SXSW Day 1: What Teens Want Online & On Their Phones
This panel was made up of actual teenagers, ranging in age from 12 to 17, with a grown-up moderator who did a great job of asking them questions about what they do online and on their phones. There was...
View ArticleSXSW Day 1: Keynote Speaker Henry Jenkins
The keynote was actually a conversation between Henry Jenkins (Convergence Culture, Fans Bloggers and Gamers) and Steven Johnson (Everything Bad Is Good for You), which is apparently how all keynotes...
View ArticleSXSW Day 1: Attracting Girls to IT
The panelists at this session all work for organizations or on projects that aim to attract girls to math, science, and technology and then retain them in math/science/tech professions once they become...
View ArticleSXSW Day 2: The Textbooks of the Future
The panelists talking about Textbooks of the Future represented a nice diversity of perspectives, though they’re all strongly in the Open Educational Resources camp. We had Melissa Hagemann from the...
View ArticleSXSW Day 2: Tools for Enchantment: 20 Ways to Woo Users
At the heart of Kathy Sierra’s entertaining and enlightening talk was the question “How do we help our users really kick ass?” Her focus, on web and software development, doesn’t directly apply to...
View ArticleSXSW Day 4: Thick as Thieves: When Your Fans Break the Law
This was supposed to be a panel about piracy, and how to handle it when fans stop paying for your stuff and start filesharing. Instead, the panelists talked a lot about copyright and fair use, and how...
View ArticleSXSW By the numbers
Here’s a quick round-up of how I spent the four days of my first SXSWi Sessions attended: 15 Parties attended: 3 Business cards collected: 16 (it seemed like more – I probably lost some) Moo cards...
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