Jeff Beckham

You can help choose the panels for next year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival. Organizers have created an online tool that allows you to pick your 10 favorite ideas for panel discussions.
I recommended a few, and I saw some familiar names on there, like Matt Cohen and my former colleague Kelsey Ruger.
I encourage you [...]

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Simon Dumenco, who writes the weekly Media Guy column for Advertising Age magazine, rightly praises Texas Monthly for this month’s cover story, “96 Minutes“, about the 40th anniversary of the University of Texas tower shootings.
Dumenco calls Texas Monthly “one of the small handful of great American magazines” and predicts that Senior Editor Pamela Colloff will [...]

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With only 26 days until college football season begins, it’s not too soon to begin planning for the first tailgate party. The fine folks at MapGameDay.com have made it easier to customize and share your game-day activities. It’s a Google Maps mashup that allows you to create sharable maps of tailgate parties, and other game-day [...]

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Dell has posted a job listing for a Communications Operations Advisor, which translates to someone to help manage the Dell corporate blog.
The job description includes monitoring and moderating comments, identifying topics for posting, and coordinating editorial meetings for the blog team.

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Late last week, the Austin City Council approved spending up to $317,500 to test broadband over power lines (BPL), a technology that has proven elusive at best.
Austin’s chief information officer, Peter Collins, told the Austin American-Statesman, “Everyone is saying how great this is. All we want to know is, what does this really do? I [...]

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