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Omar L. Gallaga writes about technology culture for the Austin American-Statesman. He's worked for the American-Statesman since 1997 and edited Technopolis, the newspaper's personal tech section, and ¡ahora sí!, Austin's Spanish-language newspaper. He's currently a contributor to NPR's "All Tech Considered" segment, which airs Mondays on "All Things Considered." He's been a writer and performer with Austin's award-winning Latino Comedy Project, and is a contributing writer for Television Without Pity. He writes a comic strip, "Space Monkeys!" with his brother, Pablo, and lives in New Braunfels with his wife and three technologically savvy cats.

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Updates: SXSW Interactive continues slow roll toward March 2012 gigantitude

By Omar L. Gallaga | Thursday, November 17, 2011, 10:42 AM

Jeffrey Zeldman. Photo by Tony Quartarolo, via SXSW.com

South by Southwest Interactive 2012 news continues to trickle out like chocolate from a … chocolate fountain? Here are some of the highlights:

• The festival has announced that it will award its first-ever Hall of Fame Award to Jeffrey Zeldman, a web design standard pioneer. The award will be given on March 13 at the Interactive Web Awards.
• Speaking of which, the deadline for submissions for those awards is Friday.
• Ditto the SXSW Accelerator. Friday deadline. Sometimes these deadlines are extended, but better safe than sorry if you’re serious about putting your application through.
• Dropbox founder Drew Houston has been added to the feature speaker lineup.
• Game design guru Katie Salen has also been added to the lineup. You can read an interview with her on the SXSW site.
• The deadline for LAUNCHedu company submissions is Dec. 2.

Got all that? See you in March.

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