• 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]

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 »

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]

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]

Wonkette’s parent company, Gawker Media, is sponsoring a party from 9-11 tonight at the Side Bar, on 7th and Red River. Your editor Sara K. Smith will be there feverishly downing free drinks, and she invites you to do the same. The party’s open to the public and will also feature Special Guest Stars from Lifehacker, Valleywag, Fleshbot, io9, and probably other Gawker blogs she hasn’t even heard of.

Right now in Austin, millions are celebrating the announcement of the 2007 Bloggie Award Winners. And guess who won the Best Political Weblog? That’s right, your beloved Wonkette! MORE »