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No interactive festival is complete without a swag bag or two, and the SXSW Interactive tote has always been up to the task in being equal parts necessary and adorable.

This year they will up the stakes in both regards, as the festival grows to staggering heights and the Big Bag wears a design from the reigning Queen of cute, Yiying Lu.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says the online encyclopedia will black out its website Wednesday to protest anti-piracy legislation under consideration in Congress.

Wales announced the move on Twitter Monday.

The popular online community-sourced information site will shut down its English versions for 24 hours in protest of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act pending in Congress.

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Dr. Soncia Reagins-Lilly, dean of students, comments on media reports about a controversial Twitter post sent Dec. 18 about President Obama.

The reports claim the tweet came from an official of a University of Texas at Austin organization.

Reagins-Lilly's statement follows:

Sunday's Twitter posting about President Obama was offensive and embarrassing.

Sometimes a topic that seems hot, like Occupy Wall Street, doesn't appear on trending lists, leading some activists to accuse Twitter of censorship.

But the secret algorithmic formula prefers stories of the moment to enduring hashtags, so it ignores topics that are popular over a long period of time.

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Dr. Soncia Reagins-Lilly, dean of students, comments on media reports about a controversial Twitter post sent this week regarding the shooting at the White House.

The reports claim the tweet came from an official of a University of Texas at Austin organization.

Reagins-Lilly's statement follows:

Wednesday's Twitter posting about the recent shooting at the White House was offensive and antithetical to the ideals the university promotes with regard to public discourse.

Mass Relevance has partnered with the indomitable internet force(light or dark?) that is Twitter.

The Austin-based company has been working with Twitter for months now, but Monday marks a huge step forward in terms of the scope of their business, as their partnership will allow them to offer their services with the official stamp of approval.

John Mueller has confirmed on Twitter that the opening date for his newest enterprise, the JMueller BBQ trailer, will be Saturday, October 8, at 2 p.m.

The trailer will be open until they sell out of food.

4:30pm: John Henry Faulk Central Library. Class briefly introduces Web 2.0 concepts and major social media sites, as well as blogs and wikis....

When Bill Norris announced on Twitter that he was moving on from Haddington's and had an "exciting new opportunity" ahead, cocktail-o-philes were abuzz with where he would land next.