Austin is the live music capital of the world, or so we claim despite a city sound ordinance that goes into effect at 10:00PM. Our unofficial motto is “Keep Austin Weird”. We have a semi-famous homeless person, Leslie, who has his own Facebook page. Celebrities who call, or have called, Austin home include Sandra Bullock, Read More...

Thank you, Steve — for your passion, your ideas, your innovation. You changed everything.                       “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful … that’s what matters to me.” — from Read More...

 POSTED BY SLAND Clouds are good, like rainbows and unicorns. BY tonda dysart Full disclosure, I label myself an early adopter, but not a first adopter. I didn’t buy the first iPhone, but did buy the iPhone2 and then upgraded to iPhone4; we didn’t get the first iPad, but we do have an iPad2. Although Read More...

One thing you can always count on from Apple is a good show. Monday’s keynote was no exception. First of all, the fact that Steve Jobs was there presenting was a pleasant surprise. Second and as if on-queue, there were plenty of hoots, hollers and applause at just the right moments. And most well-deserved in Read More...

There’s a fun little web app where you generate an instant infographic of your twitter account, or anyone’s account. TweetTopicExplorer Here’s what mine looks like…

I love this statement. It says to me teamwork, curiosity and drive for excellence. It was written by Josh Clark, author of Tapworthy, on the Globalmoxie blog in reference to the ongoing rivalry between Mobile Web and Native Apps. Actually Josh claims the rivalry is as much media hype as reality. Most people use both, so why Read More...

That tweet was uttered by Jeffrey Zeldman, pretty well-known web designer and blogger. This generated a lot of discussion among the online design community. In this session it begged the question, ‘what defines a real web designer’. One perspective: hire the one who can write (not necessarily code, but someone who can write a clear, Read More...

If you take a look back at what happened to the record industry the last decade, it would be hard to miss similarities with the publishing industry. Hard copy magazine sales (and subscriptions in particular) have dramatically declined and continue to do so. Some publishers see the iPad and digital magazines as the death of Read More...

I had a logistical glitch in my plans this morning that landed me in a different session than I had scheduled. It turned out to be a very happy accident. June Cohen, Executive Producer for TED, was speaking about what they refer to as their radical openness, specifically, “Growing TED by Giving it Away”. She Read More...

Turns out “Time Traveling: Interfaces for Geotemporal Visualization” doesn’t have anything to do with time travel. Still though, very interesting.  Tools that handle time well do not do well with spatial context (space is an abstraction). And vise versa. How do you marry these two important elements — visualizing an object or event in it’s Read More...