Ben Stanfield, Executive Editor, MacSlash, Inc.
Track: Insanely Great Mac
Date: Thursday, October 28
Time: 11:35am - 12:20pm
Location: Lafayette/San Tomas/Lawrence
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MacSlash is one of the premiere Mac News sites on the web. The site made a bang by breaking the story that Microsoft was acquiring Bungie, dashing the hearts of many a Mac gamer. Live and unedited forums are the centerpiece of Macslash and were the first on the Mac News front, providing readers a place to sound off in the context of the stories.
Built on the open source Slashcode, MacSlash is the only one of the major Mac News sites actually run on Mac OS X Server. The site, running on a Xserve G4 colocated at Digital.Forest in Seattle, is entirely Mac run and developed.
MacSlash migrated to OS X Server in the winter of 2002, becoming one of the first media outlets to do so. MacSlash also broke new ground by being one of the first Mac websites to successfully adapt the open source package Slashcode to the OS X Server environment. Nat Irons, MacSlash's chief engineer, was last scene in Cabo San Lucas, still recovering from the ordeal.
Behind the Scenes at MacSlash is an interesting place, working on news stories, working on web graphics campaigns, working on advertising, but best of all, working with readers. Stanfield and Bridge face many issues, day in and day out. They've been shunned by Apple for reporting what the other sites won't say. They've dealt face on with the subject of rumors in the modern Mac press and the dividing line that it creates. They've (embarrassingly) dealt with domain problems. Stanfield and Bridge give you an insight about why they report what they do, why they run a Mac website, and how they do it using Apple hardware and software.
