Dan Rather is a star “Who’s giving $5 Billion to the US presidential campaign and what do they want for it?” – Dan Rather. “No one wins debates, except the networks. The U.S. presidential election will be nasty enough to gag a buzzard.” – Dan Rather. “What current journalism needs: context, background, perspective, tough questions.”… Read More South by Southwest: Dan Rather
Encryption Wars “We live in the Great Surveillance Society” – Amit Yoran. “Developers must take into account misuses of their technology” – Stewart Baker. “Britain: more cameras per capita, turning in computer mikes give grim meaning to Open Society.” – Amit Yoran. “Apple will ensure Iphone unhackable. In tech do we trust? Or are they… Read More South by Southwest 2016: Technology, Law, and Ethics
The South by Southwest Trade Show 2016 brought a variety of tech services together with demos, short presentations, and lots of freebies. Participants included Knowbility, demos of Hatsune Miku, NoMaps, New Trackers, NASA, VR demos, Dell Healthive, Gaping Void, UT Health, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), the U.S. Department of Transportation, Grindr, costumed vendors, and… Read More South by Southwest Trade Show 2016: robots, apps, future tools
Michael Lazerow wants you to be weird. Because weird is good. He’s in the right place: he’s at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, in a vortex chock full of smart chocolate chip weirdos rolled up in a big all of marketer and VC goo. But even burnt — and we are all pretty burnt… Read More Where there’s a weirdo, there’s a way: why weird wins over vanilla every time
Playing with your own big data: Ed Hunsinger at South by Southwest Interactive 2013. Ed Hunsinger: part man, part machine; does this equal…cyborg? Not quite. It’s all perfectly normal and you will see more and more 2000 Men and Women soon, tracking their bodies’ performances with data selfies, using such devices at FitBit,( http://www.fitbit.com/ ),… Read More Personal tracking with Ed Hunsinger: part big data, all man
Katie Covington presented on “For the Makers) at the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin Texas DIY API open-source For Makers. #futureDIY Katie Covington quit her job and started Open Source For The Makers (http://www.opensourcemakerlabs.com/ ) where makers gave designs away for free. She explained how those interested in developing the project figured… Read More Katie Covington: Making fun with Open Source for Makers
What John Biehler said when he saw Pre Pettis and MakerBot on The Daily Show How 3D Printing Changed John Biegher’s Life John Biehler bought a 3D printer as soon as he saw one demonstrated on The Daily Show. He’s been experimenting with it and extending what can be done with it ever since. Biehler… Read More Shut up and take my money: John Biehler and 3D printing
College dropout whiz kid Connor Zwick. Hardware is the new software. Presenter at the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin Texas. Hardware Kicks Software’s Butt at SxSW Interactive 2013 Conner Zwick has one word for you and the word is not plastic..it’s hardware. He dropped out of college, armed with the basic skills of… Read More Conner Zwick: sweating the small details for hardware innovations. Hardware Kicks Software’s Butt at SxSW Interactive 2013
“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
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
South by Southwest Interactive (SxSW) 2013, a five-day free flight of imagination and creativity, just ended in downtown Austin, Texas. Each year, creative minds gather to share dreams and nightmares about technological changes, inventions, and twists in the road that takes the rest of us to the future. Who was the most interesting wise guy… Read More Change is as good as a holiday
From the Deeplocal website. I thought I’d seen complex workflow charts working with engineering graduate students, but this kludge takes the prize. DEEPLOCAL Nathan Martin, owner of Deeplocal. Recode Recode.com was based on Priceline and was a punk trick. Copy subbar codes; change the bar code, and you can get your item at the price… Read More Deep thinking with Nathan Martin, of Recode, Deeplocal
There was a point in time when I understood this. Now it remains as a mysterious poem. Poem Note Crypton CEO Hiroyuki Itoh (l) visited with technology artist Kaoru Sugano (r) and a member of Itoh’s Crypton Future Media team (middle) representing Hatsune Miku at South by Southwest 2013. Somewhere, there is a picture but you… Read More Hacking and tracking fingers, automobiles, with Daito Manabe and Kaoru Sugano
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