Whew! Grabbed my badge and my bag of goodies and managed to spot one Interactive celebrity – Heather Armstrong, who blogs at Dooce. Armstrong’s fame can be traced back to 2002 when she was fired from her job for things she’d blogged, igniting a firestorm of discussion about privacy. While I was aware of the […]
I just wanted to highlight this bit from the 15 Last-Minute Tips for SXSW Interactive: SXSW has produced a nifty video to orient you to the layout of activities for SXSW at the Austin Convention Center. Check it out! Fazia Rizvi
Sunday I began the process of decompressing from another SXSW. Just think, only six months until ACLFest. As I began to sift through the 1s and 0s I had collected during the course of SXSW, I realized the images ranged from Mark Cuban & that other guy to Moby.Here are but a few of the […]
As as avid gadget lover and tremendous fan of all things Long Tail; the panel I am most interested in is Hardware Mashups: Introducing the Long Tail of Gadgets. Peter Semmelhack Founder and CEO, of Bug Labs will be leading the panel. Bug Labs takes an open-source approach to hardware that allows those without a […]
The keynote address by Frank Warren on Monday should be interesting. Frank, yes, we are on a first-name basis (not really), is the founder and curator of around 200,000 postcards mailed anonymously from all corners of the world. He has put many of the cards into books that landed on the New York Times best-seller […]
What ever shall I do with my valuable SXSW time next week? So many panels to choose from, and, sheepishly, I don’t want to be alone for them all! Leaving some buffer time to visit panels with other “Southby” visiting classmates, here’s my tentative list: 10:00 a.m. – Scope Creep and Other Villains – Fun […]
This is ALL subject to change (hey, I’m a 21st Century woman, what can I say?) but so far, this is what I’m planning on attending at SXSW Interactive 2008: 10:00 am – 11:00 am: Quit Your Day Job and Vlog This is a panel discussion by those who have done just that: stopped working […]