• As Conan O’Brien looked out at the capacity crowd for the worldwide premiere of the documentary “Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop,” he couldn’t help himself. “A lot of hipsters here,” he told the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival crowd (see 8:02 in the YouTube player below). “Could meet a guy in a fedora. With an iPad…

  • Seattle Voices: Hanson Hosein on storytelling a…, posted with vodpod

  • Even as we’re lead to believe that “analog” interaction faces extinction in the digital age, we still need to recognize that all the Facebook “likes” in the world in themselves, will not bring down a repressive government (Egypt, Tunisia).  You often need to take physical, non-virtual action to really get things done. It’s why I’ll…

  • Supporting materials for my February 17, 2011 presentation to the Washington State Arts Commission forum on Engagement Through Digital Media. 1. Slideshow: Storyteller Uprising: Engagement Through Digital Media 2. National Endowment for the Arts’ Artworks blog post on “Audience 2.0: How Technology Influences Audience Participation” featuring both the U.S. NEA study (PDF), as well as…