I want you to read something my old friend, Jelly Helm, posted in his blog back in June of ‘09. He’d attended a conference and had this observation: “Also interesting to me about the conference is the role technology and Attention Deficit Disorder play. Everyone tweeting and multitasking and blogging. Does it add more value Read More...

A theme I’m picking up across multiple speakers and panels goes something like this… Technology as the “Great Enabler” may be getting overthrown by technology as the “Great Generator of Stuff We Can’t Keep Up with Anymore and It May Actually Be Making Us Less Better People”. Yesterday’s “Why Everything is Amazing But Nobody is Read More...

Just finished a cool speech by a woman named Deb Schultz. Her theme was based on this observation: “Technology changes. Human Behavior doesn’t.” Dang interesting area to think about, this place where thecnology brings us a new set of social contracts to negortiate. We are going to have to navigate new concepts of privacy, of Read More...

On the first day of SXSW Interactive I heard a speech by Ray Kurzweil from Mind Grub. Mr. Kurzweil proposed that in the year 2049 the world’s computer network will become so stinking smart it’ll turn into a “Singularity.” Though the word’s borrowed from astronomy, here it refers to the day when the raw power Read More...

A recurring theme in a few of my panels today was a reminder that we no longer have to start from scratch with every new project or technology platform we create for our clients. Or, just because there’s a budget to build a custom search feature or a coordinate heavy geo-position system, doesn’t mean you Read More...

The session was called “Death of the Textbook, Emergence of Gaming.” Even if learning and education wasn’t a passion of mine, I still would have found this panel fascinating, and yet frustrating at the same time. We’ve (and by that I mean the U.S.) have been educating our kids the same way for decades. We Read More...

Skinny jeans. Check. Varvatos limited edition Chuck Taylors. Check. Overkill of Apple products. Check. Fair Trade gourmet coffee from independent Austin coffee shop. Check. By all outward appearances, I belong at SXSWi. So when I went to pick up my interactive badge this afternoon, you can imagine my shock when they told me my name Read More...

Adobe pre-released experimental technology today that converts your Flash files into HTML/HTML5. Wallaby is the codename, and as with any pre-release/beta software there are no guarantees on reliability or feature set. There is limited browser support and several known issues/bugs. In fact, the number of completed and working functions is about equal to the number Read More...

Can I say that? Never mind. I just did. Here’s a quick down-and-dirty of what you get… Thinner than the original iPad, 8.6mm vs. 13.2mm; and also thinner than your iPhone4 Lighter, from 1.5 lbs. To 1.3 lbs Faster 10-hour battery life, with a month of standby

Last night I boarded my flight from LA to Austin with dreams of burning down a dungeon boss with my guildies while sitting snuggly in seat 25A at 35,000 feet. Nirvana had arrived—I could finally play World of Warcraft (WoW) on a plane. No kids, no chores, no distractions. Hell, there’d even be people brining Read More...