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Emdashes: The Panel! At SXSW Tomorrow Morning. Be There!
Filed under: On the Spot Tagged: blogging, blogs, Comics Curmudgeon, Guy Gonzalez. Lizzie Skurnick, Josh Fruhlinger, Scott Rosenberg, SXSW
Start your day right with the panel I’m moderating! It’s called “Why Keep Blogging? Real Answers for Smart Tweeple.” Sorry about the usage of “tweeple”; it was entirely mobilized to tempt South By Southwest-type people, and that it has done. We’re very excited to share our blogging experiences and argument for the vitality, warmth, and future of blogs with what one of our panelists, Scott Rosenberg, calls “Geekstock.” I’ve never seen so many iPhones and Threadless tees in one place! I’ve spent the day sampling panels with Josh Fruhlinger, who’s also on the panel and who keeps getting recognized by his “Apartment 3-G”-mad fans.
Emdashes will be represented—along with The Comics Curmudgeon (Fruhlinger), The Old Hag, Jezebel, Politics Daily (Lizzie Skurnick), Loud Poet (Guy Gonzalez), and Wordyard (Rosenberg). We’ll talk about books, too, because Skurnick has published two—including Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading (which I have read more than twice, since I’ve read both the book and, several times each, the Jezebel posts that started it all)—and Scott Rosenberg has published the brilliantly titled and equally brilliantly written Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters.
Here’s the description. Please join us; it’s going to be a rollicking powwow, and full of enthusiasm and energy—a good mood to be in for the rest of the day. See you there and come introduce yourself! If you’re not already following Emdashes on Twitter, we are, of course, @Emdashes.
Why Keep Blogging? Real Answers for Smart Tweeple
Now that we think in 140-character strings and live through Facebook, it’s tempting to throw out the blog baby with the bathwater. These seasoned bloggers explain the vitality of this still-revolutionary medium—the resources, community, continuity, and space for real ideas that only blogs can provide—and its infinite future potential.
—Emily Gordon
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Dashes, some say, “are particularly useful in a sentence that is long and complex.” Emdashes—like an em dash itself—provides a thoughtful pause amid the hubbub.
Emdashes, founded in 2004, is written and drawn by Emily Gordon, Martin Schneider, Pollux, Jonathan Taylor, and Benjamin Chambers, as well as occasional guest contributors. All posts before October 2008 are by Emily Gordon.
The site was designed by House of Pretty with illustrations by Jesse R. Ewing.
Additional drawings are by Carolita Johnson and Pollux (author of our web comic, "The Wavy Rule"). The Emdashes pencil logo is by Jennifer Hadley, based on a 1943 Dorothy Gray ad.
Other writing by Emily Gordon
- Reviews: theater writing (for Time Out Chicago)
- Profile: Valerie Casey, Designers Accord founder, is spearheading the design of sustainability (for SXSW World)
- Feature: Rea Irvin: visionary art director, bon vivant, New Yorker founding father (for Print)
- Slide show: the Coney Island Mermaid Parade (for NYCgo.com)
- Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands, and an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (for Print)
- Review: King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
- Homage: Celebrating lindy-hop legend Frankie Manning (for NYCgo.com)
- Inquiry: Does a New Republic redesign mean a change of tune? (for Print)
- Interview: James Surowiecki on what's next for the wisdom of crowds (for Assignment Zero)
- Interviews: four up-and-coming designers under 30 (for Print)
- Profile: novelist and dance critic Laura Jacobs (for Newsday)
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Hi Emily,
I really enjoyed your panel this am. I thought you did a great job moderating. We wrote up some of the panel highlights on our new blog: http://bit.ly/cRbam4
Hope to see more of you on the interactive conference scene!
Megan