• A VERY SPECIAL PODCAST: This is a recording of that panel your editor attended a month or so back at South by Southwest. Alas, people shouting from the audience didn’t get picked up by the microphones, so you don’t hear all of Obama’s Web people gleefully pointing out the Republican nerds sitting a row behind them, sulking about the mockery of their earnest efforts to Rebuild the Party. All you hear is one Sara K. Smith whooping with joy for no apparent reason. [Suxorz 2.0 at SXSW]

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]

VOTE TO PUT YOUR SARA K. SMITH ON SOME SOCIAL MEDIA PANEL! Hey lozers have you voted yet? Give it a try, it is super fun! It is a way more fun thing to do right before you leave work than, uh, working! Plus don’t you want to send Sara Smith to the great Republic of Austin to share the “good word” about social media campaigns such as that thing where Burger King bribed people to EXTERMINATE their “friends” from their Facebook accounts? You bet you do. Click the goddamn clicky. [Survey Monkey]

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]