Where I've been and where I'm headed.

It’s been a busy… well, I was going to say week or month, but really it’s been busy all year so far. But the past month has been particularly busy.

I’ve had a big freelance project finish and a new one begin, with a planned deadline of the day before I leave for SXSW Interactive — which is today. (It’s mostly hitting deadline.) Gapers Block is still going strong, and we launched a grant-funded original feature reporting program in January that’s added a bit more to my workload.

But what ate up a lot of my time was SitBy.Us, a web app that helps SXSW Interactive attendees figure out their schedule and share where they’re sitting with their Twitter friends. (More about it here and here.) It’s really taken off — as of right now, we have 1633 registered users, which is probably around 15 percent of this year’s attendees. We’re hoping to see that rise to around 2000-2500 once the conference has begun.

I’m moderating a panel this year: The Online News of Tomorrow, featuring Jeff Jarvis of CUNY, Adrian Holovaty of EveryBlock, Jeremy Zilar of NYTimes.com, and Brad Flora of WindyCitizen in addition to me. Should be a good discussion; whether it’s exactly what we planned it to be, about may be an entirely different matter. Keep your eye out for coverage — and also for my Studio SX interview , on the same subject, with the LA Times’ Mark Milian. Both are this Sunday.

In addition to that, I’m helping out with the Break Bread for Brad memorial celebration Friday night, and with 20×2 on Monday. And who knows what else in the interim.

I’m not the only one in the family speaking this year, though. Cinnamon has a panel of her own, and it’s arguably harder than either of mine. She’s doing a “Future 15” solo talk titled “You Win When They Call You a Bitch,” about fighting sexism with social media. She’s going to be awesome.

So, yeah, a week in Austin at “spring break for nerds.” It’s going to be great. Exhausting, but great.