FringeHog » Speeches

FringeHog Tags the World is a collaborative media project designed to build an interactive database of photographs and images that illustrate emerging ideas and trends impacting the future. Here's how it works:

Set your sights on the people, places, things and activities that hint at what the future might look like in 10, 20 or even 50 years. Then snap a photo and email it, along with a title, brief description, and where the picture was taken to future@fringehog.com. Photos will be accepted now through June 15, 2007.

The theme and location of each photograph will be geo-tagged, credited and displayed on the FringeHog Tags the World Map.

In mid-June we'll cull through the photographs looking for over-arching themes and particularly unique or nascent ideas. The entire map and the emergent themes will be discussed in a special session at the World Future Society Conference in July. Select photographs and contributors will be featured in a book describing the project.

For more info and FAQs Click Here!

SXSW Panel Picker is Live

August 21st, 2007

Just in case you didn’t know, South by Southwest Interactive just launched its interactive panel picke r for SXSW 2008. The panel picker is a cool way for you to shape the programming for SXSW Interactive 08. There are over 600 panel proposals to peruse and you can vote for all of the panel proposals that you want to attend, pique your curiosity, or are proposed by folks you know. All you have to do to cast your vote is register for a *free* SXSW voting account.

Why all the info about registering and voting?

We submitted two different panel proposals:

Content 2.0: Social Media Evolved

Panelist: Sandra Burchsted, Michele Bowman, Jerry Paffendorf, and Jon Lebkowsky

Description:

Web 2.0 is transforming into Content 2.0. Learn about three social media projects that illustrate this rapidly evolving landscape; FringeHog Tags the World, an open source foresight project that’s building a visual database of trends; the Metaverse Road Map Project which explores multiple pathways to the 3D enhanced web and WorldChanging.com a network of communities that’s both virtual and physical.
Futurists’ Sandbox: Scenarios for Social Technologies in 2025

Panelist: Michele Bowman, Sandra Burchsted and Jamais Casio

Description:

What futures emerge when everything is “hyperlocal” and the boundaries between what is real and virtual disappear Take a futurists’ tour of emerging social technologies and tap into the collective genius of fellow SXSWer. In this *interactive* session, we’ll explore four scenarios about the future of social technologies in 2025.

If you find our panels interesting or if you just want to give us a five star shout out because we’re friends, we’d greatly appreciate your vote. Below you’ll find links to some of our friends who have submitted panel proposals to SXSW. Check out the 600+ proposals and take the time to give your online friends and your favorite bloggers a five star shout out. Remember, you can vote for as many as you’d like.

Thanks,

sandra

Panels proposed by our friends:

The Future is You

The Whole World is Watching

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