So, as I was planning a separate post about the parties at SXSW I realized that it would be dominated by one as I had the most fun taking pictures of folks at Happy Cog’s karaoke party.

I’ve done karaoke (badly) and I’ve taken photos at parties before, but this party was special as they had fantastic lighting and super campy performances.

Here are some of my favorites:

Tara Hunt channels Styx.

Haveboard’s Humpty Dance

Feel the Power of Schlomo Rabinowitz

David Armano lays down some Skynyrd.

Sarah Harrison had a story to tell about her little cat.

Happy Coggers Rob Weychart and Kevin Hoffman gave us the time of our lives.

Lauren Isaacson’s spot on Winehouse brought the house down.

Aaron Brazell represents. ‘Nuff said.

Thanks Happy Cog for a great party. Let’s do it again next year, shall we?

More Happy Cogaoke pictures here.

I upped my photographic game this year with some new camera gear in hopes of documenting SXSWi as best I could. Here are some of my favorites from the keynotes from this year.

Tony Hsieh (and his Zappos crew) want YOU to have good customer service.

Kathy Sierra and Gary Vaynerchuck

Gary Vee of Wine Library TV

Kathy Sierra points to something that kicks ass

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com

Stephen Baker (Businessweek) and Nate Silver

Tony Hsieh of Zappos.com

Lawrence Lessig talking about Change 2.0

More pictures in my Flickr stream

There are numerous ways in which you can build your SXSWi Schedule this year including Sched, cerado ventana and the main SXSW site.

But one thing missing from all of this is a good way to look at the folks who are on a given panel. I made a little spreadsheet that has the panels broken out by the people giving them, it’s derived from the official list here, but sortable so you can find the folks you might want to see and the panel they are on.

Unfortunately, I didn’t incorporate the times they are happening, but this is a good way to insure you don’t miss the people you truly want to see.

See the whole list over at Google Docs