Archive for the ‘SXSW’ Category
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
PaidContent.org has a great wrap up of the conference. Not exactly a what's-hot, what's-not wrap. More over an overview of what to expect if you show your face.With just a little extrapolation, it's also a primer for what news outlets should be thinking about in terms of their technologies.
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
If you're not familiar with Twitter, this post a Global Neighbourhoods is one of the best explanations for how the technology can be used.I'm always blown away by good writing, particularly insights into where technology can go. It's not as easy as it looks when it's done well.
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
I'm doing an abridged version of the SXSW Music and Media conference this year, which frankly bums me out. While this isn't as important (to me) as the Interactive Conference, it's always very enlightening for two reasons: entertainment commerce for mass consumption online signals new ways that people interact with ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Jane McGonigal is one of the pre-eminent alternative reality game (ARG) designers. She was the lead designer on i love bees, the first popular ARG which was the marketing tool that helped launch Halo 2.
She is a Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future, where she studies the science ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Here's my server-crashing account of what happens when the technology comes to public interviews. It's a really good example of what happens when journalists aren't aware of the Read/Write discussion going on.
A brief history. Journalist Sarah Lacy interviewed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW. The crowd (me included) became upset ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
This panel will look at the closing gap between gossip and news as inspired by the social media, where information shoots around the Internet at the speed of Twitter. This should be interesting, as I have one friend on the panel (Heather Gold), Twitter founder Evan Williams and Valleywag managing ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
After the disaster that was the Zuckerberg keynote (note to journalists: do not come unprepared, do not flirt shamelessly with the subject, do not try to help them answer questions and do not open yell at the audience that you job is hard), we've moved on to interactions in the ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Sunday's keynote address by Mark Zuckerberg kicks off in about 30 minutes. I'll be live-blogging the talk as I did yesterday with Henry Jenkins.
Zuckerberg founded Facebook, along with three other computer science students at Harvard, in February 2004. The service was rolled out from university to university during its initial ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Here is one of the presenters for this panel, which right now isn't shaping up to be very exciting. Michael Lopp is a Senior Engineering Manager at Apple.
Right now, we're going through the different words that are within the word design. It's not a very well prepared opening, that ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The first time I met Henry Jenkins, he told me that when he started working in Comparative Media Studies his colleagues looked down upon him. He was the first person who labeled what we did as "the cultural gutter."
It's great to see him opening the SXSW Interactive Conference, filling ballroom ...
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