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The lizard brains who occupy power in the Texas legislature are denying basic rights and freedoms to American citizens. It's another key victory in their Culture War, which they've been fighting for how long now? Definitely since the 1960s. With the state legislature's latest move to restrict access to abortions after six weeks, people who care about human rights are understandably angry. Women are justifiably …
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UPDATE 3/6/2020: SXSW HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN IT'S 34-YEAR HISTORY. South By Southwest kicks off next week. Or does it? According to The Verge, Twitter is canceling employee travel to the annual South by Southwest festival, including CEO Jack Dorsey’s planned keynote, due to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus. The company announced Sunday it was halting all “non-critical business …
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https://youtu.be/H9b_-EiWgy4 I first made my way to South By Southwest in March of 2003. The conference, the city of Austin, and the creative industries have all changed considerably since then. It was just 16.5 years ago, but in our accelerated, digitally-disrupted world things happen fast. To make my point even clearer, when I first attended South By in 2003, there was no Twitter, no Facebook, no Instagram, …
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Texans are people with great stories to tell plus the time and skill to tell them well. It's one of the things that I love most about the state. In the political storytelling arena, some of the stories being told by Democratic officeholders and candidates for office are powerful personal stories of struggle and redemption. Julie Oliver for #TX25 Let's hear from healthcare advocate Julie Oliver, who is running …
Legendary musician and music producer T Bone Burnett came to SXSW 2019 to slay digital demons. I highly recommend that you make some time to watch his keynote and/or read the text of his speech. It may shake you awake. There is so much to digest in Burnett's speech that no recap is going to suffice. I will pull a few gems forward for your consideration, however. Here's one...have you heard the name Edward …
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AUSTIN—It's a gray Monday morning in Bat City. My commute to downtown is easy and free parking is available on the east side of I-35. I walk to Rainey Street, where Bose, the country of Australia, and other big brands are temporarily encamped between the permanent food trucks. I am here to visit the Comcast NBCUniversal House in order to attend a panel sponsored by Bluprint, called "Creativity Today: When …
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South By Southwest, or #SouthBy for short, is a mashup of industry festivals—film, music, interactive, gaming, comedy, and education—all of which take place in and around the Austin Convention Center over a 10-day span in March. The first SouthBy was held in March of 1987. Now, 32 years in, both SouthBy and Austin are huge. The city's population was 461,000 people in 1987 (the year I graduated from college). …
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The first thing I noticed when we stepped outside at the Austin airport was the smell of freshly cut grass. That may have been the most promising moment of SXSW Interactive. SXSW’s website describes the Interactive portion of the festival as: An incubator of cutting-edge technologies and digital creativity, the 2014 event features five days of compelling presentations and panels from the brightest minds in …
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