SxSW Opening Remarks: The Youth of Today is Engaged, Creative and Politically Active

Sunday, March 9th, 2008 by Dawa Riley

A lively and thought provoking panel between Henry Jenkins (MIT professor and Cultural Theorist) and Stephen Johnson, CEO of outside.in and author. Photo Source: ArMiller Here were some of the main takeaways: New forms of learning are emerging and Jenkins and Johnson argued that today’s youth culture is not dumber. The youth ...

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2008 Forecast: “Traffic Distribution” Metric to Define Site Health and User Engagement

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt

Late last year I prophesized the "death of the homepage" and predicted a new online paradigm where the homepage as we know it today just didn't matter as much as it used to. I argued that search, RSS and widgets were driving more and more users deep into ...

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