Slashdot Effect, Live and In Person

Thread writes "This group is getting together slashdot readers all over the world. Check out slashdot.meetup.com to meet up with Slashdot readers in your town." The meetup.com site is pretty much brand new, and it's a fun idea. We thought this was kind of a cool idea and something a bunch of people have asked for in email and in past stories so we thought "let's see what happens."

Comments

Re:Didn't this bother anyone else?

[The Porn Count]

"Well, from a personal standpoint I was thinking of the guy at my work (where I am currently) who goes through all of the URLs visited during the day. I'm not so stupid as to use my work/important passwords on a site on the internet, but it's the principal. I *always* want to see my password in dots or asterisks or blank space. I never like having them tossed right back at me. Bah. Whatever."

Right, because if they appear as ****** on the screen, they'll also appear as ****** in your proxy's logs!

Other Topics Too...

[GeekLife.com]

Just in case you didn't look any further than the links, there are plenty of other topics too. Computer and non. Not to mention you can add your own topics/dates/etc.

spam alert

[solferino]

warning : this is a corporate entity sponsoring th organisation of this meetup

knowing this, it might be useful to browse their privacy agreement before giving them an email address that you like to keep spam free

particularly this section of text :

You also agree that we may use your information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, such as topic group newsletters or meetup announcements (which also may include promotional communications), administrative notices, product or service offerings, and other communications relevant to your use of our service.