One more before I leave for Puerto Rico:
Hugh forrest from South by Southwest [1] has decided to go all wisdom of crowds [2] on us and has put up the panels for next year's SXSW Interactive for voting 
From his email :
I wanted to alert you that the online interface for panel proposals for the 2007 SXSW Interactive Festival is now live. This page allows users to give us their feedback on which of the many outstanding panel proposals they feel are most appropriate for next year's event. The panel idea and description that you sent me earlier this summer is listed on this page.
See http://2007.sxsw.com/interactive/panel_picker/ [3]
Complete directions for the voting process are listed on the site. I definitely encourage you to vote for the idea(s) that you submitted. As well, I encourage you to send this link to friends and associates to encourage them to vote for your idea. As noted on the site, please remember that votes submitted by past speakers and past attendees will be given slightly more weight than the votes of users who have not yet attended SXSW Interactive.
Deadline for voting is September 8.
My request is for you to not only to vote for the panels I have proposed but, if possible, to please forward this information to any past SXSW participants you may know. Posting on your blogs will be most appreciated for faster diffusion.
My proposed panels are :
BlogSheroes: The Feminist Bloggers Network
You heard about the big boys of blogistan. Now hear about the women who are giving them a political run for their blogging.
The Digital Ethnorati
Polls have shown that the fastest growing segments of new media adopters (mobile, internet, computers) in the United States are Asian, Latino and African Americans. Liza Sabater has identified these wired minorities as the "Digital Ethnorati" and in this panel we will explore how members of the new majority are changing the rules of political [and social] engagement with the net.
Ten Years of Net Art
One could say that net art was the last of the 20th century avant garde art movements. With a mix of hacker culture and punk aesthetics, the pioneers of net art mashed up, remixed, hacked, shredded and rioted online way before these online expressions became illegal. Come meet some of the people [who] made the web the fun place it is today.
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