http://interviews.slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2009-07-11T19:50:20+00:00 SourceForge, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://s.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://interviews.slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~3/082mJw_ZexE/Bethesda-Speaks-On-Gamebryo-Engine-Final-emFallout-3em-DLC PsxMeUP writes "Game Observer conducted an interview with Ashley Cheng, Production Director at Bethesda. He answered questions about the Gamebryo engine, why they prefer it over other engines and the advantages it presented while making Fallout 3. Cheng also talks a bit about what inspired their designers while making Fallout 3 and what is in store for the PS3. Apparently, much of the team has read Cormac McCarthy's The Road, which inspired the look and story of Fallout 3. Bethesda, according to Cheng, will never create a game like Final Fantasy because the Gamebryo engine is better at handling 'open ended worlds ripe for exploration.'" Meanwhile, Bethesda's Jeff Gardiner spoke recently about the game's fifth and final DLC release, Mothership Zeta, which finds players aboard an alien spaceship in orbit. He said, "The player will have a handful of tasty alien technologies to play with. There are new fire arms and melee weapons, which will comprise the most powerful weaponry in the game."<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1655222/Bethesda-Speaks-On-Gamebryo-Engine-Final-emFallout-3em-DLC?from=rss"><img src="http://interviews.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/09/1655222"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1655222/Bethesda-Speaks-On-Gamebryo-Engine-Final-emFallout-3em-DLC?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qDc0jdBJaRqYABu2DuimvZyqpkk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qDc0jdBJaRqYABu2DuimvZyqpkk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qDc0jdBJaRqYABu2DuimvZyqpkk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qDc0jdBJaRqYABu2DuimvZyqpkk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~4/082mJw_ZexE" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-07-09T17:24:00+00:00 games more-and-better games 92 92,89,74,56,13,7,4 http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1655222/Bethesda-Speaks-On-Gamebryo-Engine-Final-emFallout-3em-DLC?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~3/sXNsVrn7HHU/Jazz-Technical-Lead-Erich-Gamma-Answers-Your-Questions Last week you asked Jazz technical lead Erich Gamma questions about Jazz or anything else in his realm of expertise. Here are his answers, along with many external links and places to continue the conversation if you are interested.<p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/09/07/08/1851209/Jazz-Technical-Lead-Erich-Gamma-Answers-Your-Questions?from=rss"><img src="http://interviews.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/08/1851209"></a></p><p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/09/07/08/1851209/Jazz-Technical-Lead-Erich-Gamma-Answers-Your-Questions?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YrotZLHcn7UP7lkjLT30XyUIsdo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YrotZLHcn7UP7lkjLT30XyUIsdo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YrotZLHcn7UP7lkjLT30XyUIsdo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YrotZLHcn7UP7lkjLT30XyUIsdo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~4/sXNsVrn7HHU" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2009-07-08T19:30:00+00:00 programming direct-line-to-the-experts interviews 52 52,45,31,20,12,5,4 http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/09/07/08/1851209/Jazz-Technical-Lead-Erich-Gamma-Answers-Your-Questions?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~3/dcGSFrn71GQ/Ask-Jazz-Technical-Lead-Dr-Erich-Gamma As IBM continues to build out Jazz, their community-oriented development site, technical lead Dr. Erich Gamma has offered to answer questions about Jazz or anything else in his realm of expertise. Among his many accomplishments, Erich worked with Kent Beck on the Java unit testing framework, JUnit, and was actively involved until JUnit 4. Dr. Gamma was also one of the fathers of Eclipse and the original lead on the Eclipse Java development tools. Feel free to fire away on Eclipse, Java, JUnit, the Rational suite, the Jazz site, or anything else you think Erich might be able to answer. Usual Slashdot interview rules apply. Update 19:05 GMT by SM: As pointed out by user Hop-Frog, Dr. Gamma is also co-author of the influential computer science textbook Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.