Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

The Voice of Groklaw

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the behind-the-scenes dept.

Random BedHead Ed writes "LinuxPlanet has an interesting interview with Pamela Jones, the paralegal and blogger who created Groklaw. Groklaw has become an indespensible site for geeks who need even more SCO updates than even /. provides - and if the site's inclusion in the footnotes of one of IBM's court documents is any indication, it's been handy for people involved in the case as well. No wonder the site won Best News Site in O'Reilly's OSDir.com Editor's Choice Awards for 2003. It shows how useful and influental a well-run collaborative website can be."

14 of 198 comments (clear)

  1. slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It shows how useful and influental a well-run collaborative website can be.

    Yes, unlike Slashdot.

  2. Give em a good slashdotting... by dolo666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's one way to get revenge for /. not being chosen news site of 2003!

  3. Impossible by Kethinov · · Score: 4, Funny
    Groklaw has become an indespensible site for geeks who need even more SCO updates than even /.
    And I thought Slashdot was obsessed...
    --
    You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
  4. I think.... by 0x12d3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot has a crush on Groklaw. Cowboy Neal, Pamela Jones, it could work.

    1. Re:I think.... by anthonyrcalgary · · Score: 2, Funny

      Seriously.

      She doesn't just have groupies. She has minions.

      --
      When someone might yell at me, it has to be OpenBSD.
    2. Re:I think.... by MuParadigm · · Score: 2, Funny


      Minions? Hey! Watch who you're calling minions, or we'll come after you.

      (Pause)

      Oops.

  5. The art by AndreyF · · Score: 2, Funny

    I like the artistic touch in the top right... it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside...
    /. should get a new layout (or a choice of layouts)...

  6. Re:Pictures? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    Yeah, totally... I clicked though the whole interview, and the only thing I saw was a bunch of boring words...

  7. Al Gore served hot coffee to Hitler by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    You must be a nazi to argue that way. It is as bad as Hitler. You are a nazi who would send old ladies to hot coffee concentration camps. Al Gore did not invent the Internet so we could learn that in SOVIET RUSSIA, Apple users are ghay and *BSD is dead. I, for one, welcome our Al Gore overlords.

  8. Re:I think you overrate this SCO thing. by Rooktoven · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not all trial lawyers are evil, some actually help people. Remember, the client has to walk in the door.

    And yes, a really good one wants to be your next president. I for one think he'd be an awesome president.

    (Not that a wet dishrag wouldn't be an improvement over what we have now..)

    --

    Acquiescence leads to obliteration
  9. Maybe Pamela needs bodyguards by earthforce_1 · · Score: 2, Funny


    To protect her against the fanatical army of pro-SCO terrorists.

    (And every time groklaw gets /.ed, she can claim it was an attack from SCO zealouts)

    The only problem with this is that everybody knows what few techies they have left are probably too stupid to even know how to carry out such an attack.

    --
    My rights don't need management.
  10. Re:Pictures? by eclectro · · Score: 2, Funny

    There are no pictures of PJ on the Internet, as far as I know. She likes to guard her privacy as much as is possible under the circumstances

    Maybe to avoid the affections of countless socially-isolated, dateless nerds???

    Nah.

    --
    Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
  11. Re:"grok" is from "Stranger in a Strange Land" by gaijin99 · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...by R.A. Heinlein. It's Martian for "understand deeply".
    Well, not to get "I'm geekier than you", but "deeply" doesn't quite have the right emphisis. The root of grok was "drink", and metaphorically "to become one with". Which meant that grok, in the understanding sense, would mean to understand perfectly and completely.
    In an effort to avoid becoming completly geeky, I have avoided looking up the page number where Mike explans this :)
    I also personally believe that "geek" is Martian for "terribly attractive".
    If not martian it should mean that in some language. 'Course, I tend to think it means that in English; my GF is a geek too.
    --
    "Mission Accomplished" -- George W. Bush May 1, 2003
  12. Re:Pictures? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well, the interview does at least demonstrate that she's a real person. GrokLaw is so comprehensive that I assumed PJ was a pseudonym for an entire law firm.