Whose Line Is It Anyway – screenshot by Skitzitilby/Flickr
After a week of unusual nights out– featuring trampolining, Balkan and Israeli folk dancing and ukulele to name three – tonight had the potential to be the weirdest yet.
The Box of Frogs theatre impro workshop is held in Moseley, Birmingham’s arty, crusty and eclectic postcode, every [...]
Shuffleboard networking in Austin
After posting about the 12 things I learnt at SXSW 2010, here’s a more practical roundup of the things I came away with.
I gained…
* …some content strategy contacts
This was one of my main reasons for attending. Content strategy was a SXSW Interactive content buzzphrase this year. The content panels [...]
I learnt…
* …that Austin looks awesome from the 33rd floor
Fringe events outside of the main SXSW programme are occurring all the time. I just found out today for example that there were THREE Twitter parties (not just the official one). But you can often only come across these serendipitously through the people you meet at [...]
I took 16 pages of notes at SXSW Interactive festival this year. It’s hard to get your head around all the difference panels, talks, core conversations and notes-to-self but I think this Wordle shows something of what I was getting from and attending at South By in 2010.
It’s particularly interesting that the top three [...]
A little SXSW diary catchup… It’s the halfway point of SXSW Interactive and I’m still gearing up into this festival to end all web festivals.
Here’s my personal/business mission statement for this year’s event – slightly different from last year as I’m being part-funded to attend by the UK’s Digital Mission along with about 25 others [...]
Somehow I’ve lined up a conference a month for the next three months. Here are their taglines, blurbs and what I’m aiming to do at each one:
Search Engine Strategies 2010
London, UK, 15-19 February
Tagline: The Original Search Engine Marketing Event.
Blurb: Three days of sessions covering PPC management, keyword research, SEO, social media, linking building, [...]
Typical. I wait six months to write my Austin, Texas, feature after visiting South By South West Interactive and then go on holiday just when it’s published. It went in the Sunday Mercury travel section on 4th October 2009 to tie in with Austin City Limits (Austin’s ‘other’ music festival).
I don’t normally like my own [...]
Alltop founder Guy Kawasaki looks over Accelerator winner Weardrobe.
Spent all day in Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator where the cream of the internet start-ups compete via 2-min elevator pitches to be crowned winner in their category. Kind of a Crufts for online business.
Best in show were:
Innovative Web technologies – Ribbit
Social Networking Applications – Weardrobe
Online video realted [...]
Legendary kebab panel at SXSWi
Undoubtedly the best twitter hashtag of SXSWi, #kebab quickly became the WTF session of the whole interactive festival.
Set up by School of Everything, Tuttle, Fix My Street and others, it was a word-of-twitter-mouth, rogue, wind-up unpanel that took over room 12 and brought a bit of classic UK punk [...]
Making whuffie at SXSWi using the power of Twitter.
11.30am Making Whuffie: Raising Social Capital in Online Communities
The language of the internet is lagging behind the tech and culture changes… which is presumably why ‘whuffie’ has been picked from a sci-fi story from the creator of Boing Boing in which currency is not money but [...]