They've opened voting on proposed SXSW Interactive panels, so folks can influence the conference. It's a cool way read the tea leaves.

panelpicker.sxsw.com (use the categories at right to run the picker)

Some things I noticed:

• A theme of last year was the growing cry for a nonprofit track; so far, there are 16 panels proposed for the category Nonprofit.
• Enterprise has 37 hits, Cloud has 19, Javascript has 21, and Programming and .NET both have 23 each.
• RIA (rich internet applications) has 147. Yes, really.

Save the date! March 13-17, 2009, Austin Convention Center; easy access to "The Brightest Minds in Emerging Technology".