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Jeffrey Dachis, who led Razorfish during its reign as one of the original digital services firms, will be the chairman and chief executive officer of the new company, which will be based in Austin.

Austin is about to incur a hefty carbon footprint as SXSW kicks off, but thanks to the folks at MakeMeSustainable (MMS), people have an opportunity to walk the sustainability talk. The 'Interactive Carbon Tree' was designed specifically for SXSW in an effort to mobilize attendees at the conference to reduce their collective carbon impact. Check it out here: http://makemesustainable.com/sxsw

A super swell, baby-faced Harvard drop-out, Zuckerberg is constantly balancing on the edge of controversy, whether it be college hacking, the murky origins of Facebook, or the implementation of new privacy invading features on his fancy website. Yet, for a venture that is barely four years old, Zuckerberg has garnered billion dollar buyout bids, household name status and a probable place in the history books.

Are you familiar with micro-blogging? We weren't, until we took the time to Google "Twitter," the word that seems to be on everyone's busy lips. Twitter is a social networking site that enables users to quickly (and briefly) update their blog and subscribers via SMS, IM or third party application. Updates are 140 characters or less, and while many Twitterers utilize the service for relaying meaningless information regarding their day to day life, a few of them have found that passing along information in the form of short link-based posts, event notifications or emergency situation news items. The Los Angeles Fire Dept. uses Twitter as a means of communication - a lesson they learned after the 2007 wildfires. Democratic presidential candidates John Edwards and Barack Obama both use Twitter, too.

Presidential candidates make campaign stops in New Orleans this week. The Taliban is saying they will free the remaining South Korean hostages. Turkey elects new President with Islamist past. Greek forest fires lead to conspiracy theories and anger at politicians. Part-time Austinite Owen Wilson is in hospital recovering from a reported suicide attempt. Texas prison officials scared of the power books may have over inmates? Professionals use social networking sites, too....

The Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN) is a national organization that brings together folks in the nonprofit sector for professional and social networking opportunities. Tonight, YNPN Austin hosts the first in its fall Professional Development Speaker Series: led by Toastmaster members Nathalie Sorrell and Jim Walsh, the event -- entitled "How to Talk to a Roomful of People and Do It Well" -- aims to offer you some helpful tips for successfully delivering a public address, and looks to be a good chance to meet others involved in various arts, health and human services, advocacy efforts, education and other social causes.

News Corp, mother company of MySpace.com, yesterday announced that it would be spending "millions of dollars" to launch TV and online ad campaigns promoting internet safety for kids. No doubt motivated in large part by lawsuits, such as the one recently filed by a Travis County mother-daughter duo, that accuse MySpace of making it too easy for online predators to pick up underaged teens, and emotionally troubled youths like the 13-year-old girl who ran...

The Austin Music Foundation, a local nonprofit dedicated to uniting and serving our local music community, puts together a big seminar every couple of months called Music Industry Boot Camp (MIBC). Since 2002, MIBCs have been familiarizing our local musicians -- a group to which half of you reading this probably belong -- into the various and sundry business aspects of the tumultuous, sleazy, and overstimulated world of the music industry. Whether it's the 1-2-3s...

The Statesman just reported that a teenage girl in Travis County, who was allegedly sexually assaulted last month by nineteen-year old Pete Solis, has filed suit against MySpace for $30 million:

Austin Music Foundation is currently conducting a survey in an effort to better understand how we're all going about discovering new tunes these days, as well as what MySpace and similar social networking sites are all about. There are separate surveys for music fans and artists, and both look pretty quick and easy to fill out. In return for your five or ten minutes, they'll enter you in a contest for $15/$25 (music fans)...

(Austin) -- An unnamed reader leaked an Austinist.com article to the Myspace.com bulletin wires early this week, leading to mixed reactions from the social networking site's large hipster population. The article in question, "A Guy's Guide to Snaggin an Austin Hipster" was reportedly copied and pasted early Sunday night. Through a phenomenon known on the internets as "reposts," by Tuesday, the text had been exposed to more hipsters than Brit Daniel's manhood. Reactions varied...