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  1. Let me google that for you by linhares · · Score: 4, Informative · on FCC Probing Apple, AT&T Rejection of Google Voice

    Apparently not... here's a good read on that: http://www.capitolvalley.net/2008/02/drm-net-neutrality-and-apples.html

  2. Stop mangling submissions. by afeinberg · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Writers Find Blogging To Be a Stressful Method of Reporting

    Dear Slashdot Editors,

    Please stop mangling my submissions. I did not submit to you the NYT article. I submitted the commentary to the NYT article which I wrote as a tech/public policy blogger reacting to the story. I find the way you guys now strip out submitters content and simply link to the "mainstream" article insulting and really makes me want to contribute to the discussions less and less. Why is my contribution less valuable than the NYT article? I think my commentary as an informed reader adds much to the discussion, and could have done quite a bit to improve the quality of comments here.

    Is there a reason you no longer link to other people's submissions, only their mainstream media material?

    I have been a Slashdot reader since 1998-1999. I read less and less. This is why. While I took the time to format, edit, and submit a story containing links to both the original NYT article and my own commentary you found it OK to strip out my entire submission and bury it in your worthless "firehose" and instead simply use me as a tip-off instead of a contributor to a community which I have been on for over ten years. Check my UID.

    Is original (ie, not from "news sites") content no longer relevant on Slashdot? Hey Malda, Bates? Remember me? When did your site become a news aggregator instead of a place to discuss ideas, not just rehash articles from mainstream press? I don't feel like part of a community right now. I feel like I'm doing work just so someone else can take the credit. I spent a good amount of time writing that post that I linked you to, and you all but ignored it.

    Why?

    Andrew Feinberg
    Angry Slashdot Veteran

  3. Zonk forgot to add... by afeinberg · · Score: 1 · on California Lawmaker Seeks Climate Change as part of Public Education

    That we have a pretty decent commentary on this over at Capitol Valley, so please feel free to discuss it there, too. I'm a little annoyed at the liberties the editors take with submissions these days. I mean, I've been around since '98-99 (see the 4 digit UID, dude?) and there used to be a bit more respect for the submitters instead of just trying to keep traffic on the site.
     
    Hey Zonk, could you at least add my URL to my name on the main post, dude? Come on.

  4. The 'Wag, Scoble and I had this a week ago. by afeinberg · · Score: 1 · on Lessig For Congress?

    This is old news. We've been talking about it for a while.

  5. Comcast loves free market, hates competition. by afeinberg · · Score: 1 · on Comcast's FCC Filing Called Unfair, Not Good Enough

    Over at Capitol Valley they've got a pretty good clue about how strong Vuze's reply is.

    Basically, they hit the Republican Commissioners over the head with their own free market theories and say that if Comcast creates the market by entering the video distribution world (as opposed to just managing a network and controlling the flow to keep it fair for all users), they have to let the market decide if they are the bes provider of video instead of messing with their competitors under the guise of "network management."

    I (heart) irony.