Due to a few things, (mainly my lack of organisation), my SXSW experience did not start well. In fact, it started with a 5 hour delay to the flight, stuck on the tarmac at Heathrow as the American Airlines plane got a valve fixed. The staff did their best, we got snacks, drinks, but we […]
SXSW – Christopher Poole
founder of 4chan. founded in 2003 as an image sharing community, for Japanese comics.cartoons/anime. A chatroom with 20. Now 12m visitors monthly. no registration. no archive. ideas – it’s about survival of the fittest. what resonates, stays on the board. Community flows over a day; the culture changes. to start a topic you need to […]
Opening up TED, June Cohen, SXSW
Started releasing talks in 2006. as talks grown online, the audience has gone fromn 1000 people in a room to 100m around the world it changed the organisation, from conference for an elite audience to thinking about how to serve the global community. So everything rallied around the notion of ideas worth spreading. A complete […]
SXSW: Andrea Phillips ARGS and the hot Brunette
LIVEBLOGGED: taken during talk, so any mistakes are mine. Andrea Phillips ARGS and Women A freelance game designer and writer, involved since they started. Also Chair if IGDA SIG ARG argology.org One of community moderators of Cloudmakers, one of the key moments in ARGS, when we recognised that something had happened. One of the ingredients […]
SXSW: Chris Messina and Actvity Streams
LIVEBLOGGED – so pretty much as said Google Data Liberation – most excited to be part of this team Ingeneral, interested in generative systems and structures, rhizomatic structures, built into the fabric of how they work. Start spill with constructs that grow into the systems. Thats how it all started, hashtags etc. As in The […]
SXSW – Behind the scenes with Mad Men on Twitter
How did characters from a show based in the analog 1960s fast forward to become a sensation on Twitter? Tweeters behind the profiles of Peggy Olson, Betty Draper and Roger Sterling discuss how it happened, why it happened and–most importantly– what does it mean for the future of entertainment branding? Helen Klein Ross Partner, Supporting […]
SXSW – Bringing TV to the Web
This is an advanced session from Six to Start and Roo Reynolds and Jo Twist from the BBC – learn how broadcasters and new media companies work in bringing about the intersection of broadcast television and online both now and in the future. Claire Bateman Jr Games Designer, Six to StartAdrian Hon Chief Creative, Six […]
SXSW – What can we learn from games
Experts from three different (bit connected) industries talk about game design, learning theories, collective intelligence, transmedia entertainment, and the value of play in a participatory culture. Henry Jenkins Co-Dir CMS, MIT James Gee Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Arizona State University Warren Spector GM Creative Dir, Junction Point – Disney Interactive Studios […]
SXSW – Dead Space a Deep Media Case Study
This in-depth case-study reveals the method and the madness behind Electronic Arts use of cross platform marketing to communicate separate, self-contained elements of the much anticipated release of their first survival horror game, Dead Space. For this release, EA packaged a comic book, a prequel DVD, and an online experience in order to build, create, […]
SXSW – report of the first day
Arriving in the US, I’d ticked ‘pleasure’ on the Customs’ form, the TSA immigration officer decided that was not the correct designation and insisted that I was here on business. Given I work in digital marketing and the SXSWi is about interactive stuff I can see how he can get idea, but for me, this […]
SXSW – Zoe Margolis – Blogging How not to get Fucked
While bloggers have a lot more power than ever before, there are still plenty of risk involved with personal publishing. Talk about the best ways to survive this tangled maze. Zoe Margolis Blogger/Author, Girl With a One-Track Mind (this was a conversation, so names not used. each line is a different person commenting in the […]
SXSW – Tony Hsieh and Zappos
At Zappos.com, Tony Hsieh has fostered a culture where extraordinary customer service is the norm. On Saturday, March 14, hear him talk about how good deeds can help you leverage the power of your audience to massively extend your brand. As a preview, you can read this story for a glimpse of a company that […]
SXSW – Is Privacy Dead
While many assert that "privacy is dead," the complex ways in which people try to control access and visibility suggest that it’s just very confused. Rather than throwing the baby out with the bath water, let’s discuss people’s understanding and experiences of privacy and find ways to 2.0-ify it. danah boyd Researcher, Microsoft ResearchJudith Donath […]
Jane McGonigal Keynote at SXSW
Jane McGonigal Keynote. The Lost Ring Video played. A call for help. Being going a week – are you in? going to talk yo you about alternate realities. instead of trying to make games more realistic, trying to make the real world more like games. we need more alt. realities and the real world needs […]
Self-replicating Awesomeness at SXSW
Deborah Schultz, Chris Heuer, Jeremiah Owyang, Tara Hunt, Hugh MacLeod, David Parmet  DP: Brian Oberkirch put this together – he asked 2 questions. How to market into community without being too marketer like. And how do you build a community around what you are doing? What does ‘no marketing’ look like? How can we use […]
Sexual Privacy Online – SXSW
discussing the aspects of Sexual Privacy online.  Violet Blue, Jonathan Moore, John d’Alderio, Zoe Margulis, Jason Schultz VB: fetishes…online allows you to seek this even if you did not seek in real life, but could cause issues. online can be a healthy way to let people express their fetish. Sexuality and sexuality online calls into […]
Charlene Li and Revolutionaries at SXSW
Charlene Li about the changing of corporations and social media. Examples of the change: the HD DVD key and Digg. Jericho and the peanuts. Shaun Daly was a fan of Jericho drove the change – you had to have something physical that CBS could not ignore. They bought it back, and it’s doing OK. CBS […]
SXSW – ARGS and Games
Dan Hon, Tony Walsh and Dee Cook Tony Walsh, Phantom Compass, Toronto, Games design. Fallen, Regenesis. Dee Cook, working on ARGs, since 2003. Worked on World without Oil Dan Hon, Six to Start. worked on Perplex City, working with Channel 4 education DH: ARGS are a new way of telling stories, using all forms. People […]
Steven Johnson and Henry Jenkins
Keynote at SXSW Saturday. Notes, not a true live blog. Henry Jenkins and Steven Johnson SJ: have you seen another wave of the backlash, the dumbing down? HJ: these things do come in waves and we’re probably overdue. Never underestimate the desire of parents to see their children as dumb, it’s easy to imagine our […]
Tony on Ads
I asked Tony what his favourites were – World of Warcraft. Click To Play