but insightful talk. I […]
There is an entertainment and gaming convention on the first floor. Participants and sights include a Magic the Gathering playing card setup, Dungeons and Dragons playing card setup, Guitar Hero III play station and a championship gaming series contest for serious gamers. There is even a guy dressed up in Halo gear to take pictures […]
There was so much of interest to me in the opening remarks with Henry Jenkins and Stephen Johnson that I couldn’t possibly speak to it all. It was both validation of things I’d pondered, back in the 1990’s and new questions and issues to think about. I’m looking forward to when this one is available […]
I decided to skip the keynote and check out the panel on Online Extremism. 2:13 pm- Mohamad Hluchan – Jihadists and Cybercrime: Emerging Synergies (That’s him there on the left.) iDefense is his company, and they focus on cyber-based intelligence. They have more than 30 full-time researchers and more than 400 contributors throughout the world. […]
Well that’s cute. Jeff Jarvis and his son. WOW identical. Myself and the Jarv-ster. At the first panel, a video blogger filming himself asking a question. A note on style at SXSW… Interactive isn’t the most glamorous or trendy place to be, style-wise. A lot of people dressed for comfort (I’m in jeans and chucks), […]
I couldn’t find the room for the panel about getting users to contribute content so I ducked into a panel about Geo cache games… which ended up being very interesting.  I had heard of the traditional GPS treasure hunt type thing, but these guys took it way beyond that by meshing GPS, new technologies, […]
I spoke with Lisa Donavan briefly Saturday morning… She was nice. From her Youtube content she got a gig with MadTV. These are some other guyz who also got picked up due to their own content. They are on SNL now. They also made a movie. Chris Troutman