Social Change

According to the SXSW promo, Craig Newmark founded Craigslist in 1995 as a way to tell friends about cool events in and around San Francisco. It now serves more than 170 cities in the United States and in many other countries. Despite the power of this global community, Newmark’s overall approach has changed very little. Newmark retains a simple motto ...

Heather Armstrong [knows she is on wikipedia but did not create the entry] of Dooce.com and Jason Kottke of kottke.org are presenting at the keynote conversation on Sunday afternoon – they are having a conversation about blogging. According to the SXSW web site, both Armstrong and Kottke fall into the category of "pro bloggers," meaning that they are people who ...

The opening keynote for the SXSW meeting comes mid-afternoon [podcast]. Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners and Jason Fried of 37signals say they have pushed their companies in a more entrepreneurial direction over the past two years. With the idea of taking a greater amount of control over the creative they produce, both firms have built products and businesses which allow ...

The next session I am blogging about today is Convergence and Transformation: A Whole New Creative World – looking at how worlds are interconnecting. The speakers are covering subjects such as how digital convergence transforms the creative world of designers, developers, inventors, and entrepreneurs. In addition, they are tackling how trends and practices can be identified in order to prepare ...