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The Storytelling of Science
My wife and I started our Sunday off by sitting in bed, drinking coffee, and watching this. Listen to “Bill Nye, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, theoretical physicist Brian Greene, Science Friday’s Ira Flatow, popular science fiction … Continue reading
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Spark: A Burning Man Story
My friend Jessie made this, which debuted at SXSW Film this year: She also made Who Kiled the Electric Car?: Revenge of the Electric Car: and “Death by Fire” for Frontline: Watch Death by Fire – Preview on PBS. See … Continue reading
A Very SXSW Interactive 2013 Recap
Every year, South by Southwest Interactive changes for me. When I first started coming in the mid-1990s, I wrote about music and stumbled upon technology. By 1998, I’d largely abandoned the music conference for what we now call Interactive. I … Continue reading
A South by Southwest Guide to Surviving the Nerdpocalypse (2013 Edition)
Greetings People of Earth: A few years ago, I wrote my first South by Southwest Guide to Surviving the Nerdpocalypse, which included this handy Things To Do map of Austin. In just a few days, the post became the most … Continue reading
Space: The Final Frontier
Like so many in my generation, I grew up watching the launch of NASA’s Space Shuttles. For years, we would gather in lunch rooms and classrooms to celebrate the triumph of American science ingenuity as we rocketed into space. I … Continue reading
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SXSW Interactive, a Recap
I’m just back from South by Southwest, a 10-day interactive, music, and film conference and festival in Austin, Texas. I’ll get into more detail later, but I’m giving several conference recaps to various constituencies. As I work through my round-up, … Continue reading
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A South by Southwest Guide to Surviving the Nerdpocalypse (2012 Edition)
*A note of introduction and hello to all who arrived from the SXSW Interactive website. They asked me a few questions, I answered, and they published this far-too-kind blurb. The lesson: Always make friends with the organizers! Enjoy the read.* … Continue reading
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As We May Read
I’m going to begin this little essay with the pitch: I’m working on a two-year research project that will examine how people read, extract what makes the experience pleasurable, and prototype how that experience can be re-created in a digital … Continue reading
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My Life With Steve Jobs
When I found out that Steve Jobs passed, my life with technology flashed before my eyes. I’d been preparing for this since Jobs stepped down as Apple’s CEO a few weeks because. Still… I tried to explain to my students … Continue reading
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