For noobs, SXSW Interactive can feel like the first day at a new high school. The five-day event is thick with primordial webs of friendships, rivalries, and social strata which, to the new comer, are as simultaneously palpable and inscrutable as the lunch room hierarchies of yore. Rest assured howe...

Experiencing one of those jet-lag time shifts, where the earth seems to pause on its axis for a moment, I thought “economic growth ain’t pretty.” Pro photographers must have a special Shanghai filter that lets light pass through and blocks the smog, because no matter who the archit...

So I’m here at CES like some media ninja, jumping out from the shadows to capture jpeg and video. Except it’s not out of shadows whence I’m jumping but rather the rafters of the Intel booth. Yet no one’s gonna hear me above the 25 second music loop bombarding everyone within 100M of the boot...