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A Conversation with Rob Malda - Part One of Three (Video)
Slashdot's Glorious 15th Anniversary (link to bad fireworks video) is coming up in October, so Jeff 'Soulskill' Boehm and Rob 'samzenpus' Rozeboom decided to have a chat with Rob Malda. Back in 1997 Rob founded a website named Chips & Dips that later morphed into something called Slashdot, which has been (as the saying goes) "often imitated but never duplicated." Since leaving Slashdot, Rob has been doing this, that, and the other, but we'll let him tell you what he's doing in his own words. Note: This is an audio interview with some semi-interesting photos laid over it as a slide show, so you might want to listen to it rather than watch it. Parts Two and Three of the interview will be along in the next few days.
Why you proposed your wife via Slashdot?
Read all about how governments use brain pattern matching abusively.
Good to see Soulkill and Samzpenis still keeping the Dips part alive.
Why post an audio interview without a transcript? Way to know your audience.
Who really cares? And there seems to be a lot of retrospectives about him and Slashdot lately.
Running Linux Mint 13 (Mate ed.) and it plays neither on firefox or midori. Is there another source to watch this? wget -O taco http://player.ooyala.com/static/cacheable/444fd7076af0334709af3684f7f0e127/player_v2.swf -- (fail). Any suggestions?
Forward! -- Emperor Norton, 2012
No one gives a shit
Slashdot is the pits
Why are you such a tool?
Fuck your ugly face
You fucking sold this place
And now you
think you're cool?
One last question now
Can you tell me how
To profit
off of fools?
Is it astrotruf?
Paid-off trolls and smurfs?
UI that
ignores the rules?
I've got hate and spite
For this shitty site
Slashdot sucks
AC RULES!
Oh, it's all so 2011.
Enough with the video.
Just checking.
Had a blast at the last one.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
But I guess we slashdotted google+ anyways
Chips and dips AKA https://plus.google.com/photos/105030465637303791249/albums/5645165571128591969 brings up a blank page
My Aurora : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o91ZsGwJYyg
FB : https://www.facebook.com/TanveersPhotography
I mean what do you think /. is? Maybe it's something that I don't understand at all, it's a forum, it's an advertising platform, it has themes that are supposedly geared towards technology (but also plenty of flaming... well, that's an advertising technique).
But I don't get it probably, what does Malda mean by 'what it will become'? What could it become, except diluted over time? It's like a newsgroup, maybe it's IRC with memory, but what is he talking about?
You can't handle the truth.
They should ask him what he thinks of Slashdot's decline due to an increasing moronic userbase. This site used to be about open source advocacy, yet now half the people on here are using closed source Apple products. Will Slashdot even be around in a year or two?
Gosh remember '97? Back then a post this would have likely read: "this, that, and the other." instead of the grammatically incorrect and awkward "this and that and the other,"
It plays here OK on Firefox/Chrome under Ubuntu 12.04. When I try and play in in xine/vlc/mplayer I get "Compressed SWF format not supported".
AccountKiller
Wow. Just wow.
In the olden days this would have been a a 1200 post troll-fest.
Now the trolls don't even care Taco.
Or are you going to vote for Obama?
Do you support the constitution or are you going to vote for either party?
Program much?
The == operator is used for logical evaluation and is not used for assignment or declaration. So, by saying RTFA == WTFV , you're basically asking us to evaluate whether RTFA is equal to WTFV. I'll return zero for that.
This is one of my pet peeves around here. The thoughtless use of the == operator and the annoying @$())(JASDNO CARRIER fad.
Three hours after this is posted and there's still less than 40 comments, half of them are trolls or off topic. Kinda makes you think that no one really cares about Taco... and that Slashdot is falling apart due to techno-political ramblings that only get comments from fanatics so they can pound their chests.
But, hey, it's all about page hits anyway anymore. I guess Slashdot found it's bread and butter.
This audio is RAW - any chance for parts 2 and 3 we can get some compression? I'd be more than happy to help!
I think I joined in late 1997 or early 1998.
Four digit user ID club. :)
No intelligence. Less pizazz than a common boor. Lame.
The GP already made it CLEAR that the == operator is not a statement of equivalence. Go back to grammar school, you dolt.
Malda left after destroying what used to be a good website. Now, we let the resident king of editorial failure go and interview him. What, exactly, do we expect to be learned from this? Or is samzenpus just trying to get interview tips from Rob so he has a chance at a job after this site finally dies?
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Attention leftist free software hippies!
You live in a dream world, I'm afraid, and 20 cents is just the beginning. You don't think Papa John's is going to buy them health insurance do you? He's going to pay the much cheaper Fine/Tax. And his employee's still won't benefit one single iota.
In fact, Obama's 6000 new IRS agents will find these employees and take away their income tax refundable credits because they still won't be able to afford the insurance that is now MANDATORY. If they couldn't afford it before, they won't just suddenly find the money to buy your beloved Obama's individual policies.
Please try thinking now and then beyond your love for Obama.
Have you ever noticed the average age of a chain pizza store employee? 18, 23 maybe? These are the young people that Obama is now going to penalize - TAX - for not buying the MANDATORY Obamacare package. They are young and healthy and the only reason Obama and the Spread the Wealth crowd demand their participation is that they will now be paying for insurance that they didn't need before and will not use now.
It is this very group you see in your "dreams of my father" fantasy world that Obama is going to take money from that they didn't have to pay before. AND THEY STILL WON'T HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE. They'll just have to pay their own fine at tax time.
For goodness sake, take a step ouside the box!
You should stop checking your brain at the alter of the first "not completely White" President. Obama is a disaster.
Obama is doing fine, disaster presidents were Nixon and George Bush (both of them). Haters gonna hate no matter who's in charge, but I'm sure you could do better job. Just run for president come next round. It's a democracy, after all.
With sites like Digg (up til a couple years ago) and Reddit (nowadays), Slashdot has become something rather, behind-the-times. Most news stories on Slashdot tend to be days behind what's already on Reddit.
Although Nixon gave us the EPA and the Clean Water Act...
The tyrant will always find pretext for his tyranny. - The right words, yeah!