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Category Archives: SXSW

Useful links: Internet kill switch, IE6 kill switch, SXSWi greetings

Monday, March 7, 2011

In Search of the Internet Kill Switch by Jon Orlin is important reading if you are interested in what the U.S. government is considering doing to potentially shut down the Internet whenever they want. Microsoft is ending support for IE6. Here’s one announcement of that fact. It’s not often that we encourage you to stop [...]

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Brian Artka caught it

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Video by Brian Artka: Why I Go to SXSW.

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SXSWi Outgrows Its Space

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

SXSW Interactive is growing and growing and growing. The recently published schedule for the event reveals that all that success means the conference has outgrown even the huge Austin Convention Center. The solution is to use 10 nearby venues such as the Hilton, The Courtyard Marriott, The Radisson, several other hotels plus the AT&T Conference [...]

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9 reasons why you should go to SXSWi

Thursday, February 10, 2011

SXSW Interactive. What’s the big deal? Why should you go? Here’s the story in pictures. They should explain everything. 1. You can hear great presentations. 2. You can meet people from around the world. 3. You can hear experts explain how they do what they do. 4. You can chat with everyone and find contacts. [...]

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Find the perfect font combinations

Thursday, January 27, 2011

There’s FontFuse and there’s WebINK. They go together like oatmeal goes with brown sugar. One of them suggests pairs of fonts that look really good together. The other one offers up the fonts for embedding in your web pages at a reasonable price. FontFuse offers great font pair suggestions, like this one: They invite you [...]

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Useful links: High Ed Websites, Knowbility, SXSW podcasts

Friday, March 19, 2010

Showcase of Academic and Higher Education Websites at Smashing Magazine lets you see quite a few academic sites that pass Smashing’s standards as being well designed. These fine folks, with Knowbility Executive Director Sharron Rush at the top left, are the Knowbility crew who managed the Knowbility booth during the Trade Show at SXSWi. The [...]

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My thoughts on SXSW interviews

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Remember the incident at SXSW with the way Sarah Lacy interviewed Mark Zuckerberg? This year it was Twitter founder Evan Williams being interviewed by Umair Haque. There wasn’t a huge uprising of anger this year, there was just a mass exodus from the room because it was sooooooo boring. Look at the remarks on Twitter [...]

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Women at SXSWi

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Where are the women in tech? They are at SXSWi. The South by Southwest Interactive Conference (SXSWi) ongoing in Austin the last few days is famous for several reasons. It’s a gathering place for techies of every stripe, but the techies I want to bring to your attention today are the women. A hallmark characteristic [...]

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