15 Favorite Random Quotes & Facts From #SXSWi
In no particular order:
- There is such a thing as internet addiction. It is a defined clinical disorder.
- If a Google search ad is socially annotated, there is a 5-10% click through uptick.
- Presenters love to use the word "magical" to describe technology.
- "Keep your head on a swivel."
- Most popular power song on Nike+: "Eye of the Tiger."
- "Our phones are like Mary Poppins' bag: bigger on the inside than on the outside."
- Presenters referring to those outside SXSW as "muggles."
- "I can't sail around the world in a broken tea cup."
- The average academic article is only read by seven people.
- There are 250 million photos uploaded every day to Facebook.
- "Geek plus storyteller = relevant data analysis."
- "'Place' is a layer cake of qualities about that place."
- "I thought Highlight was a prank. It blows privacy concerns wide open. I thought they were trolling SXSW. But it is real and there is something is liberating about just letting it all out."
- No-mo-phobia = fear of losing mobile phone.
- Women speak 7,000 words a day while men speak 2,000 words a day.