Color me a slacker. There are a million SxSW wrap-up posts that will get archived way ahead of mine. I figure I should document this somehow.
What did I learn at SxSW Interactive? Although I saw some interesting speeches, particularly from Frank Warren and Charlene Li, what struck me most was being able […]

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So I cried in front of a thousand people at Frank Warren’s keynote at SxSW. I hate crying in public but inevitably do it. I was feeling the love in the room and felt I could make something happen at that time.  My sister is very ill and it just doesn’t feel […]

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I want to plan to see nothing but the best SxSW Interactive speeches available since I am taking time off for it. Unfortunately, the SxSW scheduling page only allows me to see the topic of a speech by a particular time period. I cannot see what speaker is speaking at what time, so […]

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OK, so its not like Tim Westergren and the crew at Pandora covered for me when I was late or came up with a TPS cover sheet when I forgot one. I use Pandora everyday at work. It is the best internet radio station I’ve found. When I was on the brink of quitting my […]

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SxSW is featuring Mark Zuckerberg as a keynote speaker. Whenever the subject of Facebook and Zuckerberg in particular comes up in everyday geek conversation, the words “punk” and “lucky” tend to come up quite a bit.

Perhaps I have a different perspective, because:
a.) I have never coded anything, so there’s not much for me to […]

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Ed Schipul is the CEO and president of Schipul–The Web Marketing Company. Ed will be discussing how to take your non-profit to 11 in his SXSW speech “Pimping My Non-Profit–Real Non-Profits Kicking Ass with Online Technology.”

MICHELLE:
Your SxSW Interactive Speech is called, “Pimp My Non Profit — Real Non-Profits Kicking Ass with Online Technology.” […]

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Design is taking a new direction as websites become less like entertainment and news and more like applications for people to use. At the forefront of this shift is Microsoft’s User Experience Evangelist Chris Bernard, who is speaking this year at South by Southwest Interactive. You can find Chris at the finals of Microsoft’s Phizzpop […]

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The SxSW Interactive Festival is full of interesting speakers from throughout the technology spectrum. SxSW fans like you can choose who you want to hear from using a Panel Picker. Fortunately for me, I was able to speak to the man behind the picker himself, Lindsey Simon.

MICHELLE:
So I hear you work for some […]

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