<p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/09/06/30/1728254/Ask-Jazz-Technical-Lead-Dr-Erich-Gamma?from=rss"><img src="http://interviews.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/30/1728254"></a></p><p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/09/06/30/1728254/Ask-Jazz-Technical-Lead-Dr-Erich-Gamma?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/S62wS5eM-jMB1L8ukor97izFJcs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/S62wS5eM-jMB1L8ukor97izFJcs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/S62wS5eM-jMB1L8ukor97izFJcs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/S62wS5eM-jMB1L8ukor97izFJcs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~4/dcGSFrn71GQ" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2009-06-30T18:49:00+00:00 java sing-me-a-tune interviews 83 83,79,67,43,19,10,6 http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/09/06/30/1728254/Ask-Jazz-Technical-Lead-Dr-Erich-Gamma?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~3/ucgaZjc1r94/CSIS-Cybersecurity-Commission-Chairman-Jim-Langevin-Answers-Your-Questions Last week we solicited questions for US Representative Jim Langevin (D-RI), one of the chairs of the CSIS Cybersecurity Commission. Here are his answers &mdash; along with contact information for him if you want to continue the conversation.<p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/12/19/1448238/CSIS-Cybersecurity-Commission-Chairman-Jim-Langevin-Answers-Your-Questions?from=rss"><img src="http://interviews.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/12/19/1448238"></a></p><p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/12/19/1448238/CSIS-Cybersecurity-Commission-Chairman-Jim-Langevin-Answers-Your-Questions?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VIbInhPWvZLVej9uQNfZM_vc03E/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VIbInhPWvZLVej9uQNfZM_vc03E/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VIbInhPWvZLVej9uQNfZM_vc03E/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VIbInhPWvZLVej9uQNfZM_vc03E/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~4/ucgaZjc1r94" height="1" width="1"/> Roblimo 2008-12-19T16:44:00+00:00 usa yet-another-chapter-in-the-continuing-U.S.-government-cybersecurity-saga interviews 75 75,69,53,44,18,6,4 http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/12/19/1448238/CSIS-Cybersecurity-Commission-Chairman-Jim-Langevin-Answers-Your-Questions?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~3/OOA177vPiYY/Ask-Cybersecurity-Commission-Chairman-Jim-Langevin-About-US-Cybersecurity-Plans US Representative Jim Langevin (D-RI) is one of the chairs of the CSIS Cybersecurity Commission that released a comprehensive 96-page report on Dec. 8 under the title, Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency. The aim of the Commission is to help the incoming administration balance "cyberspace" security needs with civil liberties. We'd like to thank Rep. Langevin and his staff (some of whom are ardent Slashdot readers) for taking time to answer your (hopefully) cogent questions. Usual Slashdot interview rules apply, and &mdash; also as usual &mdash; we'll post Rep. Langevin's answers as soon as he gets them back to us.<p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/12/12/135207/Ask-Cybersecurity-Commission-Chairman-Jim-Langevin-About-US-Cybersecurity-Plans?from=rss"><img src="http://interviews.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/12/12/135207"></a></p><p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/12/12/135207/Ask-Cybersecurity-Commission-Chairman-Jim-Langevin-About-US-Cybersecurity-Plans?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mmiLm5h5NMyb8mo4MMfEY_SuWOg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mmiLm5h5NMyb8mo4MMfEY_SuWOg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mmiLm5h5NMyb8mo4MMfEY_SuWOg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mmiLm5h5NMyb8mo4MMfEY_SuWOg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~4/OOA177vPiYY" height="1" width="1"/> Roblimo 2008-12-12T17:01:00+00:00 government Chapter-72854-in-the-endless-security-vs.-liberty-debate interviews 92 92,89,77,61,36,19,11 http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/12/12/135207/Ask-Cybersecurity-Commission-Chairman-Jim-Langevin-About-US-Cybersecurity-Plans?