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SXSW's a real kick
By Owen Thomas, 2:50 PM on Sat Mar 8 2008, 735 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Honestly, does anyone come to SXSW Interactive for work? There are just enough earnest Web-design panels to make it a plausible tax writeoff. Anil Dash of blog-software maker Six Apart gets it: For years, he's been organizing a kickball game in a park near the Austin Convention Center. Sadly, no fights broke out over his calls as umpire.
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