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Austin: Latino Internet Capital of the World!
One of several Latino-themed panels in SXSWi had the title “Austin: Latino Internet Capital of the World,” and, by all indications, no one in the room thought it necessary to quibble with the bold title.

12:29AM Mon. Mar. 15, 2010, Belinda Acosta Read More | Comment »

Critical Mass
Statesman food writer Addie Broyles and Miso Hungry blogger Jennie Chen facilitated a packed core conversation called “The Yelp Effect,” posing the question, “what happens when everyone is a restaurant critic?”

12:05AM Mon. Mar. 15, 2010, Melanie Haupt Read More | Comment »

Duplass Brothers Get Their Paramount Premiere
It started out as a sweet lovefest, the Duplass brothers taking the stage before their new film Cyrus unspooled to heartfelt applause and cheers. "We've been waiting for years to have one of our movies screen at the Paramount on Saturday night!" exclaimed Mark Duplass, to congratulatory cheers and applause.

11:52PM Sun. Mar. 14, 2010, Melanie Haupt Read More | Comment »

SXSW Web Awards Announced
The SXSW Web Awards went down Sunday evening, emceed by Doug Benson and MC'ed by last year's SXSW Film breakout MC Frontalot (Nerdcore Rising). And the envelopes, please …

11:06PM Sun. Mar. 14, 2010, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Blood, Gore, And SXSW
There was a simple way to introduce the film-makers on the SXSW Directing the Dead: Genre Directors Spill Their Guts panel: By the name of their bloodiest movies.

7:55PM Sun. Mar. 14, 2010, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Creating Something Joyful
As if being one of the innovators of the god game back in the early Nineties wasn't enough, Peter Molyneux managed to help alter the course of gaming by revisiting the seemingly simple idea of the "human game." His Fable series is now the poster child for incorporating human choices and giving them bearing on your character's evolution.

6:09PM Sun. Mar. 14, 2010, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

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10 Minutes of Comic Jumper
CEO of local game developer Twisted Pixel – and recent Austin Chronicle cover story subject – Mike Wilford showed gameplay from its awaited release, Comic Jumper. At the ScreenBurn Arcade, he had to fight the techno coming from the nearby rave/art-creation tool booth, but managed to impress the small crowd gathered around the screen.

4:40PM Sun. Mar. 14, 2010, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

Beware the Shilldebeast, My Son
A bad day for Suicide Girls at the "Selling Sub-Culture Without Selling Out Panel" at SXSW Interactive. The alt.porn website was held up as the prime example of selling out. And no, it wasn't about the money.

1:05PM Sun. Mar. 14, 2010, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

What's On Robert Rodriguez's Plate
Robert Rodriguez is busy at South By Southwest pimping Predators – the first film he is just producing and leaving the directing chores to Nimrod Antal – let slip his next project: Spy Kids 4. Rodriguez said it will have a new group of kids though some of the stars of the first three films may drop in.

11:20AM Sun. Mar. 14, 2010, Joe O'Connell Read More | Comment »

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