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NPR Music's Fantastic iPhone App Makes You Thankful for Multitasking

iOS 4's multitasking might be limited, but it allows background music streaming--good thing, too, because NPR Music's new iPhone app is fantastic.READ»

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Orange Power Wellies Juice Up Your Cell Phone

You're at a weekend music festival. It's raining, mud is splattering all over the place, and to top it all off, your cell phone battery is dying. That's where the Orange Power Wellies, created as part of a collaboration between U.K. ...READ»

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Delphian School Jazz Choir takes 1st Place at Pleasant Hill Jazz Festival

Pleasant Hill is the largest school jazz festival in the state, with about thirty high schools and ten middle schools sending jazz bands and choirs to participate.In the preliminary round the Delphian Jazz choir performed 3 songs. ...READ»

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Twitter Gut Checks Foursquare With "Points of Interest," Adds "Places," Introduces Will.i.am, and Reveals Promoted Tweets

UPDATE 5: Now onto Q&A with Twitter's COO, Dick Costolo, whose talk you can read about in the previous update. People have a lot of questions about how "resonance" will work and be tracked--looks like Twitter will have to work ...READ»

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SXSW 2010: My Thoughts

Have I missed the window to offer some feedback and analysis of what happened at SXSW Interactive this year?   Well, I am going to do it anyway…For anyone in the interactive, creative, film, cause, technology, media, ...READ»

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SXSW Suggestion #1: Write It Down

[There are so many ways that SXSW could change the way we think, operate, and organize around big ideas, exciting new tools, important issues, and as a community of smart, passionate people.  There are so many ways that SXSW is ...READ»

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SXSW Suggestion #2: No More Panels

[There are so many ways that SXSW could change the way we think, operate, and organize around big ideas, exciting new tools, important issues, and as a community of smart, passionate people.  There are so many ways that SXSW is ...READ»

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SXSW Suggestion #3: Set My Schedule

[There are so many ways that SXSW could change the way we think, operate, and organize around big ideas, exciting new tools, important issues, and as a community of smart, passionate people.  There are so many ways that SXSW is ...READ»

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SXSW Suggestion #4: Be Your Own Media

[There are so many ways that SXSW could change the way we think, operate, and organize around big ideas, exciting new tools, important issues, and as a community of smart, passionate people.  There are so many ways that SXSW is ...READ»

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Making Social Local at SXSW

CMO perspective on SxSWREAD»

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SxSWi offered loads of innovation...and risk to your business

So, maybe it wasn't the best idea to leap full tilt into those cool new tools we discovered through SxSWi. Learn how to safely integrate innovation without putting your infrastructure, data, business and brand at risk.READ»

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What Business Card? Just Scan My QR Code

Everywhere you look at the South by Southwest conference this week, you see QR codes. The square "quick response" codes turn URLs, vCards, or any kind of text into a jumble of pixels that you can scan onto your smartphone ...READ»

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Hot off the Presses: The Newspaper Club Produces--and Prints--a Newspaper at SXSW

A group of designers produced a newspaper during the SXSW conference and printed it on the Austin-American Statesman's press last night.READ»

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SXSWi: Drowning in the Sea of Change

SXSW is a celebration of innovation: in film, music, and interactive technologies. This is the third time I’ve gone to SXSWi, and every year I am happier I spent the time and treasure to attend. Yesterday I went to perhaps ...READ»

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Is Crowd Sourcing Killing South By Southwest?

Opening up the approval process of presentations to participants seems like a good idea, but is it slowly killing the popular SXSW conference?READ»

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SXSW 2010 Launches Today: Best-In-Class Lifestyle Brand

“The early adopters among you are likely to notice…” writes SXSW in a blog post dissecting their new iPhone app. Yes, early adopters are taking notice and descending upon the Mecca of Indie Creative Geek festivals...READ»

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Foursquare vs. Gowalla: Inside the Check-In Wars

If you ever visit the downtown Manhattan offices of Foursquare, the popular location-based social game for smartphones, don't say the word Gowalla. When I made that mistake during a visit there last November, 27-year-old cofounder ...READ»

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Winter Bazaar & Music Festival, December 15th

Delphian School is hosting an Open House during our Winter Bazaar and Music Festival on December 15th 2009.READ»

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Varsity Choir in WOU Fall Choral Festival

On Monday, November 23rd, the Delphian School Varsity Choir participated in the Western Oregon University Fall Choral Festival.  The event provides the choir a chance to perform in front of an audience of several hundred of their ...READ»

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Really?! Plane Crash Documentary on In-flight TV

A blog post to brighten your workday morning with a cheap giggle.READ»

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All Points West Music and Arts Festival

The summer music festival circuit has mostly come and gone, but with Lollapalooza still to go in Chicago next weekend, All Points West is carving out a place in the summer schedule, with headliners like Jay-Z, Tool, and Coldplay ...READ»

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A Solar Tent for Glastonbury Campers Who Can't Live Without Creature Comforts

U.K. cell phone company Orange takes festival tent envy to new heights with its Solar Concept Tent, designed to celebrate the eleventh year of Orange's presence at the Glastonbury music festival. The concept tent, ...READ»

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Fatboy Slim, Jarvis Cocker Go Blue in the Face to Battle Climate Change

Oxfam UK has teamed up with musicians including Fatboy Slim, Jarvis Cocker, Little Boots, and VW Brown for its "Blue in the Face" campaign to highlight the severity of climate change's potential impact on the world's ...READ»

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The Ultimate Showdown of Open Source Web CMS

At the recent SXSW (or South by Southwest Conference), they recently held “the ultimate open source CMS showdown.” The format of the event was patterned after “Project Runway” and “The Iron Chef” reality shows where three teams of all-star Web developers were asked to build a Web site in each of their chosen platforms using a single design concept (in this case provided by the award winning Mark Boulton Design studios) and project specification (a fictional nonprofit). Participants came from the camps of three of the best known and most widely used open source CMS projects out there: Drupal, Joomla and WordPress.READ»

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The Social Media Marketing Book Club

I get it. You want to get started in social media marketing, but you're not sure you are going to keep up with it, right? Well, then join our new book club for social media types who want a support group.READ»