Well, it’s that time again — time that all the web-nerds penciled in our calendars months ago: The SXSW Panel Picker is open for voting! If you’ve never been to the all-things-web-digital-music-and-film that is SXSW in Austin each March, I’m not sure where to begin. Last year I remember hearing that there were more than [...]
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SXSW Wrapup: Reflections on the Chaos
March 16, 2011 – 10:27 am
Now you’re starting to see the South by Southwest wrapup posts appear, and I’ve already seen one post slamming the festival for becoming too big [It's a real rant on the NY Observer if you want to Google it, but not worth the link in my opinion] and one defending the new SXSW status quo. [...]
SXSW: Dawn Foster on Hacking RSS
March 15, 2011 – 9:14 am
So I’m at Hacking RSS by Dawn Foster. She’s got some more stats about how much data we have in the world. Seems to be a big topic this year here at SXSW. [Incidentally she's got some stats on her slides if you'd like to look. I didn't scribble down the numbers.] We’re talking about [...]
SXSW: Gary Vaynerchuk and The Thank You Economy
March 14, 2011 – 3:24 pm
I will tell you straight out that I have a fan-girl crush on Gary Vaynerchuk. I find his enthusiasm infectious, and I agree with his perspective on a lot of things. Particularly on the value of hard work and on how you treat customers. I don’t know where you live, but everyone doesn’t value those [...]
SXSW: Tim Wu on Net Neutrality
March 14, 2011 – 12:20 pm
Tim Wu is talking net neutrality. First has been laying the groundwork….talking about the 2010 legislation that provides for net neutrality. Now is going back to the 15th century England to make a point about how net neutrality should be considered public infrastructure and therefore should always be publicly available. [Chinese government built the wall, [...]
SXSW: Margot Bloomstein on Creation, Curation and the Ethics of Content Strategy
March 14, 2011 – 10:54 am
I’m starting this morning with a session from Margot Bloomstein on content strategy, curation and ethics. I’ve heard her speak before [on a different topic] and she was interesting, so we’ll see how this goes. OK, right off the bat, this is a hard talk to blog. It’s a very good talk, but hard to [...]
South by Southwest: What I’m up to
March 14, 2011 – 10:05 am
I got to South by Southwest yesterday and I had to hit the floor running — the conference started Friday so there were sessions flying by me. I got to a couple of great talks yesterday and blogged them here. Today, I’m going to three sessions for sure: Margot Bloomstein talking about content, curation and [...]
SXSW: Todd Park from HHS on the Power of Open Health Data
March 13, 2011 – 3:32 pm
Interesting…Todd Park introduces himself as the CTO and “entrepreneur in residence” at the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. I think his point is that his background is tech entrepreneurship. He says, “That may lead you to ask what the hell I’m doing working for the federal government.” My notes below are paraphrases [my [...]
Where I’m going in 2011
January 4, 2011 – 9:48 pm
I’ve spent a lot of time in the last few months learning about additional conferences in my field — seminars related to content strategy, information architecture and management, and related fields like web entrepreneurship, user experience and social media. In 2011, I’m definitely attending SXSW Interactive and GEL. SXSWi is not really an optional conference [...]
RIP Content Management
March 15, 2010 – 10:44 am
Session with Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal. Going to be a good counterpoint to the last session, it seems. Couple of problems all businesses face: Webmasters don’t scale. Your proprietary CMS is slow to innovate. Your users are your content creators. Trying to control content is daunting. Choosing a closed-source vendor is risky, depending on [...]