What will the nation’s newspaper of record look like in the coming years? Learn about the continuing efforts of old media to reinvent its look, its feel and its mission.
- Tom Bodkin, The New York Times
- Khoi Vinh, The New York Times
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Designing the Future of The New York Times
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Browser Wars III: The Platform Wins
We’re doing so darn much with the Web platform these days, from cross-domain access mechanisms to new drawing and graphics tools. But in the end, we still have to deal with different web browsers. This discussion brings the leads from Mozilla (Firefox), Microsoft (IE), Google (Chrome) and Opera (Opera) together for yet another incendiary discussion about the future of the web.
Skip to the end if you you want to hear the good stuff.
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New Think for Old Publishers
This is not a discussion of whether ebooks are killing treebooks, or whether it’s possible to get cozy with an Amazon Kindle. It’s about how participatory culture and the online world interact with good old book publishing. Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, Deborah Schultz and fellow panelists will share with the audience a variety of perspectives on what’s going right and what’s going wrong in publishing, assess success of recent forays into marketing digitally, digital publishing, and what books and blogs have to gain from one another. Penguin Group (USA), which houses some 40 plus imprints and publishes an extremely broad variety of physical and digital products, everything from William Gibson’s first ebook in the 90’s to Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food to Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels (the source for HBO’s True Blood) is deeply involved in exploring ways that old and new media might better collaborate. Audience members are invited to speak up about what they think book publishers could / should be doing to better provide relevant information and content to blogs, websites, and online communities. Come tell old media what you want and how you want it.
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Tangible Interactions in Urban Spaces
The transition from physical to virtual spaces means that there is less opportunity to physically interact in public spaces. Historically public spaces were used for celebration, today they are used for anonymous mobile calls. We would like to explore the ways in which the tangible aspect of physical space might be re-introduced into our virtual interactions through an exploration and discussion of - among other things - responsive architecture.
- Mouna Andraos, Electronic Crafts
- Francesca Birks, Arup
- Molly Wright Steenson, Princeton University School of Architecture
- Ben [neb] Cerveny, AFK Stamen Gamelayers etc
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What Do I Do With Myself, Now that the Economy Has Collapsed?
They say the tech economy ebbs and flows on a 7 year cycle, and if that’s true, we’re just about over the peak and into the down cycle for companies and employees alike. So what are we to do with ourselves, when it all comes crashing down around us? This panel’s been through a downturn or two and will have some specific recommendations about how to get the most out of it, both personally and professionally.
- Andy Baio Writer/Coder, Waxy.org
- Lane Becker Pres, Get Satisfaction Inc
- Ben Brown Internet Rockstar, XOXCO
- Jane Mount 20x200
- Michael Sippey VP Prod, Six Apart Ltd
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SXSW 2009: The Decemberists
The Decemberists perform Hazards Of Love in its entirety:
"Fans of the beloved Portland, Ore., rock group The Decemberists already know the band for its outsized ambition. Frontman Colin Meloy’s blend of sweeping melodies and hyperliterate, deliberately anachronistic references won the group major indie-pop laurels — and, as of its last album, the attention of a major label. But The Decemberists’ newest project promises new heights of bombast: Its new record, The Hazards of Love, is a sprawling 17-part narrative song-cycle."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101397853
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The Ecosystem of News
It is now conventional wisdom that the newspaper as we have come to know it for last century is over, or will be in a matter of years. The question is whether we’re going to spend our time grieving over the loss, or whether we’re going to use this moment as an opportunity to invent something even better. We’re inevitably moving from the "paper of record" model to a something more distributed, a news ecosystem, but that doesn’t mean we can’t consciously define the shape of that system. So let’s figure out what values we want to preserve from the older newspaper paradigm, and what values we want to improve upon — and then let’s go build it!
Steven Johnson, outside.in
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Change v2
Obama has awoken a once in a century passion for reform. What will it take to make it work? What would "work" mean?
Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School
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Gary Hustwit and Doug Pray
A conversation between SXSW Film Festival veterans Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, 2007) and Doug Pray (Big Rig, 2007). This year’s festival sees the world premiere of Gary’s latest film, Objectified, a documentary that aims to do for industrial design what Helvetica did for the humble typeface. Meanwhile, Doug’s film, Art & Copy prepares to take the Sundance Documentary Competition by storm with a detailed look at the weird and wonderful world of advertising.
The two discuss the common ground between their latest films, including the art in the everyday, the genius of ‘Got Milk?’, and the strangeness and power of sitting in the dark and staring at a screen.
From: http://sxsw.com/node/832