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~3/TEQBNXO6_eQ/Blizzard-Answers-Your-Questions-From-Blizzcon Last week we asked you to submit questions for several Blizzard employees on a wide range of issues. Since we undertook the pilgrimage to Blizzcon in person this year, we decided to use the question ideas as a guide rather than an absolute, so that it could be a little more conversational in tone. Below we have included the responses from Chris Sigaty, lead producer on StarCraft II; Jeffrey Kaplan (aka Tigole), game director for World of Warcraft; Leonard Boyarsky, lead world designer on Diablo III; and Paul Sams, Blizzard's COO. One interesting point: Paul Sams indicated in his interview that, with enough interest, Blizzard would be willing to entertain the idea of open sourcing some of their older games. He suggested that if you are interested in this to contact them directly (please be at least semi-coherent and polite). Update 19:00 by SM: Bob Colayco from Blizzard just contacted us to mention that if users wish to leave feedback about open sourcing games, support for Linux, or anything else you would like to express to them, you should do so in the comments section of this story. They plan on perusing the comments below for user feedback and interest, so don't be shy.<p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/10/15/1639237/Blizzard-Answers-Your-Questions-From-Blizzcon?from=rss"><img src="http://interviews.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/10/15/1639237"></a></p><p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/10/15/1639237/Blizzard-Answers-Your-Questions-From-Blizzcon?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IQkyWgMFzz-ic386OP3aZ5bfAW4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IQkyWgMFzz-ic386OP3aZ5bfAW4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IQkyWgMFzz-ic386OP3aZ5bfAW4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IQkyWgMFzz-ic386OP3aZ5bfAW4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~4/TEQBNXO6_eQ" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2008-10-15T17:55:00+00:00 rts mmmwwwruurgll interviews 402 402,400,291,179,53,30,19 http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/10/15/1639237/Blizzard-Answers-Your-Questions-From-Blizzcon?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~3/tpBz6nFZrjs/Ask-Blizzard-Employees-About-Things-That-Matter In just a few days, some of us will be making the trek to this year's Blizzcon event in Anaheim, CA. In addition to the interesting announcements, sneak peeks, and other distractions, we will be sitting down with several Blizzard employees to answer any questions you might have. So far we have scheduled some time with Chris Sigaty, lead producer on StarCraft II; Jeffrey Kaplan (aka Tigole), game director for World of Warcraft; Leonard Boyarsky, lead world designer on Diablo III; and Paul Sams, Blizzard COO. Please address your questions to one (or several) of these candidates and try to keep them civil and on topic. Questions about Diablo III's art style will most likely be omitted since we have limited time and that dead horse has already been beaten into submission. The usual Slashdot interview rules apply, but beyond that, the sky is the limit.<p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/10/06/1915217/Ask-Blizzard-Employees-About-Things-That-Matter?from=rss"><img src="http://interviews.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/10/06/1915217"></a></p><p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/10/06/1915217/Ask-Blizzard-Employees-About-Things-That-Matter?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SIvxpMQo1W489QyvS0YJIKj13kQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SIvxpMQo1W489QyvS0YJIKj13kQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SIvxpMQo1W489QyvS0YJIKj13kQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SIvxpMQo1W489QyvS0YJIKj13kQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~4/tpBz6nFZrjs" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2008-10-06T19:44:00+00:00 games opportune-moment interviews 504 504,494,413,292,68,50,37 http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/10/06/1915217/Ask-Blizzard-Employees-About-Things-That-Matter?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~3/eoxZ6YDElcU/Be-Part-of-the-2008-Presidential-Youth-Debate We participated in this project back in 2004. This year it's hosted by Walden University, and the format is a little less cumbersome than it was four years ago. So go ahead, ask some questions you'd like to see McCain and Obama answer, and they'll go into the pot along with questions submitted through other channels. Later this week you'll have a chance to help moderate the final questions chosen from all sources, and on October 20 you'll be able to see video responses from the two major party candidates. Please limit to yourself to one question per post, and note that questions must be posted no later than 4 p.m. US EDT on Monday, September 29, to be considered.