Props to Thomas Buchanan (pictured at right), a former Peace Corps voiunteer and current freelance writer based in Austin. His name was picked from all the people who correctly answered the trivia question associated with the July listserve for the SXSW Interactive Festival. This month’s trivia question asked readers to tell us their favorite member of the 2008 SXSW Advisory Board (for the record, Thomas picked Ben Brown). Advisory Board members are extremely important in helping to select the programming for SXSW Interactive (as is the community feedback that we get from the Panel Picker voting interface). For your chance to win a free registration to the 2009 event, sign up here to subscribe to the SXSW Interactive listserve. The next edition of this information-packed monthly newsletter is scheduled to go out the week of August 4.