After initially printing the SxSw Interactive panel schedule, I grabbed a highlighter and set off to narrow down my choices. After a few minutes it became apparent that much more of the page was hilighted than wasn’t. Still.. a select few were hilighted, underlined and circled.

One of those select few panels is “What Do I Do With Myself, Now that the Economy Has Collapsed?” which is being held Sunday, March 15th at 3:30. This panel holds obvious appeal to a student planning on entering the job market in the near future. Sitting on the panel is Andy Baio, a writer for Waxy.org, Lane Backer, president of Get Satisfaction Inc, Ben Brown of XOXCO, Jane Mount of 20×200, and Michael Sippy, VP of production at Six Apart Ltd. I am specfically interested to hear Michael Sippy speak. Six Apart is the world’s leading blogging software and services company. The company was founded in 2001 by two bloggers. I would be interested to hear both the personal and professional advice the panelists, who sat in our same boat not long ago, have to offer.

I’m also making a point of attending the panel “How Social Networks Are Killing the Revolution.” The title of the panel alone intrigues me. The panel will discuss how social media sites give the illusion of a “false majority-view mentality” and actually hinders accomplishing any real large scale change in the world. After being asked to join countless “1,000,000 strong for [insert random cause]” facebook groups, I would be very intersted to hear what actual change, if any, social media sites help ignite.