<p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/09/28/2019204/Be-Part-of-the-2008-Presidential-Youth-Debate?from=rss"><img src="http://interviews.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/09/28/2019204"></a></p><p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/09/28/2019204/Be-Part-of-the-2008-Presidential-Youth-Debate?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/K5B5iHzX-F41JumObzmodBrtm8A/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/K5B5iHzX-F41JumObzmodBrtm8A/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/K5B5iHzX-F41JumObzmodBrtm8A/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/K5B5iHzX-F41JumObzmodBrtm8A/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~4/eoxZ6YDElcU" height="1" width="1"/> Roblimo 2008-09-28T21:29:00+00:00 democrats they've-already-promised-to-answer interviews 513 513,500,440,298,65,42,21 http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/09/28/2019204/Be-Part-of-the-2008-Presidential-Youth-Debate?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~3/XmrtjER9dZ0/Answers-from-Harald-Welte-VIAs-Open-Source-Representative Earlier this month you asked Harald about VIA's open source strategy and his work with gpl-violations.org. Here are his well-thought-out, informative answers.<p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/09/16/1219212/Answers-from-Harald-Welte-VIAs-Open-Source-Representative?from=rss"><img src="http://interviews.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/09/16/1219212"></a></p><p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/09/16/1219212/Answers-from-Harald-Welte-VIAs-Open-Source-Representative?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5Yf0L7Q9NOSM-7nrLpIVERw4uok/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5Yf0L7Q9NOSM-7nrLpIVERw4uok/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5Yf0L7Q9NOSM-7nrLpIVERw4uok/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5Yf0L7Q9NOSM-7nrLpIVERw4uok/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~4/XmrtjER9dZ0" height="1" width="1"/> Roblimo 2008-09-16T16:00:00+00:00 gnu taking-time-out-from-his-unbelievably-hectic-schedule interviews 65 65,61,54,39,14,8,5 http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/09/16/1219212/Answers-from-Harald-Welte-VIAs-Open-Source-Representative?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~3/q2GjFyoKLdM/Ask-Harald-Welte-VIAs-open-source-representative In this recent Slashdot post kernel hacker Harald Welte was characterized as "VIA's open source representative," but that is just one of many irons he has in the fire, as a glance at his Wikipedia bio will show. You can obviously ask Harald about many interesting things besides VIA's open source strategy &mdash; and before you ask about VIA, you ought to read the last few entries on his blog, at least one of which mentions VIA questions he can't answer. But VIA aside, there's plenty to ask Harald about. For example, he won an award from the FSF earlier this year for his work on gpl-violations.org. In any case, Harald is a powerful force for GNU/Linux and Free Software, and we appreciate him taking time out of his undoubtedly hectic schedule to answer your questions. (Usual Slashdot interview rules apply.)<p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/09/02/1438242/Ask-Harald-Welte-VIAs-open-source-representative?from=rss"><img src="http://interviews.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/09/02/1438242"></a></p><p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/09/02/1438242/Ask-Harald-Welte-VIAs-open-source-representative?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xQ-Ltw2xSotVN5oottPrcV74Doo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xQ-Ltw2xSotVN5oottPrcV74Doo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xQ-Ltw2xSotVN5oottPrcV74Doo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xQ-Ltw2xSotVN5oottPrcV74Doo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~4/q2GjFyoKLdM" height="1" width="1"/> Roblimo 2008-09-02T16:00:00+00:00 gnu meet-a-free-software-renaissance-man interviews 56 56,50,41,32,22,20,13 http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/09/02/1438242/Ask-Harald-Welte-VIAs-open-source-representative?