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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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The Linkdown for Monday, Feb. 6

By Omar L. Gallaga | Monday, February 6, 2012, 04:45 PM

The new SXSW Interactive swag bag, designed by Yiying Lu (of Twitter Fail Whale fame). Photo by Shawn O’Keefe, courtesy SXSW Inc.

The Linkdown engaged in some rare business travel last week, but is now caught up enough to provide you with a carefully curated list of events, links and SXSW Interactive news. Hey, wait a minute… this is that list! What a coincidence!

Events:

• Austin Forum on non-profits and social media with a focus on South by Southwest, Tuesday night.
• Wednesday Austin Technology Council event features Austin’s HomeAway.
• Kurt Lancaster HD DSLR workshop happens Friday at Austin School of Film.
• TEDxAustin 2012: Beyond Measure is on Saturday. I’ll be there!
• Accessibility Internet Rally, a web design competition, is open for registration. Deadline for submitting a URL is Feb. 15.
• FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics Tournament (qualifying round) happens on Feb 18.
• ProductCamp Austin 8 happens on Feb 18.
• ONA Austin meeting on broadcast TV and new media happens on Feb. 27.
• Austin Photowalk happens on Thursday.
• Next Juegos Rancheros meetup: Sunday.
• Girlstart has announced info for its 2012 summer camps.

Internet goodness:

• New CEO takes over at Micron after the tragic death of CEO Steve Appleton.
• Wired presents 100-word versions of the EULAs we all sign off on when using Twitter, Facebook and other services.
• Redbox finally announces plans to take on Netflix video streaming in a partnership with Verizon.
• Did the IRS contact you via email or social media? It’s a scam!
• How Twitter did during the Super Bowl.
• In anticipation of SXSW’s big lineup of comedy podcast shows, a New York Times piece on the phenomenon of shows like “WTF” and “Comedy Bang Bang.”
• Apple deletes a bunch of cloneish games from the App Store.
• There was a “Nurse-in” outside Facebook’s Austin offices today.
• Austinite Lyssa Myska Allen’s new website, DailyHap.
• Technology trends on the toilet.
• Pinterest is nearly matching Twitter and Google in referral traffic.
• New educational games from NASA (for iOS and on Facebook).
• RIP Peek email and Twitter devices.
• Every new HDTV: compared.
• Book or iPhone charger? How about both?
• “Breaking Bad”: the 8-bit RPG!
• “EverQuest” will go free-to-play in March.
• The male equivalent of Pinterest is called Gentlemint.

SXSW-related

• Check out the Interactive swag bag design, by Twitter Fail Whale creator Yiying Lu! (The bag is pictured at the top of this blog entry.)
• Social media and food at the fest, via Addie Broyles.
• Accelerator finalists were announced. They include six Austin companies.
• SXSWedu schedule is live.
• New late-breaking panels that have been added to the Interactive schedule.
• You can vote for the Interactive Awards’ People’s Choice here.

Got a Linkdown item we should include in a future update? E-mail it to us with “LINKDOWN:” in the subject line.

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