Pick Your Pleasure in Panels

Hugh Forrest and his tireless team over at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival are soliciting community feedback on programming for their next annual conference (09-13 March 2007, for early planners out there). There are one-hundred and seventy-three panel proposals in twenty-three categories up for consideration, and tons of them look fantastic. The challenge is to pick just ten of the proposals that appeal to you most, and submit them to the main pool — all of this is done through their Web-based Panel Proposal Picker .

Of course, I hope that four of your top choices happen to be the ones that I proposed. For quick reference, here’s a quick rundown of those ideas.

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What Went Down at WWDC

Mac OS X LeopardApple’s 2006 World Wide Developers Conference, taking place in San Francisco as I write, seems to have disappointed a lot of people with its relatively paltry array of cool new announcements during Steve Jobs’s keynote speech. Many Mac fans, it seemed, had expected to see one or all of the following: an Apple-branded mobile phone, an iPod with a larger, wider display for viewing movies, and a new version of Front Row incorporating TiVO-like features, finally transforming it into what it so obviously wants to be: a fully-fledged home media center solution. None of it happened.

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Feeding the Hand That Fed Me

It took me a little while to get this all cleaned up and ready for release, but I’m finally making the expanded RSS buttons that we’ve started to use at NYTimes.com available to everyone. You can grab the PNG file here (right- or control-click on the image at the start of this post to save it to your computer) and start using it right away, or you can download the artwork as an Adobe Photoshop file and start customizing the label to suit your particular needs.

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