Your editor showed up at the Austin Convention Center well in advance of her panel and spent many fruitless minutes finding the registration booth, getting checked in, and assuring the registration people that she was not some impostor “Sarah Smith” from some non-Wonkette entity. Fortunately, this process went on long enough that she got to meet Mark McKinnon! MORE »

Oh, it will be a jolly time as we talk about all the terrible ways the evil corporates and inept political parties tried to use Web Techmologies to get people to do things last year! They were all so cynical and dumb, when they weren’t being naive and dumb. If none of these generalities make any sense, that is because you have not been following the social medias, in which case you really need to go to this panel so that you will have shit to talk about at the frog design party afterward. 5PM-6PM Saturday. [SXSW Suxorz '09]

Remember how you voted so faithfully and got an editor of this-here politics blog onto a panel about failed social media campaigns? Well, that panel will be next Saturday, March 14 at 5PM at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas. It will be a HOOT. Rahm Emanuel will be there in his knickers! Tell your friends! [SXSW/Suxorz]

• WE HAVE BECOME MONSTERS: “Sara K. Smith of Wonkette fame is the fourth Suxorz panelist, with solid lead among the 2059 votes cast. Thank you all for participating!” [Suxorz Facebook]

Your own Sara K. Smith has been nominated by a mysterious “Ken” to appear as a fourth panelist in some South by Southwest Interactive panel on bad social media campaigns. Who are the other nominees? Oh, a bunch of people who actually know “things” about social media. Obviously this cannot stand. Saddle up and get to work plz. Oh and unlike that other web “blogs” awards thing, you can only vote once, so vote wisely! [Survey Monkey]