Many of the posts over the past day since Steve Jobs announced his resignation from the position of CEO at Apple have been about what he meant to the computer industry and Silicon Valley, the way he innovated music and communications and his general contributions to the world. This post is about what Steve Jobs […]
How is it possible that it is that time again? The SXSW Panel Picker went live this week, and there are more than 3200 proposal for you to peruse, vote for and comment on. If you don’t have time to read them all, here are a few that I think are most interesting. First, the […]
I moderated a panel last night for the Social Media Club of Austin on Music and Social Media entitled “I’m with the Band.” There was an all-star lineup with a wide range of experiences that made for a lively discussion. Joining me were Jonathan Carroll of Gowalla, Daniel Senyard of Vivogig, Paul Osbon who manages […]
Well, just about everyone else has made their 2 cents known about how they feel about SXSW this year, so I thought I’d jump into the fray. This is my seventh SXSW Interactive. Since I started attending in 2005, it’s been this nice, fairly large tech conference, where big ideas were the main focus. I […]
It gives me great joy to see the cover of the April issue of Wired. Limor Fried, the electrical engineer who is active in the open source hardware movement, was chosen for the cover of their Maker issue – focusing on the Do It Yourself Revolution. This is the first time a female engineer has […]
This will be the fourth year that I have taken a group of students from TX State to SXSW, covering it on our blog SXTXState.com (and my 7th year attending). Each year, the most important thing I tell new people coming to the Interactive portion of the festival is to do some advanced prep, scout […]
I attended a fascinating presentation tonight. Bob Metcalfe, one of the pioneers of the Internet, inventor of Ethernet and the author of Metcalfe’s law, has just arrived on the UT campus in the new and charmingly titled position of Professor of Innovation in the Cockrell School of Engineering. He gave his first lecture on Enernet: […]
