One of the features of the South by Southwest Interactive festival is that they allow the attendees and interested parties to help determine the programming. I’ve rated about half of the 2200-ish submissions. I’ll describe my rating process and my general impressions of this year’s Panelpicker.
I participated in KFAI’s Speaker Series presentation of long-time, award-winning Twin Cities journalist Nick Coleman. I sat on the panel of public affairs programmers in my capacity as an independent self-publisher on the topic of the Twin Cities (aka a cityblogger) for going on five years.