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==Personal life== ==Personal life==
Malda proposed to longtime girlfriend Kathleen Fent using the front page of Slashdot on February 14th, 2002.<ref name="newsmakers">{{cite book|authors=Avery, Laura; Thomson, Gale|title=Newsmakers: the people behind today's headlines|year=2007|volume=Issue 3|pages=73|isbn=0-7876-8090-7|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=szcTJtwhyGoC&q=slashdot+marriage+proposal&dq=slashdot+marriage+proposal&cd=1|accessdate=February 15, 2010 | publisher=Thomson Gale}}</ref><ref name="proposal">{{cite web|url=http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/14/143254|title=Kathleen Fent Read This Story |last=Malda|first=Rob|date=February 14, 2002|publisher=''Slashdot''|accessdate=February 15, 2010}}</ref> They were married on December 8, 2002, in ].<ref name="hope_college_update">{{cite web|title=News from Hope College|date=February 2003|url=http://www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc/archive/pdf/NFHC_Feb_03.pdf|format=]|accessdate=February 15, 2010}}</ref> Malda proposed to longtime girlfriend Kathleen Fent using the front page of Slashdot on February 14th, 2002.<ref name="newsmakers">{{cite book|authors=Avery, Laura; Thomson, Gale|title=Newsmakers: the people behind today's headlines|year=2007|volume=Issue 3|pages=73|isbn=0-7876-8090-7|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=szcTJtwhyGoC&q=slashdot+marriage+proposal&dq=slashdot+marriage+proposal&cd=1|accessdate=February 15, 2010 | publisher=Thomson Gale}}</ref><ref name="proposal">{{cite web|url=http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/14/143254|title=Kathleen Fent Read This Story |last=Malda|first=Rob|date=February 14, 2002|publisher=''Slashdot''|accessdate=February 15, 2010}}</ref> They were married on December 8, 2002, in ].<ref name="hope_college_update">{{cite web|title=News from Hope College|date=February 2003|url=http://www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc/archive/pdf/NFHC_Feb_03.pdf|format=]|accessdate=February 15, 2010}}</ref>

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Rob Malda
Malda at LinuxWorld Boston 2006
Born (1976-05-10) May 10, 1976 (age 48)
Holland, Michigan, United States
Other namesCmdrTaco
Known forfounder of Slashdot

Rob Malda (born May 10, 1976. in Holland, Michigan, U.S.), also known as CmdrTaco, is founder and former editor-in-chief of the website Slashdot. He is a graduate of Hope College and Holland Christian High School.

In 1997 Rob Malda and Jeff Bates created Slashdot while undergraduates of Hope College. After running the site for two years "on a shoestring", they sold the site to Andover.net, which was later acquired by VA Linux Systems. Malda ran the site out of the SourceForge, Inc. office in Dexter, Michigan.

Rob Malda also wrote a monthly column for Computer Power User. In 2002, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.

On August 25, 2011, Rob Malda announced his resignation from Slashdot. On March 5, 2012, Malda was appointed as Chief Strategist and Editor-at-Large of WaPo Labs, a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company.

Personal life

Malda proposed to longtime girlfriend Kathleen Fent using the front page of Slashdot on February 14th, 2002. They were married on December 8, 2002, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

See also

References

  1. "Attack of the Blogs". Holland Sentinel. September 7, 2004.
  2. "Cmdrtaco on Slashdot Sale". Wired.com. June 29, 1999.
  3. "VA Linux buys Andover.Net". news.com. February 3, 2000.
  4. Kushner, David (2007). "The Slashdot Supremacy". spectrum.ieee.org. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  5. Malda, Rob (October 2009). "The Department of Stuff: Caught In The Web". Computer Power User. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
  6. "2002 Young Innovators Under 35". Technology Review. 2002. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
  7. Malda, Rob. "Rob Malda Resigns from Slashdot". Slashdot. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
  8. "The Washington Post Company's WaPo Labs Hires Rob Malda as Chief Strategist and Editor-at-Large". Business Wire. 2012. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
  9. Newsmakers: the people behind today's headlines. Vol. Issue 3. Thomson Gale. 2007. p. 73. ISBN 0-7876-8090-7. Retrieved February 15, 2010. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help); Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
  10. Malda, Rob (February 14, 2002). "Kathleen Fent Read This Story". Slashdot. Retrieved February 15, 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  11. "News from Hope College" (PDF). February 2003. Retrieved February 15, 2010.

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