Rob Malda (CmdrTaco) Joins the Washington Post 232
kodiaktau writes "Slashdot founder and long time cat herder Rob Malda joins the Washington Post per an announcement today. According to the press release, he will be the Chief Strategist and Editor-at-Large working for WaPo Labs."
Rob has a more detailed description of the job on his blog: "Don Graham is trying to accomplish something that is a bit of a cliche these days: A startup inside an established corporation. A group that can exist at a nexus between newspapers, websites, cable networks, and TV stations and think about the big picture and the future without the normal burdens associated with a business operating at a large scale. ... They are actively iterating and experimenting in many directions, with strong support from the top of the organization. ... Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli assures me that I'll also be working with the newsroom where I can contribute words, ideas, and tools that will improve the experience of the journalists doing work that I personally believe transcends the bottom line."
Dupe!! (Score:2, Interesting)
So when Slashdot dupes this story, the Post will have a dupe to link to!
WaPo... Gah! (Score:5, Interesting)
Are we talking about the *same* Washington Post that continually loses my ID so I have to re-register over and over again so I can post comments on their politics articles?
The same WaPo that employs Jennifer Rubin who writes hateful articles, and when we try and correct her, those posts are deleted?
The same WaPo that won't load the page at all if the ad server is a little slow to respond? Instead you're staring at a blank white page, which is just as well, since the article will likely be filled with factual errors as well as spelling mistakes?
Taco, if you're going to start anyplace, fix their online presence first, as right now, I'm hesitant to even load the site on my browser.
Re:CmdrTaco is a hip arbiter of tech trends? (Score:5, Interesting)
If we judge the majority of slashdotters by the content in that thread, then sadly most of us probably shouldn't be commenting on technology news:
A charming example:
by (Sanitized to predict the innocent) Alter Relationship on Tuesday October 23 2001, @01:52PM ...
Raise your hand if you have iTunes
Raise your hand if you have a FireWire port ...
Raise your hand if you have both ...
Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device ...
There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod.
Re:CmdrTaco is a hip arbiter of tech trends? (Score:3, Interesting)
Every smug Slashdotter thought exactly the same about the iPod and still smugly thinks so now.
FTFY. Slashdot, where nerds strut around being smug and hip by blaming the users of Apple products of being smug and hip.
Timely! (Score:5, Interesting)
This is really cool, because I just finished reading how badly Washington Post screwed up [washingtonpost.com] with the "Inventor of Email" story. In fact, if you look at the comments you can see that former OSDN CEO Robin Miller (aka roblimo [slashdot.org]) suggested that they hire someone from the slashdot crowd to work on IT reporting. Maybe they took it to heart.