If you like technology, brisket and huge crowds of harried people, there’s no better place to be this weekend than SXSW. We’ve got five of our writers on the ground dodging raindrops and wacky startups in Austin, Texas, and here’s what they’ve found. (Check out this post for an idea of what we expected going into the legendary event.)
Thursday, March 7th
- Here’s what cell phone coverage looks like for SXSW
- Bill Gates: education needs much more than just 1 percent of R&D spending
Friday, March 8th
- Liftoff! Your design plus a 3-D printer could power the next rockets in space
- The King of 3D printing kicks off a SXSW focused on the physical world
- Designing for health tech? Remember the 7 deadly sins
Saturday, March 9th
- A wish list for education technology
- The internet of weird things at SXSW: smart porta potties, light books and a robot zen gardener
- Anne-Marie Slaughter on female workplace equality: it’s about men, too
- Where WordPress is headed: Longform content, curation and maybe even native ads
- Eric Ries-backed Neo Innovation launches new fund focused on lean startups
- Elon Musk on his one regret from the NYT incident, spaceship scares & Russian missiles
- Dalton Caldwell on our software choices: You are what you eat
- Lean government? How HHS is following Silicon Valley’s lead
Sunday, March 10th
- 5 things I’ve learned in 24 hours as a SXSW newbie
- ‘E-mail’ is uncool, and other language lessons for the digital age
- “Finding out who your real friends are”: How David Carr views paid content
- Two good infrastructure considerations for the internet of things from SXSW
- How a bad fantasy baseball team turned Nate Silver into America’s top data nerd
- When it comes to getting news on Twitter, you are who you follow?
Monday, March 11th
- Why the pencil is still the most important tool for digital designers
- Meet the 12-year-old who’s pitching his app at SXSW
- Some of the weirdest marketing gimmicks we saw at SXSW
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