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~3/zwmvUSpCn84/WCG-Tournament-Director-Admits-Drugs-In-E-Sports SlappingOysters writes "In the lead up to the World Cyber Games finals in Germany, Gameplayer has an incredible interview with Tournament Director Alex Walker in which he freely admits knowledge of participants taking illegal drugs to enhance their performance. The interview came in response to a previous article by the site in which they examined whether there was a need to bring drug testing into professional gaming events to ensure a level playing field. Walker said, 'I've seen a number of players at national tournaments who came in "baked" (that's stoned for the uninformed) purely so they could play better. In most cases they did, although obviously they couldn't just pull out another joint midway through. In one WCG, a player I knew took amphetamines an hour before his match to boost his reflexes.'"<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/08/08/28/1249210/WCG-Tournament-Director-Admits-Drugs-In-E-Sports?from=rss"><img src="http://interviews.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/08/28/1249210"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/08/08/28/1249210/WCG-Tournament-Director-Admits-Drugs-In-E-Sports?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KZUDGeIdlsi6JUjbIWjkjf4Sn2M/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KZUDGeIdlsi6JUjbIWjkjf4Sn2M/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KZUDGeIdlsi6JUjbIWjkjf4Sn2M/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KZUDGeIdlsi6JUjbIWjkjf4Sn2M/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~4/zwmvUSpCn84" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2008-08-28T13:44:00+00:00 pcgames hopped-up games 448 448,439,337,231,65,40,31 http://games.slashdot.org/story/08/08/28/1249210/WCG-Tournament-Director-Admits-Drugs-In-E-Sports?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~3/1Z7bvM3Bt08/NewsTrust-Founder-Fabrice-Florin-Answers-Your-Questions On August 18 and 19, you submitted questions for NewsTrust founder Fabrice Florin about his (non-profit) site's ability to live up to its claim, "Your guide to good journalism." We sent selected questions to Fabrice on August 19. Here are his answers.<p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/08/25/141243/NewsTrust-Founder-Fabrice-Florin-Answers-Your-Questions?from=rss"><img src="http://interviews.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/08/25/141243"></a></p><p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/08/25/141243/NewsTrust-Founder-Fabrice-Florin-Answers-Your-Questions?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WquiarJAlDf-JGmkjpesnP_IUIo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WquiarJAlDf-JGmkjpesnP_IUIo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WquiarJAlDf-JGmkjpesnP_IUIo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/WquiarJAlDf-JGmkjpesnP_IUIo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~4/1Z7bvM3Bt08" height="1" width="1"/> Roblimo 2008-08-25T15:49:00+00:00 media trying-not-to-become-a-hive-mind interviews 59 59,57,50,39,15,12,8 http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/08/25/141243/NewsTrust-Founder-Fabrice-Florin-Answers-Your-Questions?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~3/rGYrbHniaNE/Ask-NewsTrust-Founder-Fabrice-Florin-About-NewsTrust-mdash-Or-Anything-Else NewsTrust is, to quote from the site's header, "Your guide to good journalism." Specifically, NewsTrust links to stories published both by well-known media and by less-known blogs, and asks its users to rank and review those stories on accuracy, balance, context, evidence, fairness, importance, information, sources, style, and trust. It's an ambitious effort with an impressive group of advisors, that is starting to be taken very seriously by a growing number of people who follow media matters closely. Founder Fabrice Florin is reasonably impressive himself. He's been a leader in online multimedia content for many years, and if you remember the excellent mid-1980s documentary film Hackers, he's the guy who directed and produced it. Fabrice is kind of a "behind the camera guy," so there aren't a lot of interviews with him out there. Usual Slashdot interview rules apply.<p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/08/17/2227257/Ask-NewsTrust-Founder-Fabrice-Florin-About-NewsTrust-mdash-Or-Anything-Else?from=rss"><img src="http://interviews.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/08/17/2227257"></a></p><p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/08/17/2227257/Ask-NewsTrust-Founder-Fabrice-Florin-About-NewsTrust-mdash-Or-Anything-Else?