Posts Tagged ‘SXSW’
SXSW 2011 Recap
March 21st, 2011, 2 comments
Even though the conference is literally falling apart under its own weight, I enjoyed the best SXSW Interactive last weekend of all six years I've been attending. Two keys to that: reducing FOMO (fear of missing out) and being the party with people I care about versus trying to make it to every party. Sure I missed a lot of fun stuff—like crowdsurfing at Diggnation, that looked crazy—but I decided to pass on things like standing in line for an iPad and spend as much quality time with my people as possible instead. For posterity and for my own reference next year, here's a recap.
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Where to Find Me at SXSW This Weekend
March 8th, 2011, 1 comment
I am getting old; this weekend will be the sixth year I head down to South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, TX for a weekend of events I'm really looking forward to—beyond buying an iPad 2, that is! If you'll be around, come find me. On Saturday at 5pm I'll be at Ginger Man drinking beer and hosting a ThinkUp community meetup. On Sunday I'll join Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis on stage at Momo's for a very special live TWiT episode, with several fabulous guests. On Monday morning at 11am, I'll be pitching my worst idea to a VC for funding at my co-worker Andy Baio's Worst Website Ever panel alongside frighteningly hilarious folks like Ze Frank, Jonah Peretti, and Jeffery Bennet. Hope to see you in Texas.
September 3rd, 2009, 5 comments
Voting for SXSW Interactive panel proposals closes end-of-day tomorrow, and your little green thumbs-up counts for 30% of a panel's chance of actually happening. Here's the panel I proposed, the one I'll be on (if it's voted through), and others I've voted for.
Post your picks for panels you've given the thumbs up in the comments, so we can help make the good stuff come to fruition in Austin this spring.
March 5th, 2009, 7 comments
The straight-faced definition of crowdsourcing is using the ability to communicate with thousands of people efficiently on the internet to get those people to do something for you. To me, "crowdsourcing" is also one of those annoying internet neologisms that's overinflated by "Web 2.0" marketing hype, so I qualify it with quotes. Even though I "crowdsource" information all the time, quality results require stringent editing, checking, and yes, curation. I'll be on a panel at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, TX called "Curating the Crowd-Sourced World" on March 13 to discuss just this.
As a part of their SXSW coverage, The Austin Chronicle quoted me as saying,
For a blogger, crowd-sourcing is just outsourcing your research. Without fact-checkers, why not?
Since the reporter asked for a definition to go in his "glossary with a sense of humor," I said that with tongue lodged firmly in cheek. The truth is that crowdsourcing research--and editing and even fact-checking(!) the results--is a serious subject with lots of issues. Because I felt like being cute, I crowdsourced what "crowdsourcing" means, by asking about 9,000 people on Twitter. My followers didn't disappoint; several nailed some of the thornier aspects of the issue in their 140-character responses.
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