Audio post: A gaming-centric idea roundup from SXSW
In general, industry conferences are pretty focused events, their schedules packed full of company launches, announcements and expert prognosticating. Not so for the SXSW Interactive conference, which I attended this past week in Austin, Texas. SXSWi is all about developers bouncing and theories off each other — which can make it difficult to get a handle on. This voice post (which spent several days in limbo) is my attempt at boiling down the experience into a few useful thoughts.
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About the Author, Chris Morrison
Chris Morrison writes about cleantech and environmental issues for VentureBeat, with occasional forays into gaming and semantic technology. He got his start writing about tech for Business 2.0 magazine, but quickly realized new media was the ticket when that institution closed its doors in 2007. Chris has also covered public equities and regulatory issues. He originally hails from southern Virginia, graduated from Evergreen State College in Washington, and now lives in San Francisco.