In 2012 I attended a panel at SXSW titled Digital Immortals: Preserving Life Beyond Death which began my journey exploring all the facets of Digital Legacy. I recently came across the audio (embedded below) for a SXSW talk from 2016 titled Everybody Dies: What is your Digital Legacy? The panel had several speakers each bringing a different perspective …
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Going into day one of SXSW Interactive, a tech conference in Austin Texas, the New York Times published a story on how the spotlight this year would be on hardware. The story went on to discuss several devices to make this point which included 3D printers, smartwatches, and environment sensors like Nest. They also mentioned …
2012 was a year where I began covering some broader areas. While I continue to follow services that do social aggregation as well as services that leverage social data, I continue to focus quite a bit more on personal data as well. I’ve been following sensing devices that focus on gathering data to help improve …
On Friday I came across this tweet from Brian Frank stating he had switched his Lifestream to a Likestream. Lifestreams normally contain a mashup of both personal content we create as well as content we find interesting that we “like” and share. I found his decision to basically remove his personal content from the equation pretty …
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photo by soapylovedeb I just returned from SXSW and had a really good time. There’s been some negative feedback from the event this year which I feel revolves mainly around the parties. I’ll cover that in a wrap-up post later but that’s not what I wanted to talk about here. It’s amazing to think that …
The annual pilgrimage to SXSW is upon us once again. Last year was my first time there and I had an amazing time. This year I feel a bit more prepared and plan to take full advantage of what I learned. If you’re new this year, or just want some good tips, ReadWriteWeb has created a …
I saw today that they have now posted some of the dates and times for the interactive panels for this years’ SXSW conference. Of particular interest to me is a panel being run by new Googler Chris Messina on Activity Streams. He will be speaking on Saturday 3/13 at 9:30 am with location still unannounced. …
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Last weekend the Statesman decided to start a little experiment where they solicited people in Austin through their website and on Twitter to submit photos using Posterous to help document the blistering summer heat wave. Statesman social media editor Robert Quigley has written a case study to describe the steps they took to make this …
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In my attempt to filter out all the SXSW and Scoble Tweets I managed to see one posted by Pras Sarkar about a new WordPress plugin released by Stephen Paul Weber. This plugin seems to have been inspired by Chris Messina’s DiSO Project since it was released through the project page. You can see it …
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