Category Archives: sxswi2008

Why are we podcasting instead of using text?

Tom Scotney just put up an interesting blog post questioning the usefulness of the video and audio that we’ve been putting online.
We’re in the airport and thought that the appropriate way to respond would be to record a short discussion about why we’re using this stuff at SXSWi.

 
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By stef | Posted March 12, 2008 in SXSW, sxsw2008, sxswi, sxswi2008, sxswm | Comments (4)

Fray Cafe

Baratunde R Thurston, Web Editor of The Onion

Ewan Spence

Outside the venue.

The guy who invented the term ‘blogosphere’ apparently.

 
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By stef | Posted March 10, 2008 in SXSW, storytelling, sxsw2008, sxswi, sxswi2008, sxswm | Comments (2)

A great conversation with Shawn Morton from Profilactic

I’m not alone in thinking that Profilactic could be one of the big stories of 2008 -  a service that lets you aggregate and manage all of the various feeds of information that you publish as a person and have them pulled together into a ‘lifestream’.
Here we talk about the idea behind the service and [...]

 
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By stef | Posted March 10, 2008 in SXSW, sxsw2008, sxswi, sxswi2008, sxswm | Comments (2)

Dorking at Dorkbot

We went to the fantastic Dorkbot party and met up with the organisers. Something to bring to the UK?

Pete loved the robots. I loved the interactive visual feedback loop Eric Archer had made. It was good:

This image is entirely produced without digital graphics input. It’s a camera feeding back on itself connected to a modified [...]

 
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By stef | Posted March 9, 2008 in SXSW, sxsw2008, sxswi, sxswi2008, sxswm | Comments (1)

Day 1 - our summary - “it’s all about conversations”

In a brief respite from the geekery, a few of us from SXSWM got together for a chat to summarise our first day.

 
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By stef | Posted March 9, 2008 in sxsw2008, sxswi, sxswi2008, sxswm | Comments (0)