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The people-powered side of selecting panels for next year's South by Southwest Festival opened today as the SXSW Panel Picker came online.

There's good news if you're looking to turn your blog into a book like Stephanie Klein, Guy Kawasaki, or Hugh MacLeod have done. Heck, they're even happy to help you. All you have to do is make something great.

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Each year, science fiction writer Bruce Sterling takes the stage for an hour at South by Southwest Interactive and turns on the jets: it's described as a state of the cybersphere address, but that's not an adequate phrase to encompass the dizzying stream of topics Sterling covers.

Austinist technology editor Jeff Beckham talked with BlogTalkRadio community manager Deborah Ng on Monday during a break in the South by Southwest Interactive Festival. In a 15-minute interview, the pair discussed how SXSW affects Austin each March, how the interactive festival has grown by leaps and bounds over the years, and where social media trends are headed.

The cultural references came fast and furious, ranging from hip-hop to Hermes, in James Powderly's all-too-brief keynote interview Monday at South by Southwest Interactive.

Big websites like Hulu and Flickr shared the spotlight with smaller sites like The Bygone Bureau on Sunday at the South by Southwest Interactive Web Awards.

In walks Gary Vaynerchuk and suddenly, life doesn't seem so bad.

Online innovators Clay Shirky and Deborah Schultz wanted to help jump-start their old-media book-publishing brethern with fresh ideas for their industry in the "New Think for Old Publishers" panel at South by Southwest Interactive.

With a few friends and basic blog tools, Nate Silver built a website (FiveThirtyEight) that wielded tremendous political power in the 2008 election. By figuring out how to be smart about data, Silver trumped pollsters and accurately predicted the margins of Obama's win and of Congressional races across the country.

Anyone expecting a barrage of face-plant videos and dirty jokes from Saturday's South by Southwest Interactive panel "Comedy on Television and the Web" didn't find what they were after.

This afternoon at SXSW Interactive, two leaders of the NYT's design team will be discussing how old media is reinventing itself to change with the times and educate attendees about how they are using emerging technology to lead the paper of record through the next great wave of customizable, interactive content.

Those are the issues that will be explored at the South by Southwest Interactive panel discussion: "Is Privacy Dead or Just Very Confused?" One of the panelists, Siva Vaidhyanathan, who earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Texas, answered a few questions via email in advance of Saturday's session. (Disclosure: Siva and I worked together at The Daily Texan back in the mid-1980s.)

With an ambling beat, Auto-Tuned vocals, and lyrics that celebrate parties over platforms, Eston Bond just created the best song ever written about South by Southwest Interactive.

Contxts' simple interface enables you to do just one thing and do it quickly: simply put, it's a way to beam your "electronic" business card to someone via SMS, and, in turn, request someone's contact info using the same system.

The folks on Monday's SXSW Interactive panel discussion, "Building a Web Business After Hours," will try to answer that question. All of the panel members have co-founded a company while facing the same pressures of time, money and family that all of us encounter.

One of the often overlooked but especially interesting components of SXSW Interactive is ScreenBurn, a special mini-fest of its own that focuses on video games and how they relate to music, media, and film.

• Prolific blogger Robert Scoble is leaving his current job with FastCompany, and may announce his newest venture at SXSW. Scoble joined FastCompany about a year ago and has been running their FastCompany.tv site. He plans to continue writing a column for FastCompany magazine, but will not do video for the site.
• Monday, March 16 looks to be the big party night for Interactive. Festival organizer Hugh Forrest reports there are more than 20 official parties and get-togethers scheduled for that evening, including the annual Nuclear Taco feat, 20 x 2, Plutopia, and the Great British Booze-Up.
• If you don't have a Gold badge, but still want to see some movies, there are several screenings that are open to Interactive badgeholders, including Ondi Timoner's We Live In Public to Gary Hustwit's Objectified.

• Alex Bogusky, the co-chairman of innovative advertising firm Crispin Porter + Bogusky, is expected to get the first day of SXSW Interactive off to an inspiring start as he talks about B-cycle, a plan to bring bike sharing to America. On Friday, March 13, Bogusky presents "Plan B: Can an Ad Guy Bring Bike Sharing to America?" to talk about the plan and how small changes can make a big impact on local communities and our future.
• More than 80 companies or projects made the finalist list for the SXSW Web Awards, in 18 categories including Activism, CSS, and Technical Achievement. The team at ReadWriteWeb took the time to review all the finalists and give a brief roundup of each one. Also, remember that you can vote for your favorite to win the People's Choice award in each category.
• A leading voice on technology, business and society, Clay Shirky is one of the featured speakers scheduled for SXSW. Here Clay sits down for an interview after his keynote at the FASTForward '09 conference last week in Las Vegas to talk about low-cost coordination and group action and the role of low-cost experimentation in finding new business models.

The Austin American-Statesman announced the 25 winners of its Texas Social Media Awards today. Winners will be honored at an awards ceremony on March 15, where an overall winner also will be named.

You may follow MCHammer, Erykah Badu, or Austin's own Ben Kweller on Twitter, but how can you be sure you're following all of your favorite artists? Check out this list, which has the Twitter accounts and websites for more than 700 musicians, along with those of music bloggers, record labels, podcasts, stores and more.

B.J. Novak (Ryan Howard on NBC's The Office) has been added to the lineup of the March 14 panel: "Comedy on Television and the Web". Organized by collegehumor.com founder Ricky Van Veen, the panel also features Sean Mills (the Onion), Keith Richman (break.com) and Meredith Scardino (Colbert Report).

Much of the buzz leading up to this year's SXSW Interactive Keynote revolved not around Mark Zuckerberg, this year's guest and founder of Facebook, but around his tendency to give awkward and empty interviews.

Eugene Mirman is much funnier than you. A mainstay of New York's alternative comedy scene, Mirman's profile has been even higher of late. In February, his Comedy Central Presents special debuted, and earlier this year, he was asked to cover the New Hampshire primaries for 236.com. He can also be seen as Jemaine and Bret's strange landlord in HBO's Flight Of The Conchords. A multi-year veteran of SXSW, Mirman is hosting this year's Web Awards at SXSW Interactive and is also performing at multiple SX venues during the music festival.

Austin is about to incur a hefty carbon footprint as SXSW kicks off, but thanks to the folks at MakeMeSustainable (MMS), people have an opportunity to walk the sustainability talk. The 'Interactive Carbon Tree' was designed specifically for SXSW in an effort to mobilize attendees at the conference to reduce their collective carbon impact. Check it out here: http://makemesustainable.com/sxsw

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In our ongoing efforts to make it as easy and intuitive for you folks to see just what's going on around town, today we're pleased to launch the newest version of our Weekly IST List. Instead of appearing on the front page with the rest of our daily articles, the Weekly IST List now has its own dedicated place on the site: you can access it through the navigation menu at the top, or...