“Craigslist” Craig Newmark, Poynter Kelly McBride on responsible journalism, at the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive 2013 in Austin Texas “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh – or they may kill you – Oscar Wilde. (Quoted by Craig Newmark at SxSW interactive 2013) New standards of journalism in a new… Read More It’s alive! (responsible journalism). But newspapers are history.
Jody Culkin, an artist who uses a variety of media, speaking at South by Southwest Interactive 2013 in Austin Texas. Lasersaurs, science geek comics, comic book how-to’s on lasers, creative uses of iPhone cameras, hacking, soldering, coloring books on electronics, rapid development of instructional manuals using photo-comics—Jody Culkin brought many graphic examples (pardon the art… Read More DIY comics artist Jody Culkin: Making and Drawing Comics in a Makers World
UT Physics professor Dr. Steven Weinberg at the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive Conference “We need to fund supercolliders – and that is why I am here (at SXSWi),” said Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. Steven Weinberg. And the South by Southwest Interactive audience applauded with enthusiasm. As much as SxSWi participants love the pursuit of space… Read More How I learned to love supercolliders more than space travel and telescopes
Dr. Kevin Nowka at the AT&T Center at the Austin Forum. Dr. Kevin Nowka is cute. He’s a little nervous to leave his laptop in the AT&T conference room just to go out for a photo shoot. But when he stands in front of those pretty red flowers and start smiling into the sun for… Read More IBM researcher Kevin Nowka talks about the big, big data
whurley (William Hurley), co-founder, Chaotic Moon; Kevin Leahy, founder, Knowledge Advocate, LLC; and Russell Poldrack, PhD, director of the Imaging Research Center, UT Austin, discuss brain-altering software and human evolution at the Austin Forum in the fall of 2013. “Our brains: the organ pipes of the infinite” — William James, “The Knowing of Things Together” Three concepts; past.… Read More Brain hacking with the smartest guys in the room
James McQuivey (VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research):Welcome to the new disruption. “Things started to speed up at the end…” — Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Analyst, futurist, and author of Digital Disruption, James McQuivey, gave an example of how product cycles are speeding up: Apple took two years to sell the first two million… Read More Welcome to your new job: powerful individuals, disposable companies, disrupt traditional economic predictors
The Hatsune Miku demo booth at South by Southwest Interactive 2013. #sxswmiku The creators of Hatsune Miku, the virtual singer software, discussed how the vast collaborative effort that is expressed via Miku blurs the perceived boundaries between audience and star at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival 2013 in Austin, Texas. Miku is singing synthesizer… Read More One virtual singer, unlimited creators. Hatsune Miku: The open source girl who conquered the world
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