Aporistic learnings from SXSW so far:
A bullet point in a powerpoint which wraps is not a bullet point, it´s just a bad sentence.
If you want incremental improvements, ask your users. If you want breakthroughs, ignore everybody. @kathysierra
We got more going on than we think. We could do a few things to create a 21st century we could be proud of. #brucesterling
Key to civilization is how a society treats children, the elderly, the homeless, the downtrodden and the debased. #brucesterling
The elderly will be the backbone of the non-commercial social web. They’re not so weak they can’t hit the return key. #brucesterling
Took #brucesterling’s advice, Googled Obamatrons, best headline: Obamatrons sing ‘Obamalujah’
Kittens wake up your brain. @kathysierra
The surest way to guarantee nothing interesting happens is to assume you know exactly how to do it. @kathysierra
“Second life is dead? GREAT, we love dead things.” –Colleen Morgan at archaeology panel
When audience goes into Blackberry prayer mode: Hands come together, head bows… I know I have lost you. Craig Ball
#cshirky: The internet is the largest group of people who care about reading and writing ever assembled in history.
Recipe for leveraging the Wisdom of Crowds online: Small simple tasks, given to Large Diverse groups, Designed for Selfishness in which results aggregate.
Your spam filter is millions of years old. What gets through: Chemistry. #kathysierra
Best design philosophy: Zero to Smile in three clic ks. (From the makers of Spore)
And some very Cool links that I learned about here:
The Best Of the Twittersphere: http://www.favrd.com
Dedicated to the art of Powerpoint sharing: http://www.slideshare.net
Get corporations to respond to complaints: http://www.getsatisfaction.com (And should we in Greenpeace think about using this to get customer support for Planet Earth??)
Track Twitter tags: http://hashtags.org/
Text, video, picture sharing network: http://www.utterli.com/
Facebook Connect: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/
Crowd sourced disaster reporting: http://www.ushahidi.com/
Event Live Blogging: http://www.scribblelive.com
Crowd sourced advertising: http://www.geniusrocket.org
Create your own theme song, which plays every time you come into the room where your blue+tooth enabled device detects it: http://blog.pixelfumes.com/?p=232
Mobile Activism — cell phones as activist tools: http://mobileactive.org/
This guy, an online wine blogger, was treated like a rock star here: http://garyvaynerchuk.com/
Some great quotes there