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November 18, 2011 Real Screen: IDA names winners of Creative Recognition Awards

The hosts for the evening will be Josh Fox, whose work includes Gasland and Memorial Day; and Tiffany Shlain, whose newest doc is Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death and Technology. Shlain is also the founder of the Webby Awards and co-founder of The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.

Read more: http://realscreen.com/2011/11/18/ida-names-winners-of-creative-recognition-awards/#ixzz1e6YM2k00

October 26, 2011 Fast Company: Connected: How Technology Explains The World

In her new film, Connected, Webby Awards founder and Internet philosopher Tiffany Shlain sees digital connection as the next step in harnessing our collective brainpower–as long as we don’t lose our ability to relate to each other.

October 26, 2011 ieee Spectrum: Our Next Evolutionary Step?

As creator of the Webby Awards—the Oscars of online videos—Tiffany Shlain has had a front-row seat to the Web’s power and the creativity unleashed when people with disparate points of view and from different cultures put their minds together.

October 16, 2011 GigaOM: A documentary about addiction to technology that could save us

Filmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain opens her new documentary Connected with a personal confession: She once faked having to go to the bathroom during dinner so that she could check her email on her phone. For many web-addicted people, that might not be too shocking a reveal, but for her it was a wake-up call — one that comes close to capturing Connected in a nutshell.

October 14, 2011 Spirituality & Practice: Review of Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death, and Technology

Tiffany Shlain was honored by Newsweek as one of the “women shaping the 21st century.” She is a filmmaker, the founder of the Webby Awards (celebrating the best of the Internet), and co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.

October 13, 2011 Wild River Review: A Conversation with Tiffany Shlain: On Connectedness, Interdependence and the Ripple Effect

Naturally, the founder of the Webbys (an awards series for the best of the Internet) would be acutely sensitive to technology’s role in defining what it is to be human in the 21st Century.

October 5, 2011 TribecaFilm.com(Future of Film Blog): Connected: Sometimes, It’s Good to Unplug

When filmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain set out to make her first feature, she wanted it to focus on “a brief history of everything in the universe.” After watching that first cut, she realized her signature humor was completely absent from the film. Almost on cue, life intervened and entirely rewrote her goals…

September 30, 2011 Hollywood Jesus: Connected: Starting Conversations with Tiffany Shlain

Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker and artist. She is the Founder of The Webby Awards and co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. She met with a few reporters for a roundtable interview. These are excerpts from that interview.

September 29, 2011 The Huffington Post: The Life Out Loud: An Interdependent World

In the opening segment of Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain‘s new documentary, Connected, she talks about sneaking off from lunch with a dear friend to use the bathroom, when secretly she just wants to check the text messages and emails on her phone. I’m sure we’ve all been in this situation in our lives, probably on a weekly basis!

September 29, 2011 Interdependence Project: Interview with Tiffany Shlain (audio)

Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker, artist, founder of The Webby Awards, co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and a Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute. Tiffany’s work with film, technology and activism has received 48 awards and distinctions and her last four films have premiered at Sundance.

September 23, 2011 12:21 PM CBS Techtalk: Tiffany Shlain on being “Connected”

(CBS) – The very idea of being wired to your gadgets and online 24/7 is so that you won’t miss anything. But consider, being super-wired, all the time, means you might be missing something even more significant: life.

Depicted in her documentary “Connected,” Tiffany Shlain, acclaimed filmmaker and founder of The Webby Awards, wonders, “How much faster can it go until we can’t keep up?” Though Shlain understands all of the wonderful things technology has brought us, she also realizes the downsides.

September 23, 2011 Social Times: Filmmaker & Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain On Her Thought-Provoking Documentary “Connected” (interview)

Have you ever found yourself faking a trip to the restroom to check your email on your phone or slept with your laptop? Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards, is definitely guilty of sneaking off to a fake bathroom break to text, email and tweet and this habit has caused her to ask, “What have we become?” We are all so uber-connected these days that it can be overwhelming and so she set out to create a film about what it means to be connected in this day and age.

September 7, 2011 Singularity Hub: From the Creator of the Webby Awards, A New Film About Our Addiction To All Things Digital

September 7, 2011 Noetic Now Journal: The Emerging Global Mind (article by Tiffany Shlain)

Fifteen years ago I founded the Webby Awards. I was fascinated by how the Internet was connecting people all over the world in new and unexpected ways.

September 2011 7X7: Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain’s New Film “Connected” Questions How We Relate in the Age of Social Networking

Filmmaker and early Internet adopter Tiffany Shlain is addicted to tweeting. “I’m a total junkie,” says the director of Connected, a new documentary about technology, family, and the way the Internet has changed how we think.

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May 6, 2011 Brian Solis: Revolution: Filmmaker and Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain

Nov 2, 2010 Extras from Marin Magazine Article: Meet Webby Awards Founder, Tiffany Shlain

March 18, 2010 San Francisco Chronicle: In support of “revisiting the present tense,” Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg, high-tech royalty (she created the Webbys; he’s a robotics prof at UC Berkeley), have created “Yelp,” a two-minute takeoff of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”

January 2010 ModernLuxury.com: Q&A: Tiffany Shlain Goes From Webby Awards to Film | San Francisco

June 13, 2006 BBC: The 10th Annual Webby Awards in Photos