It’s that time of year again, when web, film and music geeks flock to the mecca of super-geekdom: SXSW. This year Steve and I are participating in LOADS of stuff and plan to party into the wee hours of the morning. We’re only going to be there from Friday through Monday night, so we have to get our fill.

This time around we’ll be working with PBS and partying it up at the PBS Interactive Social Media and Online Video Studio, so make sure to drop by! We’ll be interviewing and hanging out with filmmakers, interactive visionaries and online producers, and generally people who are doing awesome stuff! We’ll also be running around the convention floor, so if you see us, pull us over and say hi!

PBS HQ for this year’s SXSW will be at 406 E. 6th Street (2 blocks from the convention center). We’ll be there Saturday, March 14th – Monday, March 16th, from 12-6pm. Happy Hour starts at 6pm, and at 6:30pm we’ll have Live performances by Paul Dateh, David Kitchen, and Alejandro Escovedo!

If you can’t make it to SXSW, don’t worry, we’ll be streaming it ALL Live at http://pbs.org/sxsw. We’ll also be tweeting throughout our stay, so you can get updates of our adventures at http://twitter.com/pbsengage, http://twitter.com/zadi, and http://twitter.com/stevewoolf.

I’ll also be on a few panels, so make sure to check those out too!

Friday @ 3:30pm, Room 18BCD: How to Rawk SXSW: The Basics

Geared particularly to first-time attendees to SXSW Interactive, this panel focuses on how registrants can leverage all the different elements of the event to achieve your personal and professional goals.

Saturday @ 5:00pm, Room 12AB: The Ten Worst Social Media Campaigns

Bring popcorn and rotten tomatoes! Braving hate-mail after naming last year’s “winners,” the Suxorz ’09 panel returns to dissect the ten worst social media and web 2.0 ad campaigns of the year. Together, we’ll shame the marketers who abuse people-powered media.

See you there! :)