I had a great opportunity to explore the 2011 Seattle Interactive Conference, not as a marketer, but as a journalist, thanks to a freelance gig with the Journalism Accelerator. Roving the event as an independent reporter allowed me to cut through some of the fluff and dig into deeper issues that need to be sorted out as we venture into things like location based mobile technology. Privacy and data portability are the huge elephants in the room and won’t go away anytime soon.
Read my two articles in full length on the Journalism Accelerator:
Part 1 – General Overview and introduction to SoLoMo (social, local, mobile) space