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What I brought home from SXSW

I just returned from an amazing 5 days in sunny Austin, TX. This was my 3rd year at SxSWi and it was as jam packed, exhausting, and energizing as any I’ve been to in the past! I decided not to do the panel-hopping thing this year and instead spend quality time with people I rarely [...]

#1UP: Games for Change

It’s exciting that South by Southwest is just around the corner! When I submitted my panel proposal back in, what, June? July?…I had an inkling that games would be an interesting topic, and I was particularly interested in social change. Hence a panel proposal which is now called: 1UP! Games for Change. (hashtag will be [...]

It takes two to tango: review of my social search panel

My first-ever panel at SxSW went pretty well! The point was to cover the basics of social search: what it is, what it isn’t, who’s working on it and getting it right, etc. The panel consisted of: me Max Ventilla (Aardvark) Ash Rust (OneRiot) Scott Prindle (Crispin Porter) Marc Vermut (fabulous moderator!) It was in [...]

Digital anthropology panel at SXSW’10

I’m involved in another panel proposal at SXSW’10. As before, we need your votes! This panel is called: Practical Digital Anthropology: Getting to Know Your Users. The panel description and list of questions that we’ll cover is below: Most modern analytics attempt to boil complex behaviors down to statistics; but is that the whole story? [...]

Social search panel at SXSW’10

Sanjay Kairam and I submitted a beginner’s panel proposal on social search to SXSW’10. But in order to present the panel, we need to get a lot of community votes! Even if you’re not going to SXSW next year, you can vote and your vote will count! Click here to vote! A short description of [...]