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.…
Defiance: redefining transmedia?
One of Ravensbourne's key focuses of study is how stories are now being told across multiple platforms, generally called transmedia. There was a rather significant panel at SXSW on a new venture in this area, called Defiance, which is…
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…
Heading to South By
SXSW Interactive is allegedly the greatest event in the world for anyone in the creative Web and technology industries. Sitting here on a plane containing select former colleagues from my previous life as a computer…
Google Minus – Reporting from VIRCOMM 2013
It was highly ironic this week to sit through an entire day's worth of conference presentations at VIRCOMM 2013, an event for online community professionals, and hardly hear Google+ mentioned at all. In fact, the…
Popcorn.js Experiments – Part 1
Popcorn.js is a great library of script commands for controlling video, and triggering events from the timeline to make the content more interactive, created under the auspices of the Mozilla Foundation. It's a powerful…
Coda to Mozfest 2012
For the second year running, the university where I (mostly) work has been host to Mozilla's annual Festival. Mozilla hires the entire building – all nine floors of it – and fills it with the…
The End of TV!
So, I've been beavering away over the summer on the book I started a few years ago and have been struggling to get any headway with ever since. I did manage to get the first…
I, Cinna Success
On Monday 2nd July 2012, Ravensbourne hosted the I, Cinna event I mentioned in a previous blog post. This brought together the talents of students from a wide range of course backgrounds, as well as…