Posted By:  bucchere Posted On:  Sep 4, 2008	SXSW to Use The Social Collective for SXSW 2009!
I am very pleased to announce that today bdg and SXSW have decided to partner to use The Social Collective to create a new registrant community for SXSW 2009. More details will follow soon. But for...... [view]

Posted By:  bucchere Posted On:  Sep 3, 2008	Sneak Preview of Chris Bucchere's SXSW RSS Preso at the Oracle Open World Unconference
For anyone attending Oracle Open World, I'm planning to give a preview of my SXSW 2009 talk entitled "Not So Simple Any More: RSS's Bleeding Edge" in the unconference track at OOW. (This will happen...... [view]

Posted By:  bucchere Posted On:  Aug 19, 2008	Shameless Self-Promotion
At last year's SXSW I said to myself: "Self, you need to be speaking at this conference next year." Help me fulfill my self-fulfilling prophecy and please take a minute to vote for one (or both) of...... [view]

Posted By:  emilyjk Posted On:  Apr 7, 2008	Textbooks of the Future
-publishing industry becoming unbundled from old fashioned vertical integration and will be replaced by companies that just do one element of the business -Budapest Open Access Declaration – scholarly articles (in medicine, science, and engineering) should be open licensed and available for...... [view]

Posted By:  emilyjk Posted On:  Apr 7, 2008	Internationalization/Localization
Knowing that having a site as multilingual as TIG is unusual, it was cool to happen upon a panel at SXSW about website internationalization and localization. While the moderator had a few annoying moments (mostly making a big deal about how many in the audience raised their hands to the question...... [view]

Posted By:  ubershibs Posted On:  Apr 1, 2008	Dreaming of politics
Learning through dreams I’m a fan of Sheila Heti , a Toronto-based author. Her book, The Middle Stories , is one of the most amazing books I’ve ever read. It’s more a piece of art than a book. Literary art. And I think of her current project(s) as something very similar. ...... [view]

Posted By:  emilyjk Posted On:  Mar 25, 2008	Jason Fried of 37signals talks productivity at SXSW
Jason Fried is the founder of 37signals.com – an innovative technology company that has made some simple and awesome web-based productivity apps, like basecamp and campfire . He gave an amazing talk about productivity and collaboration ("Stuff we've learned") – this is a list of advice...... [view]

Posted By:  emilyjk Posted On:  Mar 25, 2008	Johnson/Jenkins SXSW Keynote
I'm finally getting my notes from SXSW posted. I took a lot of them, and came home and promptly got really sick. But they will all appear here in good time. The opening keynote on Saturday was a conversation between Steven Johnson (author of Everything Bad is Good for You ) and...... [view]

Posted By:  ubershibs Posted On:  Mar 24, 2008	Jane McGonigal is pervasive
At a bit late: sxsw was awesome. Jane McGonigal gave a great keynote about the future of happiness and her work in alternate reality games (see the graphic representation .) She mentioned four characteristics of happy-making experiences: Having satisfying work to do The experience of being...... [view]

Posted By:  bucchere Posted On:  Feb 10, 2008	Feedhaus Selected as a SXSW Web Award Finalist
We're very pleased to announce that Feedhaus has been selected as a finalist for a prestigious SXSW (South by Southwest) 2008 Web Award! We've been selected, along with four other great nominees,...... [view]

Posted By:  katerg Posted On:  Apr 26, 2007	feminism still has work to do
i just got the audience feedback from the panel i was on at sxsw . overall, most of the comments were pretty good. but my jaw dropped when i saw this...two people asked why the panel was all women. another said "don't invite these soccer moms* again." wow. somehow i don't think the...... [view]