In a landmark appearance at the world-leading SXSW Interactive show in Austin, Texas, the US President explained how he’s trying to drag government into the 21st century One thing you can always rely on at…
PanelPick Me!
For the last two years, I've taken a group of Ravensbourne students to SXSW in Austin, Texas. I'll be taking a group again in 2015, but I've also proposed presenting a panel about the live…
SXSW 2014: Show Highlights
The SXSW Interactive (SXSWi) festival in Austin, Texas is without doubt the biggest digital culture event of the year anywhere in the world. The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and CeBIT in Hannover have…
Edward Snowden makes a rare virtual appearance at…
Continuing the theme of security in the Internet age at SXSW 2014 in Austin, Texas, an even more timely discussion session involved former CIA computer specialist Edward Snowden. It was one of the highlights of…
Julian Assange talks about the global information order…
Almost everyone has heard of Julian Assange now, even if not many of them went to see the recent film about his life starring the increasingly ubiquitous Benedict Cumberbatch. So it's no surprise there was…
Spaceflight’s commercial future
Space was a recurring theme at SXSW, with NASA hosting a number of sessions. In his keynote interview, however, Elon Musk painted the most viable future for man's exploration of the Solar System and beyond.…
Consoling OUYA
OUYA's founder Julie Uhrman provided one of the most controversial keynote panels at SXSW. If you happened to sleep through most of 2012, OUYA leapt to fame last year for its hugely successful call for…
An audience with Kim Dotcom
One of the secret gems of SXSW was the interview of the infamous Kim Dotcom by Charles Graeber of Wired magazine. Graeber is writing a book about the Megaupload prosecution, so knows the case well.…
Fancy meeting you here!
If you ask the veterans of SXSW, the event is as much about the people you meet accidentally as it is about the workshops and presentations you attend, and today has really underlined this. Right…