Tuesday’s keynote interview of Chris Anderson, conducted by Guy Kawasaki, featured two artists on opposite sides of the stage drawing mindmaps during the conversation.
The talk focused on the future of “free” commodities and services in a digital landscape. Here are the finished products:
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Again, check the Flickr stream to the right for closeups.
This is not a post about cloud computing. This is a commentary on digital culture. On this very blog, we wrote: “we come armed with laptops, digital cameras, flip video recorders, Internet accessible phones and a desire to learn from everyone and everything we encounter.” So after a week of lugging all this tech around, [...]
I thought having a PC made me an outcast while surrounded by the multitude of Macs in Allen Hall, but that was nothing compared to my experiences at SXSW. Wearing a jean skirt and bright red cowboy boots would have been less embarrassing than lugging around an oversized PC at one of the largest interactive [...]
During each day’s keynote interview, an artist standing at the foot of the stage draws a graphic representation of the conversation. The way these mindmaps are drawn is one of the most amazing things to witness live. This instantaneous development of creative content from everyday communication is inspiring.
Here’s the mindmap from Nate Silver’s discussion of [...]
More free legos!, originally uploaded by akniess.
This was really cool: tons of legos open for anyone to create stuff with. There were awesome creations lining the window sills.
One thing that really resonated with me during the culture talk we had yesterday that I forgot to add to my last post was something that I really disagreed with. It happened when one of the moderators of the conversation was comparing his company culture to a family.
It sounds like a great idea in theory [...]
We ran into The Mule from Smule, an Oregon native, who’s been playing with a new iPhone app around the festival all week.
We are currently in the middle of repurposing our student-run advertising agency, Allen Hall Advertising. As a result, we are taking a hard look at our agency’s culture and trying to figure out how to create one that fosters innovation, great ideas, initiative, creativity, sustainability, etc. So it was nice to attend the core conversation [...]
The Sunday keynote interview featured Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com, a political website that was created prior to the ‘08 presidential election that used a unique algorithm to predict the outcome. His career started by using an innovative approach to analyze baseball statistics, and this election allowed him to take the approach to a new level. [...]
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