Ask Internet Expert Dave Barry

This is a man who obviously knows a lot about the Internet. I am not making this up. He wrote a book about it. He has his own blog, his own Web site, and his own online alt.fan newsgroup with its own FAQ. Not only that, he is in a band and writes a syndicated humor column that often covers matters of interest to Slashdot readers. What are you going to ask him? Up to you, as long as you hold it down to one question per post. We'll send Dave 10 of the highest-moderated questions and post his answers as soon as we get them back, after which we're sure many alert readers will have much to add even if they haven't heard about Bennett Haselton's excellent automated Dave Barry column generator.

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-1, Forgot to proofread

[Overt Coward]

If the parent comment is selected as a question, will someone please use this corrected version:

What is your (as opposed to your publisher's) opinion on the subject of fair use as it applies to your weekly column? Do you have a problem with people quoting parts (or all) of it in email and via their web sites?

How'd you get into the humour-column business?

[RhetoricalQuestion]

I'm sure I could answer this question if I read your books and your columns and checked out your blog and fangroup and looked up archival material on your previous interviews and searched on Google and was really motivated.

But I'm lazy. How'd did you get into writing humour columns?

From a completely ill-informed perspective, getting paid to blather on about anything you feel like sounds like the ultimate job for most slashdotters.... Karma whoring for money....

Re:Can I really use the Internet...

[MissMyNewton]

Good job recognizing the use of irony and facetiousness, moderators!

bet you'd mod his books down to -1 troll.

lord only knows what you'd do to scott adams!