SXSWi2008, Day 2: Opening Remarks

Henry Jenkins, Steven Johnson
Johnson interviewed Jenkins
Random stuff they said:

No single person should be asked to write for an encyclopedia
wikipedia’s model is much better, because it’s community-driven
Britannica’s model is one person sharing their knowledge - wikipedia’s model is many people sharing their knowledge
younger generation have learned to read and write because of Harry Potter - they [...]

SXSWi2008, Day 2: ExpressionEngine 2.0 Sneak Peek

Session by Ellis Lab, makers of ExpressionEngine, a CMS we’re using for our new Digital Branch.
Note to David - there’s an Ellis Labs party - t-shirts!
Goal - you should have control of the code and the design - design shouldn’t have to work around the CMS
They have paid support staff
They claim it’s becoming very popular [...]

SXSWi2008, Day 2: Quit Your Day Job and Vlog

Zadi Diaz, Bre Pettis, Lisa Donovan (Lisa Nova on YouTube), Lindesy Campbell
lots of people taking video of people in this session
People who have made videoblogging their day job - topic of panel
Telling their stories:
Lisa Donovan:

started a small production company
lots of corporate stuff
they wanted to be more creative in their down time
this was about 2 years [...]

SXSWi2008, Day One: Rock Star Lighting and Accordions

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Quick video of the How to Rawk SXSW, just to give you a flavor of the first session. The lighting was pretty cool, and they found an accordion player who plays popular tunes on his accordion. Here, he’s singing an AC/DC song - he also closed the session by sing [...]

SXSWi2008 Day 1

This is my first time attending SXSWi, in Austin TX. Wow - it’s a different conference! At the many library conferences I usually attend, I bump into a few people I’d term “creatives.” You know the ones - their hair points to the sky, it’s died green, and they wear stripey socks. Well… all of [...]

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