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Geo-Location Visualizations from SXSW

I just came across this amazing data visualization from the South by Southwest Interactive conference.
 
The data is courtesy of SimpleGeo, a Boulder, Colorado company currently in its early stage. I am currently giddy thinking about the possibilities for storytelling.

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SXSW 2010: The Last Five Good Minutes

Omid Ashtari, Partner, c10: Content Strategy (Los Angeles, CA)
I met Omid two years ago when he was part of a panel on moving talent from the blogosphere to the mainstream media. At the time, he worked with Creative Artist Agency (CAA). Now, he’s out on his own. A partner in a new venture trying to [...]

SXSW 2010: The Super Five Good Minutes Deluxe Edition

Travis Kalanick, Investor (Los Angeles, CA)
I met Travis years ago when I worked for Wired. He was one of the founders of Scour.com, the first popular file-trading network. Different than Napster, Scour allowed people to transfer audio, video, images and any kind of file. Of course, it ended up in the same litigious spot as [...]

SXSW 2010: Even, Even More Five Good Minutes

Jenny Toomey, Program Officer for Media and Cultural Policy, Ford Foundation (Washington, DC/New York City, NY)
Jenny and I met back in 2000 when I was working at Wired News. She was in the early stages of conceptualizing what would become the Future of Music Coalition. Over the years, she’s been actively involved in music rights, [...]

SXSW 2010: Even More Five Good Minutes

Tim Malbon, founding partner, Made by Many (London, England)
My friend Aleks Krotoski introduced Tim and I last year at South by Southwest. The two of us are still trying to determine if this is because she likes us…or doesn’t. Made by Many builds custom publishing platforms, creates media on that platform and manages the community [...]

SXSW 2010: More Five Good Minutes

Andrea Phillips, Alternate Reality Game Writer (Long Island, NY)
I came across Andrea last year while doing some interviews for The Cult of Me and Dungeons + Dreamers. She was one of the writers on Perplex City, a complex ARG created by Mind Candy (and the esteemed Hon brothers, Adrian and Dan of Six To Start). [...]

SXSW 2010: Five Good Minutes

Instead of blogging this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW), I’ve decided to record segments with folks I meet with the express purpose of answering one question: What’s the one thing, in your media sphere, that excites you the most. I’ll be gathering a few of these each day. Some I’ll post here. Some I’ll post [...]

SXSW 2010

I’ll be blogging and adding my thoughts about this year’s SXSW Interactive festival.
It probably won’t be live blogged, but I am co-ordinating with the folks at AEJMC try to get the most interesting stuff here. Stay tuned.

So What is South By Southwest?

PaidContent.org has a great wrap up of the conference. Not exactly a what’s-hot, what’s-not wrap. More over an overview of what to expect if you show your face.
With just a little extrapolation, it’s also a primer for what news outlets should be thinking about in terms of their technologies.

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