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An Interview with Ben Edelman

Posted by michael on from the internet-is-for-porn dept.

Chuck Talk writes "Orange Crate has an interview with Ben Edelman, a Harvard Law student and PhD candidate in Economics. Ben is noted for his work in studying issues of privacy, spyware, internet content filtering and the global supporters of those actions."

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  1. Yet Another by Uber+Banker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Pseudo 'blog' article which offers little other than reshashing old ground.

    1. 'Orange Crate': Another site run on Slashcode/Scoop/Whatever. Look at all the article comments it attracts and groundbreaking insight on its pages.
    2. 'An Interview with Ben Edelman': So I post something in a blog/personal website, post it to a 2-bit unread news site desperate for anything original it can get, with the entire aim of reposting that on a widely read site merely to generate traffic, not for the quality of the article.
    3. 'Ben Edelman': So he's a law student, fine, but you're pushing it with 'PhD Candidate' - remember this means someone who has applied and been accepted to a PhD course, but that's it - so be means of credibility this scores 0.

    And I did RTFA, and while not bad, I fail to see what it added other than another person beating their chest under the supposition they have unique invaluable insight when the items discussed have been mentioned 100s of times in Slashdotters comments before. "Ben is noted for his work in studying issues of privacy, spyware, internet content filtering and the global supporters of those actions...", no, Ben is noted for his self delusion.

  2. Re:Cut the kid some slack by locokamil · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The point is this: the guy says nothing of substance and expects us to applaud.

    As for millions of non-slashdotters out there who are uninformed, I think they're better off getting their information from someone who's been further than law school... and possibly had a decent amount of experience countering/dealing with spyware. Seen the trenches and what not.

    I'll go ahead and maintain that this is irresponsible journalism-- if you want your writing to be taken seriously, you should at least be using credible, experienced sources. That means not using freshly minted Harvard Law students