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I met Tim last July in Portland at OSCON. He's a cool, super interesting and funny guy. Senior editor at Slashdot. We hit it off right away. He lives in Austin and just hit the road for the 1000 mile drive to Gainesville! So, I hope you all can make the next GatorJUG on Wed. It's going to be great. Details here: http://www.codetown.com/events/gatorjug-slashdot-s-tim-lord
So, what is Slashdot? Slashdot is a website that carries news and information with a very active reading audience. My first blog used Slashdot's framework, written in Python using Zope. It's been around for a long time. Tim is an editor and helps run the site from a moderation standpoint.
Here's a bio from a 2006 OhMyNews article: "Tim Lord ("timothy" on Slashdot) is one of the site's editors, and for more than five years served as the site's managing editor; he has selected and posted close to 13,000 of the stories that have appeared on Slashdot (almost all of which are reader-submitted commentary on computer and other technical news), coordinated interviews with reader--submitted and--moderated questions, and collaborated with amateur reviewers on hundreds of book reviews. Lord graduated in 1998 from the University of Texas at Austin, and is currently a JD candidate at Temple Law School in Philadelphia."
He's going to talk with us about what it's like to deal with the huge volume of data on Slashdot: the comment spam, the content, and so much more. He'll do some live editing and story picking, too.
Tim's got a law degree and I asked him how he wound up with Slashdot. He just said "Hey, I graduated from law school and got this sweet offer from Slashdot. What a cool job!"
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