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Recap of Sunday and Monday at SXSWi with thoughts on sessions by Twitter CEO Evan WIlliams, NYU New Media teacher Clay Shirky, IBM Director of Citizenship and Technology John Tolva, and more.

The unavoidable and landscape-altering changes that are coming in higher education where the subject of a SXSWi session by Peg Faimon and Glenn Platt of Miami University of Ohio. They joined me for a discussion on the topic after their session.

John Tolva, IBM Director Of Citizenship and Technology, talks about the concepts around smarter cities, IBM Corporate Service Corps, and impressions from South by Southwest Interactive Conference 2010.

Day two highlights from SXSWi. Todd Watson and I talk about the Mark Cuban / Avner Rosen debate on the future of television, Danah Boyd's keynote on Privacy and Publicity, and sessions on education in the free era, building audience trust, open leadership, and lunar exploration.

Todd Watson and I share some thoughts at the end of day one at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas, including reflections on author Doug Rushkoff's talk, "Program or Be Programmed."

Todd Watson and I spent a few minutes with Lisa Kamm and Alex Cook from Google after their South by Southwest Interactive session on the long distance user experience.

developerWorks highlights for the week of March 8-12, then IBMers Andrew Hoyt and Donald Vines talk about the IBM WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit.

Khurram Nizami, IBM Rational Worldwide Tech Lead for Change and Configuration Management, defines Agile development and talks about Agile planning and Scrum as well as challenges encountered when transitioning to an Agile development approach. Register for his March 18 webcast, "The Apples To Oranges Dilemna: All Agile development tools are not the same."

Robert Syputa, Senior Strategy Analyst and Partner with Maravedis, and Dirk Nicol, Program Director for Emerging technology at IBM talk about the Cloud Computing Use Case Project.

Todd Turbo Watson shares impressions from the IBM Pulse Conference 2010 in Las Vegas.

Don Yantzi, Susan Yoskin, and Linda Cole from IBM Rational talk about this week's Power7 announcement, what it means at Rational, and opportunities for developers. Find related resources here.

Gibby McCaleb is COO of AccuScore, a leader in sports forecasting. He joins old schoolmate Todd Watson and myself for a chat about the complexities of sports analytics, AccusScore's approach, and startup lessons learned. He throws in some free Superbowl predictions.

The developerWorks Players do a mock podcast on an innovative foot-sock security tool -- SockTag. Our own Mark Cappel (former editor, Open source projects zone) and Denise Ruterbories (Manager, IT Professional Skills), two closet thespians, play the inventor of SockTag and a satisfied customer, respectively. Being in a humorous mood this morning, I thought I'd share this developerWorks blast-from-the-past that many of you probably never heard.

Kathleen Hessert is President of Sports Media Challenge, and company that advises individuals and institutions on effective media strategy. Her clients include NBA star Shaquille O'Nea, NFL quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning, and Texas Longhorn football coach Mack Brown. She joins along with developerWorks Jim Coughlin to talk about effective navigation of the social media space.

Apple announced the iPad today. Is it a giant iTouch, a Kindle-killer? Does it fall short or is it a game-changer? Probably somewhere in the middle of all of that, but certainly another cool and elegant Apple product which feels like a first volley into a burgeoning market segment. Todd Watson and I talk about it.

Todd Watson interviews Carol Galvin, Principle Segment Analyst with IBM Market Insights. She talks about the makeup of the global collaboration software market,opportunity spaces, LotusLive, doing more with less, increasingly empowered users, and more.

Todd and I caught up with Rawn Shah, IBM's Social Software Knowledge Practices Lead, to talk about his new book, Social Networking for Business.

Turbo Todd and I talk about speedgeeking and a blogger session with IBM execs on Tuesday, and summarize major announcements on Wednesday.

Todd Watson and I wrap up day one at Lotusphere 2010 with morning session highlights and major announcements.

Day one at Lotusphere in Orlando. Turbo Todd and I sat down in the product showcase with Gina Poole, VP of Marketing 2.0, IBM Software Group. Gina talks about the growing value of social software in the workplace, challenges that customers face, and how IBM is doing it internally, in particular with BlueIQ, an internal program coordinating the IBM Software Group adoption of social tools like Lotus Connections, Lotus Quickr, and Rational Asset Manager, as well as pilot work developed in IBM’s Technology Adoption Program and research labs.