SXSW is not for cowards. You must do your homework before you go or you will wander around the halls of the Austin Convention Center and have little to show for it. Two talks I attended on Saturday at SXSW 2013 continued the theme of trying to make sense of all that has happened these […]
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SXSW – Digital’s Dark Side
March 14, 2013 
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UPDATE March 30, 2013 Video embedded below On day two I entered a Hilton meeting room to listen to John Hagel‘s talk, Moving Story to Narrative. Mr. Hagel is Co-Chairman of Deloitte’s Center for the Edge, a practice that helps senior executives and brands better understand and benefit from emerging opportunities and new technologies. His distinguished career […]
Continue readingSXSW – Storytelling
March 12, 2013 4 Comments
Austin welcomed the 20th SXSW Interactive event. That’s right twenty years. Despite the fact that digital moves at the speed of light, it has a way of creeping up on us. We’ve become so comfortable with it permeating nearly every corner of our lives we hardly notice when it does. And so there I was […]
Continue readingSxSW Interactive Festival 2010
March 21, 2010 0 Comments
It’s been a week since I returned from SxSW. Just about the right amount of time for my thoughts on the experience to gel. This was my first SxSW festival and so I don’t have any other personal data points, but I’m a veteran of conferences, seminars, forums, you name it, for more years than […]
Continue readingMobile = Shift For Designers and Consumers
March 18, 2010 0 Comments
Humans have always been obsessed with what they need to “take along” whether it’s going to work or play. The advances of mobile phones and apps has led many of us to shift activities we once did exclusively on a desktop/laptop to our smartphone. This is naturally followed by an increase in the number of […]
Continue readingSxSW 2010 Kicks-off
March 12, 2010 0 Comments
Just arrived at South by Southwest 2010 in Austin. An amazing collection of people from all over the world. Right now I was sitting at a table with a special effects producer that did the visual design for the feature film Book of Eli. He lives in Los Angeles. Across from him is a gentleman […]
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