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IGhXxvmOqH2LEhB3dg7zMhZNtME/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IGhXxvmOqH2LEhB3dg7zMhZNtME/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IGhXxvmOqH2LEhB3dg7zMhZNtME/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IGhXxvmOqH2LEhB3dg7zMhZNtME/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~4/rGYrbHniaNE" height="1" width="1"/> Roblimo 2008-08-18T16:10:00+00:00 themedia searching-for-needles-of-truth-in-piles-of-dreck interviews 72 72,65,54,41,21,9,6 http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/08/17/2227257/Ask-NewsTrust-Founder-Fabrice-Florin-About-NewsTrust-mdash-Or-Anything-Else?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~3/esB0ZW9GgXU/Literacy-Bridge-Founder-Answers-Your-Questions You asked Cliff Schmidt, founder and executive director of Literacy Bridge, about charity, education, and the "talking book", and he has answered your questions with a fair amount of detail. Cliff asks that if you are interested in getting involved please don't hesitate to donate either your time or your hard earned cash.<p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/08/14/1515225/Literacy-Bridge-Founder-Answers-Your-Questions?from=rss"><img src="http://interviews.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/08/14/1515225"></a></p><p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/08/14/1515225/Literacy-Bridge-Founder-Answers-Your-Questions?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yQxjfkw_NBO_cemVn6maDpx3OC8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yQxjfkw_NBO_cemVn6maDpx3OC8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yQxjfkw_NBO_cemVn6maDpx3OC8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yQxjfkw_NBO_cemVn6maDpx3OC8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~4/esB0ZW9GgXU" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2008-08-14T16:07:00+00:00 hardware all-for-a-good-cause interviews 18 18,12,11,9,5,4,0 http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/08/14/1515225/Literacy-Bridge-Founder-Answers-Your-Questions?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~3/kEFztiamvPY/Ask-Literacy-Bridge-Founder-About-Charity-Education-and-the-Talking-Book Literacy Bridge is a public charity working towards the goal of creating tools for knowledge sharing and literacy learning. More specifically, they have been working on producing a $5 "talking book" device that can both help improve literacy and provide a steady flow of important information while the education is taking place. Unlike many in the "wouldn't-it-be-nice" category, Literacy Bridge already has working silicon, shaped plastic, and actual presence in their target country, Ghana. Literacy Bridge has no paid employees, but several who volunteer their time to make this idea a reality. Cliff Schmidt, founder and executive director of Literacy Bridge, would like to answer any questions you have about the charity, the mission, or the technology. Prior to Literacy Bridge, 'Cliff ran a successful open source software consulting business for clients throughout Europe, the Middle East, and North America, specializing in intellectual property issues, nonprofit governance, privacy policies, and community development. He also served many nonprofit organizations, such as The Apache Software Foundation, the Eclipse Foundation, the OpenSEA Alliance, and the Free Software Foundation' in addition to working as a industry standards rep for Microsoft. Click through to see the Google TechTalk given by Cliff earlier this year. The usual Slashdot interview rules apply &mdash; so ask all the questions you'd like, but please confine yourself to one per post.<p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/08/06/2047251/Ask-Literacy-Bridge-Founder-About-Charity-Education-and-the-Talking-Book?from=rss"><img src="http://interviews.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/08/06/2047251"></a></p><p><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/08/06/2047251/Ask-Literacy-Bridge-Founder-About-Charity-Education-and-the-Talking-Book?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1RG5cYEHbyB4INEovZENMDBsNsQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1RG5cYEHbyB4INEovZENMDBsNsQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1RG5cYEHbyB4INEovZENMDBsNsQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1RG5cYEHbyB4INEovZENMDBsNsQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews/~4/kEFztiamvPY" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2008-08-07T15:05:00+00:00 technology doing-what-you-believe-in interviews 61 61,53,44,34,18,6,4 http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/08/08/06/2047251/Ask-Literacy-Bridge-Founder-About-Charity-Education-and-the-Talking-Book?from=rss Search Slashdot stories query http://interviews.slashdot.org/search.pl