San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom at the FirstMile conference in San Diego. (Photo by J.D. Lasica) Joaquin Alvarado, Director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet at San Francisco State University, invited Ourmedia to attend FirstMile, an important young conference at UC San Diego, so I flew down for the day. This was a high-powered […]
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81 photos of SXSW Interactive
Just finished uploading my Flickr photo set of 81 images taken at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, this past week. Above are Andrew Michael Baron of “Rocketboom,” Ian Clarke of Freenet, and Lacey Chavez of LaceyChavez.com. I’ll post a separate photo set of the SXSW Music Festival tomorrow. Technorati tags: sxsw […]
Bruce Sterling on the state of the world
Author Bruce Sterling gave a keynote address at this week’s South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. In this 25-minute video excerpt, which I filmed on Tuesday, he discusses "The State of the World," politics, Serbia, international affairs, deceit, living out of your laptop and much more. This is the first video footage I […]
Darknets panel at SXSW
Hope to see many of you at South by Southwest this coming week. I’ll be moderating the darknets panel at 11:30 am Monday. (They’ll post podcasts of each session some time afterward.) I’m no fan of panels where they line up two Official Spokespersons from one side to face off against two Official Spokespersons from […]
Top 5 ‘sweet websites’
The Pacer, the online student newspaper at the University of Tennessee, Martin: Top five “sweet” websites. Five websites that will enahnce your experience on the Internet. 1. LivePlasma, a music discovery site 2. Ourmedia, free storage and bandwidth for your digital media 3. YouSendIt, prevent attachments from bouncing (up to 1GB) 4. Gmail, Google’s email […]