We submitted an important idea for a panel discussion at the South By Southwest Conference (SXSW) – this needs to happen – and you need to help by voting for it now.

Part of the way that SXSW designs their program is from community voting through their Panel Picker, so we need your help.

blist is all about democratization – empowering mainstream people to do important things like working with data. Everyone knows that there is enormous value in mashing up two or more disparate data sources, but to date, only programmers (or at least script kiddies) have been able to build mashups. Attempts to build tools for mainstream users have not been successful so far – our SXSW session is about what it’s going to take to get there:

“Mashups: Easy Enough For Normal People?”

On Friday, August 8, the Panel Picker voting interface went live. This interface allows all of the online community to vote on which ideas they believe are most appropriate for the 2009 event. The SXSW Panel Picker voting will close on Friday, August 29. This is also the time period when the organizers will solicit extensive feedback from the SXSW Interactive Advisory Board as to which programming ideas they find most intriguing (the input of the Advisory Board is just as important as Panel Picker voting).
Vote for blist at SXSW!