Slashdot Founder Joins Washington Post

Rob Malda, who founded geek news site Slashdot in 1997, has joined the Washington Post as chief strategist and editor-at-large at Washington Post Labs.

He resigned from Slashdot in August and announced the new move this morning, saying that after three months of relaxing, “my wife [was] telling me that it was time to get out of her house.”

At the Post, he’ll be working with editorial folks on existing projects (like Trove and Social Reader) and creating new ones.

“Don Graham is trying to accomplish something that is a bit of a cliche these days: A startup inside an established corporation.

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