We might be living in the wrong experiment

One of the many very enjoyable and inspiring talks I attended at SXSWi was on Design Fiction.

Here’s how it was billed.


Design fiction is an a...

Mike Laurie   ·   24 March 2010

A few quick questions: Pete Cashmore at SXSW 2010

Right before South By, we sent a few SXSW-related questions over to Pete Cashmore of Mashable for him to answer. Mashable is one of the sites people both ...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   24 March 2010

Transient permanence

In amongst all the digital talk at SXSW there was one panel that felt very analogue. In fact, it was about physical things. Titled “Maps, Books, Spimes, P...

Simon I'Anson   ·   23 March 2010

Too many tweets, but who’s the twat now?

The past five days have contained two of the more epic social media fails in recent history. Most of us remember last year’s Skittles fail — the one where...

Sara Williams   ·   22 March 2010

A manifesto for Agile strategy: oxymoron or innovation?


You can talk and think about stuff for ages and ages before doing something or other. Why not just do something straight away and learn from that?

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Justin McMurray   ·   22 March 2010

Existentialism and flamethrowers at SXSWi

At SXSWi, I was expecting to be sold the shiny digital future, but what I found was something stranger and unsettling, somewhere fragmented, confused. Is ...

Paul Sims   ·   19 March 2010

It’s a wrap. SXSW over… ’til next year.

I wrote a week or so ago about what I wanted to get from South by South West.

Now it’s all over, the hangover has faded but the jetlag is lingering lo...

Simon I'Anson   ·   19 March 2010

Birds of a feather flock together

There are so many good things about SXSWi but the best thing for me – by a long way – was the people.

I know, it sounds a bit soft but I’ve come back ...

Tim Malbon   ·   19 March 2010

The gang’s back on home turf

One cowboy hat, four flights, six blog posts, dozens of sessions, hundreds of tweets and waaay too many tequila shots later, Made by Many is home from Aus...

Sara Williams   ·   19 March 2010

Lazy panels and lazy tweeting

I’ve just come out of the SXSW Evan Williams keynote. Although there was the odd glimpse of wisdom (and a vaguely interesting announcement about the @anyw...

Isaac Pinnock   ·   15 March 2010

The Kingdom of Awesome

We were milling about at @LenKendall‘s @the3six5 meetup at The Ginger Man here at SXSW last night when Greg Christman, aka @reelspit, came over to say hel...

Tim Malbon   ·   14 March 2010

Can there ever be an online masterpiece?

One of the SXSW sessions I attended today was the Ze Frank session on the ‘creative lifestyle’. I found it a bit pointless, really. It appeared to be a lo...

James Higgs   ·   13 March 2010

Conflict resolution (or how to deal with bastards)

One of the SXSW sessions I went to yesterday dealt with the problems that arise when folks you work with are tricky, incompetent or just a bit of a pain i...

Charlotte Hillenbrand   ·   13 March 2010

South by round up Day 1

The reaction to our Twitter home page take over has been overwhelmingly positive. Thanks everyone for their feedback and comments. It was really fun worki...

Isaac Pinnock   ·   13 March 2010

Battle for your TV: the big TV smackdown at SXSW

I made bad choices for the first two time-slots at SXSW, so I had high hopes for the third, PayTV vs Internet – The Battle For Your TV, featuring Mark Cub...

James Higgs   ·   13 March 2010

When blogging met Twitter: meet Ready for Ten

We’re now the proud parents of a site for, well, parents. Ready for Ten is a conversation space for mums and dads of 6-9 year olds. We built it for Fruit ...

Sara Williams   ·   12 March 2010

The iPad: one step forward, two steps back?

The commonplace view within magazine publishing is that the iPad is going to save the industry. Will it? And in the process, will the iPad become a force ...

William Owen   ·   12 March 2010

SXSW countdown: one day!

At long last… tomorrow morning we’re off to Austin!

Stu and Antonica, Made by Many’s de facto cat herders, are limbering up even as we speak to corral...

Sara Williams   ·   10 March 2010