Slashdot "Editor Upgrade"?
There is a rumor that Slashdot has undergone an "editor upgrade". I don't know anything about it beyond what's available to the general public.
In the tradition of, err, "hyperlocal journalism", I called the parent company, OSTG, and tried to find someone who could confirm or deny "a rumor of a personnel change at the website Slashdot" (as I phrased it). I got shunted to a marketing person who wasn't in the office, so that was a dead end (n.b., it can't have been personal, as I was never asked who I was).
I sent some e-mail inquiries to people who might tell me, and haven't gotten any reply. But I wouldn't be surprised there's a staff policy not to talk about personnel matters. On the other hand, I wouldn't draw any inference from my being ignored either.
It would be nice to have it be safe for me to submit stories to Slashdot.
.
But even if so, it's really too late now.
I've
quit all censorware decryption research
and pretty much now
abandoned DMCA-fighting. So
the damage has been done, and I don't see myself ever going back to
that activism. But there's still e.g. the
Nitke v. Ashcroft
Federal trial (about the Internet and "community standards" for obscenity),
where I'm an
expert
witness.
But, as I've mentioned many a time, Slashdot's de facto support connected to the domain hijacking of Censorware Project did tremendous harm. So an "editor upgrade" would mean something to me, but much less than might naively be thought.
[Note, yes, the language in this post is deliberately careful]
[Update 2/3 : I did another round of calling OSTG, another dead-end, this time at human resources. To give a sense of perspective, in my bureaucracy meanderings, I have yet to speak to anyone who has even heard of Slashdot! (or at least is willing to admit it ...). And nobody who might know is willing to leak to me.]
By Seth Finkelstein | posted in journo | on February 02, 2005 05:09 PM (Infothought permalink)
